This power game can be played well or poorly, and in these 48 laws culled from the history and wisdom of the world’s greatest power players are the rules that must be followed to win.

We live today as courtiers once did in royal courts: we must appear civil while attempting to crush all those around us. The authors have created a sort of anti-Book of Virtues in this encyclopedic compendium of the ways and means of power.Įveryone wants power and everyone is in a constant duplicitous game to gain more power at the expense of others, according to Greene, a screenwriter and former editor at Esquire (Elffers, a book packager, designed the volume, with its attractive marginalia). Unlike William Shatner's writings, with their annoying yet oddly engaging egomania, and George Takei's expression of heartfelt outrage, I Am Spock lacks a sense of Nimoy's personality. For instance, he describes Trek's writer-producer Gene Coon as ``the kind of person who didn't parade his amazing accomplishmentshe just simply did the impossible, and did it well.'' Indeed, every actor, writer, producer, and technician with whom Nimoy worked was ``amazing,'' ``brilliant,'' and ``wonderful.'' He glosses over the bitter feelings and internecine squabbling vividly described in other Trek books, calling into question the exactness of his reminiscences. His prose is chatty, banal, and prone to hyperbole. More informative are his chapters describing unrelated projects such as the films Three Men and a Baby and The Good Mother, both of which Nimoy directed. Most of Nimoy's numerous anecdotes here add little to Trek lore.

Did you feel rejected? I'm sorry,'' Nimoy says to Spock, with whom he has periodic conversations throughout the book. I was just trying to find a way to come to terms and explain. In fact, Nimoy apologizes for his more controversial 1975 memoir, I Am Not Spock: ``That was just a play of words, ideas. Sadly, while Nimoy the actor rarely gives an uninteresting or tedious performance, Nimoy the author has written a workmanlike but prosaic account that leaves the reader wondering what he might have said had he not been so seemingly eager to avoid both controversy and complexity. Spock, promises to be a welcome addition to a Trekker's library. A new book by Nimoy, the originator of the popular character Mr. A disappointingly ordinary memoir by an extraordinary actor.

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