Reviews for Pay or Play

The average rating for Pay or Play based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-02-20 00:00:00 Bernd Nitsche Well, I wrote it, so it's five stars in my book of life. My first novel, after much film-making and screenwriting, a humbling and a thrilling experience. I tried to capture what pushed people like me into the movies, and how that shaped our lives, for better and for worse; the nutty nobility, and sometimes the tragedy, of putting movies first. Inspired by Waugh's comic skewering of journalism, Scoop. I like to think it inspired Tropic Thunder, which came out after, and also concerns an action hero who goes native on a jungle shoot, but who knows?

Review # 2 was written on 2020-02-20 00:00:00 Judson Spangler I picked this book up for .25 at the YMCA monthly book sale and it has been the "fast food novel" I carried to read in scattered bits of downtime at work. Flimsy characters, a scattered story, and the occasional poorly developed sex scene. But, it's amusing enough and takes more than a few good jabs at Hollywood as an industry. So, a good "fast food" option. It has no real value but it fills a void when you have no other options or motivation.