Chuck Barris
Paperback | Pages: 256 pages Rating: 3.69 | 1430 Users | 126 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Confessions of a Dangerous Mind |
| ISBN: | 0786888083 (ISBN13: 9780786888085) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Confessions of a Dangerous Mind #1 |
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Suspense, excess, danger, and exuberant fun come together in Chuck Barris's unlikely autobiography- the tale of a wildly amboyant '70s television producer nationally known as the host of The Gong Show. What most people don't know is that Barris also spent close to two decades as a decorated covert assassin for the CIA, claiming to have killed over thirty people. Honestly. Barris, who achieved tremendous success as the creator of the hit game shows The Dating Game and The Newlywed Game, joined the CIA as an agent in the early 1960s. He inltrated the Civil Rights movement, met with militant Muslims in Harlem, and was sent abroad to kill enemies of the American state, even as his game shows began to soar to ratings success. Originally published in 1982, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind has been out of print for a number of years, but interest in Barris is about to reach an all-time high, with a major movie based on the book coming from Miramax Films in December 2002. The all-star cast includes Sam Rockwell, Julia Roberts, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, and Drew Barrymore. Barris will be covered extensively in the media this fall. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind is a wild and improbable tale spiced with intrigue, sex, bad behavior, and plenty of one-liners.Details Of Books Confessions of a Dangerous Mind: An Unauthorized Autobiography (Confessions of a Dangerous Mind #1)
| Title | : | Confessions of a Dangerous Mind: An Unauthorized Autobiography (Confessions of a Dangerous Mind #1) |
| Author | : | Chuck Barris |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 256 pages |
| Published | : | November 27th 2002 by Miramax Books (first published 1984) |
| Categories | : | Biography. Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir |
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Ratings: 3.69 From 1430 Users | 126 ReviewsRate Of Books Confessions of a Dangerous Mind: An Unauthorized Autobiography (Confessions of a Dangerous Mind #1)
Side-splittingly hilarious. Whether any of it is true or not is really of no consequence: the book is worth the read. Actually, screw that, you HAVE to read this book. The one-liners alone are more than worth it. It's refreshing and gives you a really interesting bit of insight into a time period and (especially) individual that we of the later generations view with a sort of sepia-tinted nostalgically hokey glow. Barris writes with a raunchy punch and his brazenly honest confessions make himI listened to this book on tape, not sure if I caught everything but what I remembered from the movie filled in the gaps. Sad that he passed this year, I hope he felt like he lived a full life.
WHAT. THE. FLIP. IS. THIS. BOOK?I was reading it as a straight autobiography, and was even willing to believe his CIA stories, but then it got so over-the-top spy-novel crazy and INCREDIBLY sexist and cartoony, that I stopped believing.Imaginative writer, but hard to get past all the chauvinism and crassness.
Im not even sure how to describe this sort-of autobiography by The Gong Shows Chuck Barris. It seems it is more of an imagined, if I had joined the CIA...what would my life have been like, book. That being said, this is a misogynistic, sexist, derogatory rant from an insecure, self-involved, misunderstood sleazeball with a soft heart. It had parts that were truly funny. I did laugh out loud. I also wanted to punch him a lot.
Take a wild ride from Palisades Park to the Gong Show with this creative genius and CIA agent? The book that inspired the movie directed by George Clooney
A great tall tale. I almost believed him... until I read the sequel Bad Grass Never Dies.
Ladies and gentlemen...I'd like to introduce to you Mr. Chuck Barris, ladies and gentlemen: pop-song one-hit wonder writer, lothario, creator of numerous hit TV game shows, host of the skewed variety show The Gong Show, wearer of many goofy hats, living national joke, and...according to this debatable tell-all from the 70's, also a government hit-man. Written so conversationally, constructed so flawlessly - at the time it was first published this fantastical yarn couldn't be proven nor
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