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THE SIMPSONS: AN UNCENSORED, UNAUTHORIZED HISTORY PDF, EPUB, EBOOK John Ortved | 332 pages | 12 Oct 2010 | FABER & FABER | 9780865479395 | English | New York, NY, United States The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History PDF Book Ortved is talking about how the a John Ortved is an atrocious author. John Ortved is an atrocious author. Welcome back. Producers of the show, including Groening, Brooks and Simon, chose not to cooperate in the project. Other editions. Petersburg Times. Italiano Edit links. When it premiered in , the enthusiastic reaction to its subversive humor was instantaneous. I stopped halfway thru Community Reviews. Douglas Coupland has also worked on a magazine called Wired. Trust me. To ask other readers questions about The Simpsons , please sign up. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. The real issue is that the author makes frequent errors and odd judgm I learned plenty from reading this, especially about the myriad power struggles involved with getting the show on the air and its development into the incredible s institution it became, not to mention relative contributions of James L. His writing is also simply awkward or difficult to understand at times. The story of TV's longest-running sitcom and the characters who created it, marking twenty years on the air. Friend Reviews. May 10, Steven Yenzer rated it liked it. Even if you are mostly trying to focus on the golden years, those are some important people to talk to. I had always been a big Simpsons fan since they were first on Tracey Ullman. Breaking: Titmouse Vancouver becomes first Canadian animation studio to unionize. The latter method, along with the insane page length, made for a boring read desperately in need of an editor. Its inception was a process, and it has more than one parent as well as stepparents, grandparents, creepy uncles, and ungrateful children. And YES, there is a chapter focusing on Conan's contribution to the show. It lost its soul and went from being about an idiot who loves his family even though he's an idiot to being about an idiot who is an idiot and does things that are idiotic irrespective of his family. Bryan Appleyard of The Sunday Times criticized the format of the book, writing that it was "alternately engrossing and infuriating book [ The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History Writer Would definitely recommend for any fans of the Simpsons or animation history. Enjoyed some chapters, not all. Contrary to popular belief, The Simpsons did not spring out of one man's brain, fully formed, like a hilarious Athena. He places quotes with no questions and usually no dates attached in a particular order and manner as if to create conflict and argument between "speakers" when such differing of opinion may or may not exist. No one gets as successful as Brooks in Hollywood without making enemies, but people carry a special dislike for the man whose power and smart media control has managed to project an image of an avuncular, loveable neurotic for the better part of 50 years. Though the last third of the book is hijacked a bit by Ortveds outspoken frustration with the steady decline in quality of the show since the end of the nineties. Still, it's great to read eyewitness accounts about th This never-dull oral history of The Simpsons is also slightly repetitive and loses steam about halfway through. It is the work of love of a fan who is trying to explain how lightning was captured in a bottle and the focus can be on the overall story, with varying amounts of attention paid to the details. Brooks, and legendary writer and setter-of- Simpsons -tone George Meyer. There is a lot of insider information. I ruined it for myself when I mimicked Bart's repeated sing-song use of the word "bastard" in reference to his newly discovered uncle. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted illegally. Formulating the 'storyline" and putting contributors comments in context works. I love all three. Archived from the original on Ortved decided to write the book as an oral history because he found that every person interviewed had a different perspective on the events. The bride may or may not be done with medical school. There is no objective voice in this book. Namespaces Article Talk. Out of 8. If you're interested in a sometimes repetitive but ultimately informative history of one of the greatest shows in television history, John Ortved's book is hard to beat. What you hear will likely be out of context, sometimes probably even incorrect, contradictory. But something terrible happened to The Simpsons after 8 or 9 years. I could do without some of the dumb stats, laundry list of awards, financial info on Fox, salary negotioations, etc. After listening to his gossip and jabs mixed in with events, I wouldn't recommend. The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History Reviews I plan to show this one to my students as another reason why they shouldn't place all their trust in spellcheck. He also completed a two-year course in Japanese business science in Hawaii in Out of 8. I took my time with this, reading it in This was a challenging book to read because most of it wasn't in the author's voice although there were passages in it that were his , but rather quotes from the various personalities involved with The Simpsons TV show. The content consists mostly of quotations from various figures, which are tied together by comments from Ortved. Ortved did interview a number of sources for the book, including Hank Azaria , a cast member of the show since the second season, Fox Broadcasting Company owner Rupert Murdoch and former writer Conan O'Brien. Apr 06, Thomas rated it liked it. Archived from the original on November 18, Mar 20, Bill Conrad rated it really liked it. Comedy on The Simpsons often came from the reaction of the characters in exchanges of dialogue, or in layered, subtle jokes-the humor was no longer as simple to animate as a coyote falling off a cliff. I had always been a big Simpsons fan since they were first on Tracey Ullman. It was like an old friend who'd had a stroke and the empathy part of their brain had got cooked. Early in the book, Ortved includes quotes by people who have negative things to say about Groening and others who've worked on the show, which in itself is not problematic. It wasn't worth my time and I wouldn't even recommend to someone who liked I stopped watching the show years ago or still likes the show. Jul 20, Denise Du Vernay rated it did not like it. Readers also enjoyed. Trust me. The subject deserves better than this. You'll zip through it. Community Reviews. He lives in New York City. For all the reader knows, the words could have been uttered by the speakers ten minutes or ten years apart. So much of this is about the backstage jockeying -- or credit, for money -- and not the actual show. The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History Read Online See Magazine. Dec 29, Jeff Talbott rated it liked it. I think this would appeal even to people who had no specific interest in the Simpsons but wondered how television shows were made, but it is definitely a no-brainer for fans of the TV show. Took a few chapters to get into it; definitely see some of the author's opinion showing through in places a bit too obviously, but I like how it's a collection of "from the mouth of" sources, and shows especially how malleable and fickle memory can be when recalling events and situations. With all of the VHS tapes I had acquired over the years, I started to record each of the episodes airing twice a night, taking care not to get any repeats. The Conan years. The latter method, along with the insane page length, made for a boring read desperately in need of an editor. But unfortunately this is also the case of a page book that's been padded out to pages for commercial purposes, which really drags the manuscript down during these sometimes giant sections; just to cite one example, there's an entire chapter here on the various other prime-time cartoons that have been green-lighted over the years because of The Simpsons ' success, which frankly I could've cared less about. Brooks refused to cooperate with him for the book:. During the rare week or two that I would be grounded, I made sure to give an annoyed friend a tape and tell them which of the two episodes each night they needed to get for me, giving specific instructions to skip the commercials. With the Unauthorized Historian of 'The Simpsons ' ". Oct 10, Alex Marriott rated it really liked it. I also take issue with Ortved talking about the "golden age" of The Simpsons the seasons they were at their prime as if it's fact that there actually was one. May 10, Steven Yenzer rated it liked it. That, alone, was considered really funny. For all the reader knows, the quotes were unsolicited rants or grudging responses to leading questions. OK, enough. Several critics felt that the final chapters, in which Ortved gives his opinion of the current state of the show, were out of place when compared with the rest of the book.

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