Silver Screen Fiend: Learning About Life from an Addiction to Film Audiobook (Free)

The instant New York Times bestseller from author, comedian and actor Patton Oswalt, a “heartfelt and hilarious” (USA TODAY) memoir about coming of age like a performer during the past due 1990s while obsessively watching classic films at a legendary theater in Los Angeles. “[Oswalt provides] a couple of synapses just like a pinball machine and a prose style to match” (The New York Moments).

Between 1995 and 1999, Patton Oswalt lived with an unshakable addiction. It wasn’t medications, alcoholic beverages, or sex: it was film..READING MORE about BIG SCREEN Fiend: STUDYING Life from an Dependence on Film After moving to Los Angeles, Oswalt became a huge film buff (or while he calls it, a sprocket fiend), absorbing classics, cult strikes, and new releases at the popular New Beverly Cinema. Big screen celluloid became Patton’s life schoolbook, informing his notion of acting, writing, comedy, and relationships.

Set in the nascent days of LA’s alternative comedy scene, BIG SCREEN Fiend chronicles Oswalt’s journey from fledgling stand-up comedian to self-assured sitcom actor, using the colorful New Beverly collective and a solid of now-notable young comedians supporting him all on the way. “Clever and readable…Oswalt’s encyclopedic knowledge and frothing enthusiasm for movies (from sleek noir classics, to gory B movies, to cliché-riddled independents, to big vacant blockbusters) is relentlessly present, whirring in the background just like a projector” (The Boston Globe). More than a memoir, this is “a love song towards the big screen” (Paste Magazine).