Quentin Tarantino: The Man and His Movies

The book is a great read but the pages kept falling out as the pages were turned.

Amazingly written biography on the master of cinematic theft. We all know his films borrow every piece from many 70's exploitation films. But he is doing it so far removed from that time period that people today it feels fresh and new. But I love it anyways. I bought this book for a penny, plus s&h great price but upon receiving the book I got an even sweeter surprise! The book from 1995 after the year of pulp fiction was autographed and the ink was aged, which means I have an autographed book from the beginning of tarantino's career. That makes a book which I paid a total of $4 for is worth over $50. You never know a book from its cover which was aged and faded

I will be glad to review it as soon as I have read it. Still waiting for it to arrive.I'll keep you posted.thank youMihaelasorry for the wrong usage of the rating system before, I am rather new to this.Now the rating has been updated with regards to the book itself. I have enjoyed it, I like the way it is structured and that it does give lots of information.

Very inspiring and interesting perspective on Tarantino. My oldest son is an aspiring writer and movie buff especially in the genre Tarantino focuses on. Well written and gives a better understanding of the man and his background which has made him the genius he is today.

Bought this as a gift for my boyfriend, who is a HUGE Quentin Tarantino. He hasn't put it down, he loves it! Very happy with my purchase.

Must read for a Tarantino fan

Quentin Tarantino the man and his movies, is a great biography, covering the beginning of Tarantino’s career all before Jackie Brown. This biography greatly covers everything that made the main man Tarantino. From writing screenplays at 14 and getting his first film projector and the Great Escape. Going to the theaters in LA with his mom’s boyfriends watching Blaxploitation films. The unhinged writing of Quentin Tarantino’s uprising, stealing Rum Punch from K-mart, faking his resume with King Leer, and learning dialogue from spending time in jail for unpaid parking tickets. Jami Bernard includes great amount of details and stories from his time at Video archives watching Sonny Chiba movies and writing and directing his own film.The biography is almost perfect in the way Jami Bernard had written it, the reporter style, putting interviews of Quentin, his friends, family, and co workers. In this way the reader gets lots of opinions and perspectives of those who had ties with Tarantino. Many of his friends were hurt when he had abandoned them and forgotten favors that he had owed them. Other friends had different perspectives, from watching him hard at work writing screenplays and trying to make connections, didn’t mind as much what seemed was arrogance because they thought he had deserved it. Bernard not only gives details of just dialogue within her interview, she describes the setting in which it was placed, like Tarantino’s apartment whose walls were covered in movie posters and movie memorabilia, or John Travolta's apartment which was coincidentally Tarantino’s first apartment.The author of this biography obviously goes well beyond bleak questions and really pulls out to ask great questions that lead to interesting answers. Although receiving nice and some rather bad opinions , and stories on Tarantino she still remains unbiased throughout the book. At some places within the book I felt some information and bits and pieces were not under the right sections of the book which were organized in order by each one of Tarantino’s screenplays and movies, which although may be difficult due to the writing of one screenplay during another or during a filming of a movie. With many great details, there were many more that I felt a bit unnecessary or too specific, that went on making the book a bit bland at certain points. Despite littler issues like few organizational errors and a few things a bit overdone, Quentin Tarantino the Man and his Movies is still a great biography, with lots of very interesting bits and pieces.

This book is a must-read for every true Tarantino fan.Jamie Bernard's book is simply amazing. It covers Tarantino's life from childhood till about 1996. The book is well-written, and goes deep into detail and uncovers Tarantino's life as hyperactive kid, movie theater regular, fatherless child and genius moviemaker. This is the single best book ever written about Quentin Tarantino. No other book delivers such great information, biographical facts and stories about the making of his early movies and involvements in projects. If you want to read a good book about Tarantino, get this one first. It's the best!trust me on this...

This is a very well written book and a joy to read. I would love an updated version with more of Q's films as this was released in 1995 and gives a view up to Pulp Fiction and the Fame that film brought, but the information you get of Quentin's youth and the time before his fame is fantastic.

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