{"id":3730,"date":"2007-04-29T20:09:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-30T01:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3730"},"modified":"2017-11-29T11:59:07","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T17:59:07","slug":"book-report-glengarry-glen-ross-by-david-mamet-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/29\/book-report-glengarry-glen-ross-by-david-mamet-1983\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet (1983)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought this book at the <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/21\/good-book-hunting-april-20-2007\/\" target=\"_new\">Kirkwood Book Fair<\/a> this year; I think all of these book club edition plays come from the same fellow&#8217;s library, but different ones are available each year.  I wonder what&#8217;s up with that.<\/p>\n<p>This play, originally from the early 1980s, was made into a movie in <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0104348\/\" target=\"_new\">1992<\/a>, and I wonder how David Mamet could have stretched this into a 100 minute film; it took me less than that to read it.  Perhaps the profanity took longer in the performances than in reading.<\/p>\n<p>The story deals with a high pressure real estate group who sells lots in Florida.  Some sales people are rising, some are falling, and a new office manager puts pressure on them to sell.  One night, one of the men breaks into the office to steal the all-important leads that identify prospects; working in concert with another salesperson, the new burglar will take the leads and sell them to another office for a job there.  Hokay.  Not exactly Shakespeare here.  A quick read, and it will give me something to compare the movie against if I ever see the movie.<\/p>\n<p><center><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0802130917&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought this book at the Kirkwood Book Fair this year; I think all of these book club edition plays come from the same fellow&#8217;s library, but different ones are available each year. I wonder what&#8217;s up with that. This play, originally from the early 1980s, was made into a movie in 1992, and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3730"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18118,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3730\/revisions\/18118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}