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NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the legendary actor and best-selling author: a novel about the making of a star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film...and the humble comic books that inspired it. Funny, touching, and wonderfully thought-provoking, while also capturing the changes in America and American culture since World War…

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1 author picked The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Tom Hanks is one of my favorite actors, so when I saw that he’d written a book it immediately caught my eye.

Like my number-one favorite book, it provides a behind-the-scenes look at how a show is made, in this case a movie being shot on location. There’s much more drama going on behind the camera than in front of it! The pacing is not frantic, however. The cast of characters is wonderfully varied, and I enjoyed seeing how they related to each other and grew as people – or didn’t.

I especially liked that Tom Hanks also narrated the…

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