Sepinwall's book excerpt on The Sopranos: The Russian, and The End

If you've hung around here for a few years, you probably know I take my television very seriously. So this is my pitch to buy Sepinwall's new book, which is great. It's $8 if you have a Kindle.

http://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Was-Televised-Slingers-Slayers/dp/0615718299/ref=la_B001K8C6KS_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1354742218&sr=1-1

Or, at the very least, read this chapter about the Sopranos, which covers some of our old favorite topics.

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2012/12/alan_sepinwall_s_the_revolution_was_televised_excerpt_david_chase_and_the.html

l'm so glad Chase didn't let Winter talk him into bringing back the Russian.

 

Re: Sepinwall's book except on The Sopranos: The Russian, and The End

I am wondering what the structure is. I don't want to read a book that's going to blend all these shows together often and spoil The Wire or Deadwood or others I haven't watched.

 

Broken into chapters. So you can skip the ones you you haven't seen. I believe it goes:

Prologue: (Brief Hill Street Blues/St Elsewhere/NYPD Blue riff)
Oz
Sopranos
Wire
Deadwood
Shield
Lost
Buffy
24
Battlestar Galactica
Friday Night Lights
Mad Men
Breaking Bad

 

I really gotta find a way to read this without a Kindle or whatever.

 

Do you have a paperback reader?

 

You can straight buy the book. It just costs $16.99 as a paperback.

Also, can't you read books on your computer just with a Kindle app? I think that's possible, yes?

 

This book is very high on my list of things to read next.

 

I only have watched (as in, all or almost all episodes) four of those shows. I'm sure the essays are excellent, but I will wait on it. I do plan on watching The Wire and maybe Breaking Bad, too, so maybe after I plow through those. I am about finished with Friday Night Lights.

 

Yes, I'm reading the book right now on my IPad with the Kindle app.

Kudos to Sepinwall for going the self-publishing route, too.

 

Yeah, except you can't buy the book up here on amazon.ca. And amazon.com won't ship to Canada. And I really want to read this. Have seen all the shows except Buffy, battlestar & Friday Night. None of them interested me.

 

That's what you get for living in Canada.

 

That, and not being able to walk around with a Glock in the inside pocket of my Leafs jacket.