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Title: Boy Wonder by James Robert Baker ISBN: 0451165063 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: January, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4.64

Rating: 5
Summary: An Enjoyable Clash of Mediums!
Comment: I loved/love this novel. It was one of those books that I could not help sharing with my friends. And now - I surf the web trying to find a copy to share with new friends. Along with the fact that the novel is absolutely entertaining and hilarious, it was the closest I've ever come to feel as though I was watching some sort of movie while I was in fact reading - which may be part of the 'real time' irony in that it is a document to a ficticious life about making and living movies. I give it 5 stars because I loved it when I read it, I enjoyed sharing it with my friends and I miss it now that I have lost it (to an ex-friend I guess!). I still think about this book! I read it about 10 or so years ago and I'm on the hunt. My advice is - if you have a copy keep it and if you don't find a trusting firend (like I am), borrow it, and keep it! Enjoy - you can't go wrong!

Rating: 5
Summary: My favorite book
Comment: I found this book buried in the back of my local public library, and am extremely happy that I did. I think I can say, without any hyperbole, it's one of the best books I've read in my life. I've read it about a dozen times, and each time I find something new to laugh at.

An oral history of a deranged movie producer's rise to the top, fall from grace, and return to power, there are more laughs and over the top situations in this book than in any other. The discussion of the flying pigs had me on the floor, crying my eyes out because it was so funny. While the situations are over the top, never once does the book cross over into being ridiculous or unbelievable.

I don't know of there being any real problem with the book. As I said, I've read the book many times and each time I finish I'm amazed at how excellent a writer James Robert Baker was. It's a shame he decided to end his life; I've also read his first novel, "Fuel-Injected Dreams," which is quite good as well. ...

Bottom line: if you get a chance to read this, do so immediately. You won't be disappointed.

Rating: 5
Summary: A raunchy, giddy, on target satire of the movie biz
Comment: One of the out-and-out funniest and most on-target books about Hollywood I've read. This is definitely one of those books that gets better with repeated readings; you find something new every time. Other than the fact that every character in the book is bisexual (a predilection of the admittedly gay author of the book), I've yet to find another novel about the movie biz that is as telling, funny and touching all at the same time. Highly recommended.