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(More customer reviews)'The Bones' is such a good read that I would extend my workouts just to get one more chapter in. Seth Greenland has given us an exquisite and deeply observed novel of Hollywood, with - I might add - a distinctly non-Hollywood ending. There's definitely no "Come Lift Us Up Where We Belong" feel-good ending here. Frank wants a taste of what Lloyd has; Lloyd wants a taste of what Frank has; and - when both get it - the results aren't pretty.
I suspect industry insiders will have a field day drawing the lines between Greenland's fictional protagonists and their real world equivalents. Even an outsider like can me draw some reasonable guesses, like Sethland's management duo of Robert Hyler and Jolly De Meo seeming an awful lot like Brad Grey and Bernie Brillstein. And the none-too-sharp Bart Pimento sounds quite a bit like Jennifer Aniston's ex.
For me though, the best parts are Sethland's streams-of-consciousness from inside the mind of the tortured scribe Lloyd Melnick; these are simply brilliant pieces where random, jumbled, increasingly frenetic and detached thoughts simply come flying in and rapidly out of Melnick's confused brain. To quote any of it here would be to give away key parts of the story.
The writing here is tight and spellbinding. No wonder David Mamet had picked up the rights to it. It's got a Mamet-like intensity and cadence to it. It seems like the project is hung up a bit right now (according to what I can glean from reports on the Internet). Let's hope 'The Bones' can make it to the screen, because I think it would translate beautifully.
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