by Jared » Tue Aug 18, 2015 12:24 am
I was excited about this book because GODZILLA is one of my all-time favorite films and I've always yearned for a definitive source in English. The book started off strong (though that just may have been because of my fascination with that period in history), but it takes a nosedive as soon as it starts covering production. The writing is often clunky with numerous spelling and grammatical mistakes. Brothers seems to make a lot of leaps in assumption - he describes exactly what Honda, Tsuburaya and others were thinking in certain scenarios, which is of course ridiculous and unnecessary. And as a musician, I can empathize with Mr. Homenick's (Tapkaara, who runs an excellent website by the way) issues with how Brothers covers it, as it's clear he simply needed to do more research and maybe reach out to some people.
As for general factual errors, I admittedly have not noticed a majority of them (because I'm fairly unfamiliar with the fine details of the film, hence why I picked up the book in the first place). I would be interested in seeing a debunking of the most obvious ones.
The consensus seems to be that the best information from this book is garnered from other sources - particularly issue #10 of Japanese Giants, written by Ed Godziszewski.
Yes, I'm not making this up), buyers should best beware....
