John Beahan

Strange and confusing

Revisado: 05-04-22

I am not clear what this book is really about. In the beginning, it is telling the story of a young woman who vanished, at another point, it talks about Japanese culture, and at another point, it talks about the dark behavior of a twisted individual and trying to understand that individual. it also digresses into a strange defense of the behavior of the father of the victim, which I found very annoying and somewhat confusing. None of this relates to the title, which in my opinion says absolutely nothing about the book. I kept waiting for him to explain the title or have some revelation of how the title has meaning to the story and in the end, he waxes unpoetically about what he thinks the meaning of the title is and I am left dangling in annoyance as to an understanding. In my opinion, It is over-written and full of pontifications that blur the intention of the book, and overall it lacks focus.

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Despite rambling still great investigative journal

Revisado: 04-09-21

I am not sure most would be willing to get through the rambling account of his investigative journey but there are some powerful revelations in this book. It reminds of the cliche journalism critique about burying the lead as the real great parts seemed buried under his commentary about his laborious and frustrating process investigating the story. He spends way too much time defending his process because there is no conclusive evidence but there are some pretty damning pieces that makes a compelling argument that the story we have been told about the Manson family is erroneous at best and laden with conspiratorial ovettones that begs further inquiry. It made me want more but leaves more questions than answers. At times I wished he would have gotten to the point much quicker but I am glad I persevered to the end.

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Great insight into acting Shakespeare on stage

Revisado: 02-11-21

I wanted to read this hoping to get a glimpse of what it would be like acting in Shakespeare production on Broadway. To that end the book fulfilled my expectations. Also Ethan Hawke was a joy to listen to and I image hearing him read is a different experience than reading the novel but I felt the book had real life with his reading. The story left me longing a little and the second half just felt like a bunch of people giving an anonymous actor advice which I found annoying. I wanted more understanding of the protagonist and I didn't really get that like his relationship with his father at the end felt lacking in detail and I wish I had more detail about the marriage itself, which was sparse and left me with more questions. Overall I would recommend it to anyone interested in the experience of acting on stage and the story critic feels minor to the real insight the book offers to art of acting itself.

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