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Review title: Mamet's opinion is not meant to be a bad thing....
Product review: I read this book before I began taking my first acting class and I must say it was written from a realist's stand-point. There is some very worthy information in this book! However, I wouldn't reccommend this book to someone who is learning about acting for the first time (like I was.) When I had performed my first monologue in class, I had received some good comments from my teacher and peers, but I was also told that I had lacked emotion in an area of the script where it should've been injected more strongly. Then again, the monologue I performed wasn't written by the brilliant David Mamet; whereby if the script is "that good", the actor can just say his/her lines and still make an impact on the audience. Overall, the book can be very effective for actors. But, again, I certainly wouldn't "marry" everything I was reading in this book if I was just starting out.
