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Return to Book Page. Sopranos book complete collectors edition free download — The Sopranos by Brett Martin. Published to coincide with the airing of the series finale and packed with full-color photos, "The Sopranos" provides an in-depth look into the details of the show's creation.
Includes more than 50 original interviews with the cast, crew, and show producers. Get A Copy. Hardcoverpages. More Details Original Title. Other Editions 4. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Sopranosplease sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. In memoriam - James Gandolfini - I loved this actor, of course mainly for his performance of Tony Sopranos book complete collectors edition free download, surely one of the most indelible characters in all of tv or film.
His lightning fast mood changes, his complexities, his careening from grotesque brutality to soft concern and back again, his unpredictability, his terrifying physical presence - this was a dream marriage between the actor and the role and the writing, it was perfect.
I was shocked to hear of his death, he was only In memoriam - James Gandolfini - I was shocked to hear of his death, he was only So here's my revived review of this book about the Sopranos with some great quotes from Tony.
Can there be anyone who hasn't seen The Sopranos? If so, you couldn't do yourself a bigger favour. You will see fantastic performances and you'll get your heart broken in a number of places and you'll see what great fiction can be like, and how great tv is today's Shakespeare and James Gandolfini was its Italian American Macbeth.
It has taken us since Christmas in case you might think we have quit our jobs just to watch the Sopranos. Although I can see why some people would do that. My head tells me The Wire is the greatest tv show ever, but my heart says it's The Sopranos. The Wire's perspective is god-like - the cops observe the hoppers and we watch the watchers, and also we get to see how the great wheels revolve, how the schools mesh with politics, how that engages the media, how the police operate with the newspapers, how the unions deal with the politicians and the drug trade, wheels sopranos book complete collectors edition free download wheels, cogs and circuits and little flickering lights, the vast machine and the tiny human parts to it, some getting squashed, some being the squashers, but all part of the universe called Baltimore aka the City aka our modern life, the one we built but didn't create, the one which creates us, our jobs, our homes and our possibilities.
The Sopranos is not like that, instead it's from the inside out, it builds from one single family and then it gets complicated. It's less lofty, less grand, and as you may know, when it isn't dealing in Macbethian tragedy and the horrible psychology of denial it's funny.
And impossible to discuss without hauling out a few of the hundreds of favourite quotes. Tony Soprano has the usual problems with his teenage kids. Melfi: And how did you answer him? Tony: I told him that it costs grand to bring him up so far, so if he's got no purpose I want a fucking refund.
Tony discusses parenting difficulties with his wife : Carmela: As a parent today, you are over a barrel no matter what you do. You take away her car you become her chauffeur. You ground her you've got to stay home weekends and be prison guards. Tony: If you throw her out, social services will bring her back and we'd be in front of the judge.
She's not 18 yet. Carmela: That's your solution? To throw your daughter out? Tony: All I'm sayin', with the laws today you can't even restrain your kid physically. She could sue you for child abuse. Carmela: There has to be consequences. Tony: And there will be, Sopranos book complete collectors edition free download hear ya okay. Let's just not sopranos book complete collectors edition free download our hand.
Because if she figures out we're powerless, we're fucked. Some early morning family conversation : Meadow: I don't think sex should be a punishable offense. Tony: You know honey, that's where I agree with you. I don't think sex should be a punishable offense either. But I do think talking about sex at the breakfast table is a punishable offense. So no more sex talk, okay.
Meadow: It's the 90s. Parents are supposed to discuss sex with their children. Tony: Yeah, but that's where you're wrong. You see out there sopranos book complete collectors edition free download the s but in this house it's Tony on his hippy sister sopranos book complete collectors edition free download Whatever her scam is, I'll be five thousand dollars lighter before she raindances back to the commune.
Dr Melfi on Tony's mother: You know your mother is always talking about infanticide. Tony and his Russian girlfriend: Tony: What is that? Irina: Chicken Soup for the Soul. Tony: You should read Tomato Sauce for your Ass. It's the Italian version.
And of course there is usually some business to be conducted: Richie: You called to complain yesterday? That's our policy, it's written on the side of our trucks. Double your garbage back if you're not satisfied.
You charged me for pickups you missed. Richie: My dispatcher asked you: if you're not satisfied, did you want your garbage back? Siraj: Of course I don't want garbage back!
Richie: Then you're satisfied! And as they're very strong Catholics, sometimes they wonder if they're going straight to hell. Here's Paulie explaining what Purgatory is to a nervous Christopher: You add up all your mortal sins and multiply that number by Then you add up all your venial sins and multiply that by You add that together and that's your sentence.
I figure I'm gonna have to do 6, years before I get accepted into heaven and 6, years is nothin' in eternity terms. I can do that standing on my head. Uncle Junior on the state of his life: I got the Feds so far up my ass I can taste brylcreem. I would also like to celebrate the many great malapropisms the guys spray around — "we should create a little dysentery in the ranks", "don't worry about it, there's no stigmata", "Quasimodo predicted all of this", "we're in a fucking stagmire" Dickens would have loved this show.
Also Freud! This book here is a gorgeous piece of fan fodder, recommended for all fans. Postscript: This sopranos book complete collectors edition free download is written by Brett Martin, it's on the title page, but for some reason I can't fathom his name does not appear on the cover or the spine. What's that all about, Melcher Media Publishers?
Fuck you! Name the author on the damn cover! He wrote it!
