This book was recommended very strongly to me by Jimmy, who is out in Hollywood making movies...after I had already bought it, read it, and not been super impressed by it. Rereading it on the strength of Jim's recommendation, the information within is useful; this is nuts and bolts, no bullshit, no artsy fartsy nonsense on the beauty of writing, REAL information on writing your screenplay. It's good for that. It's laid out in a logical way, he tells you what you should be doing and expects you to be writing as your reading.

I think part of my initial "blah" reaction to the book is that the script the author writes as he talks sounds absolutely HORRIBLE. Not only that, all the examples of his past work that he uses sound mind-blowingly bad. That's probably not a fair judgement, but it explains my initial reaction.

Not better than "STORY", but very good nonetheless. ( )