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Bright Shiny Morning | 
 enlarge | Authors: Frey, James
Creator: Read By: To Be Announced
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc.
Category: Book
List Price: $110.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  126 reviews
Sales Rank: 4332484
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Unabridged
Number Of Items: 11
Pages: 12
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.4 x 6.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 1433247445
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781433247446
ASIN: 1433247445
Publication Date: May 1, 2008
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Product Description
This sweeping, kaleidoscopic portrait of Los Angeles captures the divided soul of that city through vivid stories of its diverse inhabitants, each living on the fault line between hope and oblivion.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 121 more reviews...
 A very powerful book! October 9, 2008
I must admit, when I first started reading it, I thought, " What's with the run-on sentences. Will this be some 'arty' attempt at writing?". It turned out to be one of the best books I've read in awhile (and I usually read 3 per week). I have not read the other reviews, and I'm sure others have covered the story details. The book will be most appreciated by people who are sensitive to other people's feelings, hopes, and dreams. Of all the charactors, only one is a "villan". Reading this makes me not want to visit LA again, far less LIVE there.
Wonderfully Different September 21, 2008
I was at first taken aback by the unusual writing style and the fact that the story seemed to jump around, but soon grew comfortable and found that the book flowed beautifully for me. The author skillfully weaves the history of Los Angeles with the lives of a variety of current-day residents. I highly recommend this book.
Good read, page turner September 19, 2008
Nice surprise, very good book, interesting look at the lives of street people or stars in LA.
TZ
I still like James September 15, 2008
i have long waited for james new book after reading his 'memoir' the million pieces and leonard book. it's a very different thing but i still like it
it's about LA, i can see there are lots of research and ground work done
but...it's the message it's bringing out touches me still
colors, races, dreams, destruction, lust, obsession, love, abuse, violence...which cities do not have these elements, but LA seeems to have an exagerrating amount of these adding all up
james bring it to our attention and in a very vivid way
he is so good at bringing us VIVID pictures through words
i want to read his 4th books
 A Dull Pennysworth of Cliches September 13, 2008
Frey is yet another easterner--Cleveland born, NYC resident--who finds the need to tell us Angelinos what we're about. Only he's brought nothing new to the party. Some reviewers have already pointed out the most egregious cliches. But the worst of them are not only cliched, but essentially false. E.g., a transplanted New Yorker brought west to run an art gallery is run over crossing the street by an MTA bus because the driver "wasn't used to seeing pedestrians". When we lived in Hollywood, my wife worked in the North Valley and had to use our only car. I walked. All over. I even used public trans(!). Never got run over. Not even close. One of the first things drivers in Cali are taught is that pedestrians *always* have the right of way, crosswalk or no.
I've lived for the past 15 years in NYC. Here I've come a lot, lot closer to getting run down, both as pedestrian and bicyclist (in fact I got hit twice while bicycling). Pedestrians have a far, far more problematic relationship with motorists than in LA.
Another point of contention is that hoariest of assertions: "It calls. It calls. It calls!"
Really?
How 'bout NYC? It calls (I run into a tankload of Angelinos and other Californians here). So does Chicago. So does any major metropolitan center. Frey is just showing off his regionalism here.
Other points that may seem niggling demonstrate disrespect for basic facts: e.g. according to Frey you can buy a handgun one day and pick it up the next in LA. That's not true. There's been a 14 day waiting period for handgun purchases in California since shortly after RFK's murder.
Frey's style is interesting, but he has yet to master the minimalist punctuation the way Cormac McCarthy has. In Morning it's more of a nuisance than a means of improving flow.
Andy
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