This is a book by Bruce Campbell from the Evil Dead/Army of Darkness movies as well as Brisco County Jr. and the Hercules and Xena tv shows.
I really liked the evil dead movies, Brisco County Jr. and (somewhat embarrassingly) the Hercules TV show.
Campbell is a great actor, who really shines playing kind of “hammy” roles, and he’s a really funny guy to boot.
I ended up picking up the book when I was back home for a month last year, because I’m starting to run out of things to read and the selection of English books available in the general Japanese bookstore isn’t all that great (99% of my book shopping here ends up being through Amazon.com, but it’s not as easy to “stumble on” something new that might be interesting), so when I go home I end up picking up anything that seems like it might be even remotely interesting.
So I bought this book. Turns out it is mostly about making movies and TV shows, and being an actor (not surprising for an actor’s autobiography I suppose), and I am not at all interested in making movies or being an actor, but this was a really well written and entertaining book. Campbell is a really funny guy, and he managed to make aspects of the movie business that I normally couldn’t care less about seem interesting.
One of the very rare books that has actually managed to get me to laugh out loud.
