Tim Robey, Box Office Poison: Hollywood's Story on a Century of Flops

 An entertaining read, one can never tire of reading of other people's hubris and disasters. A mixture of cinematic criticism and tales that would have been at home in the Book of Heroic Failures, chronicling some of the biggest box-office flops in Hollywood history. Some have become classics, some guilty pleasures, but most were utterly misconceived and poorly executed. I've publicly vowed not to buy any more books until my birthday, let's see how I get on. If I can make it to the end of the week I'll be beating my average. If I make it to the end of January I'll be astonished