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Barefoot in the City of Broken Dreams
- Narrated by: Josh Hurley
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
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Summary
"There was no way moving to Los Angeles was going to make me give up my soul. After all, I'd already seen all the movies about Hollywood. I knew how things worked."
Twenty-four-year-old Russel Middebrook and his boyfriend have moved to Los Angeles so Russel can try to make it as a screenwriter.
Almost right away, in a forgotten old house off of Sunset Boulevard, Russel meets Isaac Brander - a once-famous film producer who is convinced he can turn Russel's screenplay into a movie.
Russel knows that success can't possibly come this easy. After all, most of Russel's Los Angeles friends are so desperate to make it that it's downright scary. His ex-boyfriend, Otto, is trying everything to become an actor, and Daniel, the sexy neighbor, doesn't even need a casting couch to get naked.
So what's the catch with Mr. Brander? Could it be that movies about Hollywood don't tell the whole truth? But what does that mean for Russel's soul?
Barefoot in the City of Broken Dreams, a companion book to Brent Hartinger's The Thing I Didn't Know I Didn't Know, is a fast-paced, funny story about the price of fame in Hollywood: the hilarious lengths people will go to achieve it, and the touching secret to survival when things don't work out exactly as planned.
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- Richard Hardy
- 01-12-22
Great story
lovely story enjoyed all of it bring on more of these type of episodes loved it.
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- Hemmel M.
- 10-07-22
Not my usual choice of story
Knowing this was a story about Russel finding his way, with sometimes a scene about his relationship, changed my perspective. I liked the occurrences and rounded secondary characters.
The audio was mediocre. In the beginning I could hear wich sentences were later added corrections and the voices were not always right.
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- Wren Vale
- 04-01-23
Refreshing and entertaining
I love the way Hartinger makes you think about random things you’ve never considered. And also drops in random fascinating facts. All this alongside a great story.
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- Greg
- 02-03-23
Good story about making it in Hollywood
If you like behind the scenes,before a movie and script comes to light. This is the book for you. A love story showing that all the hard work you put in to keep a relationship together can work out in the end.
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- Barry Winters
- 14-02-23
another good delivery
what I like about this is the very believable story telling of the lads adventures in LA, although I've never been there. But us described in a manner that reinforces the images and stories from other art that I have ofbtge place. it also has its fair share of good gay eroticism and the prejudice that I do have knowledge of. All together it is an enjoyable journey in which the main protagonist narrative explains well. Worth a read as it follows on from the first book and encourages me towards the third.
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