![]() ![]() He actually added and changed a lot in his TV adaptation. Now, I should say that I have enjoyed some of Meyers screen work from the past, including The Seven-Per-cent Solution (based on Houdini’s sometime friend Conan Doyle’s famous sleuth) and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (which was very good and “spiritual” since I saw it having eaten a healthy dose of LSD), so I had a favorable view of him doing in. ![]() Frankly while reading some of this I was thinking about other things so I can’t really report on it.Īt far as the A&E series being based on the book, that was probably an economic convenience for Nicholas Meyer since I assume he owns the rights to his father’s work and therefore padded his production company payday. ![]() This has to do with castration worries, etc. In the second half there are a couple of chapters that are mainly focused on the Freudian stuff with little Houdini information. I would have got through it faster had it been gripping. Granted, I am a very slow reader, somewhat dyslexic, but some of it was a bit of a slog. I don’t have enough knowledge in trends in shrinkdom to say.īut it does contain some interesting information since I knew nothing much about Houdini other than the old Tony Curtis movie, viewed decades ago, and the show mentioned above. Other reviewers here have stated that it’s kind of dated Freudian stuff and that may well be true. The writer states at the outset that it is not really a biography, and that there are other books better for that, but his take on the psychology of the great entertainer. The TV thing was written by Nicholas Meyer and based on his father’s book, this book, which was written about 30 years ago. I liked Adrien Brody in this, is was pretty good, entertaining. The reason I read this book is because I watched the Houdini mini series, only two parts, on Netflix. ![]()
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