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The Billy Bob Tapes: A Cave Full Of Ghosts (2012)

by Billy Bob Thornton(Favorite Author)

3.65 of 5 Votes: 1

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

William Morrow

review 1: I've always admired Billy Bob Thornton as an actor. He's not your typical run-of-the-mill Hollywood star, and I like that about him, too.This book is a collection of talks between Thornton and several of his friends. It's like sitting out on the porch on a weekend afternoon, listening to your uncle or cousin telling stories that may or may not be true but are important just the same.I learned more about Thornton and some of my favorite movies from this book than from a million press releases. It's all here -- Angelina Jolie, Bad Santa, Sling Blade, his many years as a musician, his psychic mother, his various relatives and friends.It was relief to read honest prose, written without guile or self-consciousness.
review 2: Well, the thing I liked least was the ... moreprofanity, yet Billy Bob Thornton warned about that, as he would say, "straight up in the beginning". I really could relate to his upbringing, loved his observations about the 3 Bedroom Brick Home being the epitome of making it to the middle class in the rural south in the 50's and 60's. He and I are close to the same age and that just sweetens the pot as he rambles on about the way things were. His parents, many cousins, friends, could have been my neighbors. And though I wasn't so talented as he so to make the leap to the celebrity studded life as an adult, I can still relate, as a fellow baby boomer, to the mistrust of the internet and what it's doing to us all. I, too, long for telephone conversations and snail mail. I surely would like to see him do more writing, acting, and directing. less

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