Reviews for Gold Coins of the Dahlonega Mint, 1838-1861 A Numismatic History & Analysis

The average rating for Gold Coins of the Dahlonega Mint, 1838-1861 A Numismatic History & Analysis based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-01-06 00:00:00 Joan Redfield I think this book would have been more helpful with more than just the small handful of excerpts from scripts as examples. I guess the licensing of more scripts would have made this book a lot more expensive though, so there aren't many script pages in here. But this is ultimately a book about overall structure of the screenwriting form of storytelling. I found that the second section of the book, which deals with Character rather than Structure actually falls a bit flat and continues along a structural analysis rather than one of character. As a companion book to something like McKee's Story, this book reinforces structural analysis of films to see why the formula of screenwriting works. It also investigates where the rules are broken and how that worked for certain stories. I would recommend this book to someone who has already read a bit about screenplay structure and wants solid examples from actual films.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-09-04 00:00:00 Jeffrey Schneider Solid read on the architecture of screenwriting, breaking down 25 scripts (half hits, half flops) in terms of both structure and characterization. I appreciated the hand drawn charts the most, as well as the author’s strong personal opinions — even when I disagreed with them (as with The Abyss), I appreciated that he didn’t sugarcoat his opinions. I appreciated too, on a deeper scriptural level, the reinforcement of why, for example, despite an amazing twist ending, I always felt like The Usual Suspects didn’t work. Or why The Verdict always came off so grittily authentic. Particularly powerful is the chapter on Casablanca, confirming its perfection on every level (despite the chaos of its creation). What keeps this book from a higher rating is that it a) get repetitive because b) some of these films aren’t given equal page time or the flaws mimic other films already covered. Made me want to read The Devil’s Candy about the making of that most notorious of flops, The Bonfire Of The Vanities.