Make Love! the Bruce Campbell Way

by Bruce Campbell

Book Overview

What you're reading right now is known as the "flap copy." This is where the 72,444 words of my latest book, "Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way," are cooked down to fit in a 3 1/2-by-9 1/2-inch column. But how does one do that with a fictional story about a B movie actor's disastrous attempt to finally star in a big-budget Hollywood movie? Do you tantalize readers with snappy zingers like the one in chapter six where Biff the Wonder Boy says, "You...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312312601
• ISBN13: 9780312312602
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
• Length: 309 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

I would expect this book from Campbell

Bruce Campbell is the kind of guy you either love or hate, so I won't waste your time. If you already hate him, avoid this book like a B-Movie plague, for the book is cut from the same material. (pause) OK. Now that we have lost the anti-Campbell faction let's take a look at "Make Love* the Bruce Campbell way". This novel is a hoot. It is totally silly. From the cover, one should understand that the entire book is tongue-in-cheek. In it we see Bruce preparing for and acting in a movie flop called "Let's Make Love!" In the process, he joins a Southern Gentlemen's Club, fights (and looses) a duel, teaches Richard Gere how to pick up women, and while disguised as someone else, agrees to produce a movie with Jack Nicholson. There is mystery and plenty of action toward the end with a rather surprising ending. He flashes back on his incredible body of work, especially the Army of Darkness and Evil Dead movies. Bruce is self-deprecating and seems to welcome and enjoy his role in life as a successful "B" movie star. The book is funny, light and witty. It has plenty of illustrations and photos. It is the kind of book one would expect from Bruce Campbell.

He strikes again. Groovy.

What a hilarious way to explain the shadyness of Hollywood but through a book that tells it as if it could have actually happened. I guess too many people wanted the total truth and still don't understand this man's genius. Hope I never end up as an extra on a B movie and become bitter like many of the other so called actors in Hollywood. Bruce gives you the secrets to surviving in the land of plastic by giving you the in's and out's of the business in a hilarious yet somewhat alien-abducting manner. I guess you have to be an alien in order to become a big star. Read this book, and understand the legend that is Bruce.

Better than my already high expectations

I thought Bruce Campbell's autobiography was funny, extremely well written, and a fantastic read. Then I read Make Love the Bruce Campbell way, and found it even better than the bio. The books aren't part of a series- one is an informative, and fun bio and one is an amazing, entertaining piece of fiction. Let me put a picture in your head: Campbell and Richard Gere in a New York apartment, decked out in Gere's serene style, which is getting trashed because the 2 actors are just about fighting to the death, in the name of practicing their lines and improving the script. The entire book is like that- you can visualize all the funny, crazy, weird things happening. More than a few times i could be found laughing out loud while reading it (note to anyone who might try- bad idea to read it in the library- could get you into trouble) Even though i don't like relationship movies- if this were ever made into a real movie (which it won't) i would run out and see it. Bruce Campbell gets better and better with every new project he does (writing, acting, directing, you name it), and i whole-heartedly think the B-movie actor virus he talks about is a figment of the imagination. so, in short (yeah right- this is pretty long)- GO AND READ THIS BOOK IF YOU HAVE ANY SENSE OF HUMOR AT ALL!

Laughed so hard, I scared the baby

I spent the first few chapters of this book totally buying it, and then I spent the rest laughing so hard I could barely breathe. At first, I sighed over the invented movie central to the book's plot; now I'm sighing in the hope that *this book* could be made into a movie! It's a B-movie in book form, and I was in heaven. The last few chapters, especially, had me howling, filled with chases, fight scenes, and unbelievable but hysterical action. Thanks, Bruce. That's the best laugh I've had in a long time. More, please?

Great fun, just don't call him Ash!!!

This is a great new book from Bruce "Don't Call Me Ash" Campbell, star of the Evil Dead films. This is quite different from his first title, "If Chins Could Kill, Confessions of a 'B' Movie Actor." Campbell's great sense of humor lifts this title above the average Hollywood trash. Plus, he played Ash, so ya gota love him. While "Chins" was autobiographical, "Make Love" picks up where his first tome left off - present, day real life. "Make Love" starts in real life, but quickly takes a hilarious, fictional detour through the life of an "A" movie actor. It reads very much like the first book. It is in the first person, but nothing in MLTBCW actually happened. Bruce gets a part in a move with Richard (A**BAG) Gere and Rene Zellweger (sp?). He makes all sorts of very funny faux pas while researching the role (including an old-fashioned southern duel of all things). All the great comedy is there, and Campbell flashes back to many of his other films and TV shows, all within a fictional context. A must read for any BC fan, especially if you liked "Chins." Campbell's Hollywood insight and humorous situations (and funny photos and graphics) make this a page-turner from start to finish.