A Critical History of Television's the Twilight Zone, 1959-1964

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Summary: This book -really- stinks!
Review: DO NOT listen to the three "4 star" reviews posted by the same person (probably the author, the only person that could like this horrid work). If someone offered me a copy of this book for FREE, I would not walk 100 yards to pick it up. What a waste of paper..... SERIOUSLY!! I wish we had ZERO stars as an option, because that is what this deserves!

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Summary: They didn't DO anything at all to write this book!
Review: I'll chime in here too. I guess from reading the "4 star" reviews below the authors aren't too lazy to promote this dog. They certainly were too lazy to do anything original. The #1 reason that I was so disappointed when I got this book, the AUTHORS WERE DOWNRIGHT LAZY!!! If this book is not a rehash, there has never ever been a book written that was!! While Zircee is often critized for the TZ Companion, Zicree did conduct his own interviews and gathered his own information. These guys didn't do JACK!! Presnell and McGee did not conduct even ONE interview. All of the information in this book came from other sources (and they relied HEAVILY on the Zicree TZ Companion throughout their book). Add the fact that it is all text based...not a single photo. They were too cheap to pay the publisher for any pictures. Now they want to charge you an arm and a leg for this really crappy rehash too....skip this one for CERTAIN!!

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Summary: Actually, it hasn't been done
Review: Must disagree with the 1 review of the Twilight Zone Book. While the Zicree "Companion" is incisive, it fails to mention the lost Zone episodes which surfaced on television in the 80s ... the Presnell book does ... and well. The "Critical History" is in-depth and well written. Rehash it isn't as it uses for its source the original scripts. Well worth a look.

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Summary: They didn't DO anything at all to write this book!
Review: Now that the show is back on the air and the Twilight Zone magazine is defunct, it is nice to have Mr Presnell's book as a watching companion. No photos, but the information is exhaustive (without being exhausting) and the writing is scholarly but accessible. This is a book clearly written by a fan. It's nice to watch the show nightly and then go behind the scenes with the book.