The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made is a nonfiction book co-written by Tom Bissell and Greg Sestero. It’s a biography recounting Sestero’s time in Los Angeles while working on the film The Room, a movie that although its box office income of less than $2,000, has absolutely soared in popularity in recent decades. The initial box office income was a comparative grain of sand next to the nearly $5,000,000 it has made these days.

Greg Sestero’s recollection of events is a tale as old as time, "a young actor looking to make a name for themselves moves to LA with hopes of making it big," and it’s all as captivating as you’d expect it to be. It’s a relatively small aspect of the book though, with most of the book’s word count being dedicated to the titular film The Room and more importantly, film creator Tommy Wiseau’s involvement with it.

Although the book is non-fiction, Tommy Wiseau is such an enigmatic cartoon character of a man that anybody discussing the novel would be remiss to forgo mentioning his name. He is what the Genie was to the animated movie Aladdin, transforming a story that by all means would otherwise be fairly standard into something truly magical. From attempting to flirt with women clearly only interested in Sestero to spending upwards of $6,000 for the construction of a toilet on set solely for Wiseau to use, if you decide to read this book, your thorough entertainment throughout is guaranteed.

Reviews by: Joshua Nolasco

Joshua is a virtual volunteer at the Lincoln Heights Branch Library. He is in the 12th grade at Abraham Lincoln High School.

—Kelcey Soderstrom, Young Adult Librarian, Lincoln Heights Branch Library