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Offline Michael Hardner

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Sean Penn wrote a book
« on: April 03, 2018, 06:06:11 am »
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/what-is-sean-penn-thinking-his-debut-novel-is-a-mess-again/2018/03/26/d3c2059a-30ff-11e8-8bdd-cdb33a5eef83_story.html?utm_term=.b7c6661ecd59

Sean Penn has given up films, which is too bad as he is a brilliant actor.  Actors, like a lot of specialists, can be brilliant in their field and it seems to confuse them as to their general intelligence.   The reviews for his novel are pretty much all negative, but he has overexposed himself in the publicity for it.  This makes me wonder if we're going to see a new era of Penn exposure, but not as an actor - as an annoying gadfly.

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Re: Sean Penn wrote a book
« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2018, 09:38:52 am »
Missed opportunity:

Sean Penn penned a novel
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Offline Squidward von Squidderson

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Re: Sean Penn wrote a book
« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2018, 11:45:29 am »
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The reviews for his novel are pretty much all negative....

Really?  Based on what?

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“Charmingly weird…Penn takes on an ambitious challenge here, and he succeeds spectacularly.  Bob is a wonderful character, the kind of guy you can’t take your eyes off… that’s part of the book’s almost immeasurable charm.” (Booklist (starred review))

“Penn paints with a broadly satirical, Vonnegut-ian brush. . . . he gives nods (by way of sly footnotes) to the likes of David Foster Wallace and Thomas Pynchon. . . . It’s good fun [and] a provocative debut.”    (Kirkus Reviews)

“It seems wrong to say that so dystopian a novel is great fun to read, but it’s true. I suspect that Thomas Pynchon and Hunter S. Thompson would love this book."    (Salman Rushdie)

USA Today didn’t pan it.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2018/03/27/sean-penns-freaky-debut-novel-bob-honey-trump-era-satire/454004002/

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Offline Michael Hardner

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Re: Sean Penn wrote a book
« Reply #3 on: April 03, 2018, 02:54:37 pm »
https://www.google.ca/search?q=sean+penn+novel+bob+review&oq=sean+&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j69i59j69i60l3.2739j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

First two pages doesn't produce a single positive headline, but does produce:

Sean Penn's debut novel ripped apart by critics ...

Sean Penn's debut novel – repellent and stupid on so many levels ...

If the critics are right, maybe Sean Penn should stick to acting

Critics are really slating Sean Penn's Trump-baiting new novel 

Sean Penn's new novel doesn't deserve a considerate review — or a ...

Review: What is Sean Penn thinking? His debut novel is a mess ...



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Re: Sean Penn wrote a book
« Reply #4 on: April 03, 2018, 03:39:43 pm »
Sean Penn is a good actor and I like his politics but I can't get passed his woman-beating to say I actually like him.  I saw a couple of interviews where he's plugging his book and he looks like he's losing his mind the older he gets.  He's almost incoherent and seems like he's nursing a bad hangover all the time, which probably isn't too far from the truth. 

Shame, he was so cute as Spacoli and he was great in both Milk and Mystic River.

Offline Michael Hardner

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Re: Sean Penn wrote a book
« Reply #5 on: April 03, 2018, 04:04:44 pm »
Sean Penn is a good actor and I like his politics but I can't get passed his woman-beating to say I actually like him. 

What ? 

AP reported that Madonna dropped charges against him but "in 2015 Madonna stated the allegations were "completely outrageous, malicious, reckless, and false”"

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Re: Sean Penn wrote a book
« Reply #6 on: April 03, 2018, 04:07:29 pm »
What ? 

AP reported that Madonna dropped charges against him but "in 2015 Madonna stated the allegations were "completely outrageous, malicious, reckless, and false”"

Sounds like you are saying Madonna contradicted herself quite vehemently.

Offline Michael Hardner

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Re: Sean Penn wrote a book
« Reply #7 on: April 03, 2018, 05:02:31 pm »
Sounds like you are saying Madonna contradicted herself quite vehemently.

There's no back-up to the AP story.

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Re: Sean Penn wrote a book
« Reply #8 on: April 03, 2018, 06:45:44 pm »
What ? 

AP reported that Madonna dropped charges against him but "in 2015 Madonna stated the allegations were "completely outrageous, malicious, reckless, and false”"

I thought he hit Robin Wright too.  Not true?


Offline Michael Hardner

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Re: Sean Penn wrote a book
« Reply #9 on: April 03, 2018, 09:39:49 pm »
I never heard that either.