Tuesday, November 30, 2004
Books in the Queue
Sunday, November 14, 2004
Latest News from the National Book Awards War
BOOKS / SUNDAY BOOK REVIEW | November 14, 2004
And the Winner Is . . .
By LAURA MILLER (NYT)
A quote:
"Readers, as a rule, care more about what an author writes; other writers are often more impressed with how. Beautiful sentences, formal experiments and infinitely delicate evocations of emotional states abound in these five books, but those woebegone souls in search of a good story will have to keep looking, elsewhere."
A comment:
To paraphrase a recent political rule: "It's the story, stupid!"
And the Winner Is . . .
By LAURA MILLER (NYT)
A quote:
"Readers, as a rule, care more about what an author writes; other writers are often more impressed with how. Beautiful sentences, formal experiments and infinitely delicate evocations of emotional states abound in these five books, but those woebegone souls in search of a good story will have to keep looking, elsewhere."
A comment:
To paraphrase a recent political rule: "It's the story, stupid!"
Thursday, November 04, 2004
Yet Even More Crap from Big Time Publishing
NY Times | November 4, 2004
A Spunky Heroine, and an Officer's Improbable Rise
By JANET MASLIN (NYT)
Two quotes from Ms. Maslin's review:
About Metro Girl By Janet Evanovich 296 pages. HarperCollins. $26.95.
"Writing novels isn't like working on an assembly line. Or at least it isn't supposed to be. But there are literary dynamos who crank out installment after installment, using titles that serve as brand names and replicating the same sausagelike structure over and over. A show of creativity just means dreaming up an additional product line."
About The Prince of Beverly Hills By Stuart Woods 321 pages. Putnam. $25.95.
". . .one reader's comment about the dauntless, tireless Mr. Woods on Amazon.com is: "Did he write this over a weekend, while watching a football game?"
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A Spunky Heroine, and an Officer's Improbable Rise
By JANET MASLIN (NYT)
Two quotes from Ms. Maslin's review:
About Metro Girl By Janet Evanovich 296 pages. HarperCollins. $26.95.
"Writing novels isn't like working on an assembly line. Or at least it isn't supposed to be. But there are literary dynamos who crank out installment after installment, using titles that serve as brand names and replicating the same sausagelike structure over and over. A show of creativity just means dreaming up an additional product line."
About The Prince of Beverly Hills By Stuart Woods 321 pages. Putnam. $25.95.
". . .one reader's comment about the dauntless, tireless Mr. Woods on Amazon.com is: "Did he write this over a weekend, while watching a football game?"
Link
