Review: Force Majeure
Editorial Review - Kirkus ReviewsSmashing debut novel in which screenwriter Bud Wiggin, a Thomas Wolfe for failed screenwriters, seems to be a stand-in for author Wagner--screenwriter of the stupid but successful Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills and Nightmare on Elm Street 3. Wiggin never achieves Wagner's modest triumphs, however: his scripts only blacken his standing in the Business. Force Majeure novelizes some high-class short stories about Wiggin that struck loving chords in Hollywood when published earlier: they join here with compelling density into one large arc of characterization as Bud falls from failure to total moral disaster. The episodes trace his horror story from script to floppo script, each chapter giving him one large??
Review: Force Majeure
User Review - August - Goodreadspretty far-out rendering of the classic american hack screenwriter in LA book. you'll laugh and you'll cringe Read full review
Review: Force Majeure
User Review - Johnny Story - GoodreadsIt's a story about a screenwriter so naturally I rooted for the main character, Bud Wiggins. It starts funny. Plenty happens in the story. But what I feared most would happen, happens. Long tangents ... Read full review
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User Review - Fiasco - GoodreadsI really loved this book, and that's a rarity for me since I don't have the stomach for fiction anymore. Wagner's writing blew me away, and the story....incredible. Just one of those rare books that clicked for me and I couldn't stop reading. Like I said, a rarity. Read full review
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User Review - Donna - GoodreadsShane is brilliant but naive. He develops a program to generate tornado force winds and fails to recognize the weapon potential of the program. He quits when he learns that a black op government ... Read full review
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User Review - Sparky - GoodreadsLimited issue paperback was the most evil little collection of short stories I've read since the Pat Hobby Stories. Amazing stuff. Read full review
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User Review - J Frank Parnell - Goodreadsfunny as hell Read full review
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User Review - Kip Conlon - GoodreadsThis book's crazy as hell. I found it again for two bucks in a salvation army, it is the best money I have spent in my life. Read full review
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User Review - Charles - GoodreadsThis was my first encounter with one of my favorite authors. It's a disturbing book, and it's not fully realized as are Wagner's other novels. I believe that the individual parts of the novel were ... Read full review
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User Review - Jeff - GoodreadsI have very fond memories of reading this challenging and difficult novel, though I don't remember it very well (it has been nearly a couple of decades). I like novels of Hollywood and this is ... Read full review
