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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. 2.5 stars. I don't know why I thought I should listen to this. Memoir tends to be easy and light, and sometimes I just need that. But I never watched Breaking Bad or much of anything else Cranson's been in. I imagine for someone who is into Breaking Bad, this would be OK. I just didn't find it super interesting. This is a difficult one for me. When I was notified that A Life in Parts was available to download*, I jumped around excited to read this one. Would it be a tell all? Would there be tons of behind the scenes stories about Breaking Bad, Malcolm in the Middle, or Seinfeld? Would it be part his life, but more story? What was this book going to be? Cranston wrote a wonderful book. It is insightful, one learns about the rough beginnings of his life, how he hustled and grew up quickly, and the many parts he has had to play in his life. This is where the difficulty comes in. Each "part" is only a few pages long (ebook version) and he treats one equally. His story on how he got the part to play a Mars bars spokesman got almost as many pages as how he got the part to be on Malcolm in the Middle or Seinfeld. Walter White gets a bit more, but not much more. I kept sensing there was more story out there, but the focus of this book is more about the role itself and how to play it, rather than behind the scene stories. It is more about the acting method he has and less personal stories about the actual role. This was a bit disappointing as a reader, ever though the story he is telling is a good one. If I were an actor, I would probably enjoy this a lot more, but I am a pastor who is a fan of Cranston and I was looking for a different book, I think. I would say that if you want to get a taste of what it is like, jump to the chapter on Seinfeld, rather than reading from the beginning (although the opening is a great opening), and just read those 3 pages or so. That is what the book is like. If you enjoy it, then you will love the rest. If you were like me saying- wait, that's it? You might not like it as much. Here is your Amazon link- A Life in Parts by Bryan Cranston *I want to thank Edelweiss and Scribner for the opportunity to read this book early. I received it for free in exchange for an honest review. Years ago, first with 'Malcolm in the Middle' then later 'Broken Bad', I became a huge fan of Bryan Cranston. Listening to the audio version of this book, I became an admirer of so much more than his acting abilities. I never once lost my interest in his story, in part because Cranston uses his voice like an instrument, cultivating highs and lows that keep listeners engaged. He gives an honest and humble account of his life, taking readers from his early upbringing in a somewhat dysfunctional family to his present celebrity status. I learned much about the acting life, about the ups and downs of employment, its competitive nature, and how Cranston's risk-taking outlook, professionalism and capabilities make him a much sought-after performer. Definitely, this is a book worthy of several hours of reading or listening. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML:Winner of the 2017 Audie Award for Narration by the Author "Nothing short of riveting...an engrossing first-person account by one of our finest actors" (Huffington Post)??both a coming-of-age story and a meditation on creativity, devotion, and craft??Bryan Cranston, beloved and acclaimed star of one of history's most successful TV shows, Breaking Bad. Bryan Cranston began his acting career at the age of seven, when his father, a struggling actor and sometime director, cast him in a commercial for United Way. By fifth grade he was starring in the school play, spending hours at the local movie theater, and re-enacting favorite scenes with his brother in their living room. Cranston seemed destined to be an actor. But then his father left. And his family fell apart. Troubled by his father's missteps, Cranston abandoned his acting aspirations and resolved to pursue a steadier career in law enforcement. Then, on a two-year cross-country motorcycle journey, Cranston re-discovered his talent for acting and found his mission and his calling. In this "must-read memoir" (The Philadelphia Inquirer), Cranston traces the many roles he inhabited throughout his remarkable life, both on and off screen. For the first time he shares the story of his early years as an actor on the soap opera Loving, his recurring spots on Seinfeld, and his time as bumbling father Hal on Malcolm in the Middle, to his tour-de-force, Tony-winning performance as Lyndon Baines Johnson in Broadway's All the Way, to his most iconic role of all: Breaking Bad's Walter White. "An illuminating window into the actor's psyche" (People), Cranston has much to say about creativity, devotion, and craft, as well as innate talent and its challenges and benefits and proper maintenance. "By turns gritty, funny, and sad" (Entertainment Weekly), ultimately A Life in Parts is a story about the joy, the necessity, and the transformative power of simple hard No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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