It Takes A Certain Type To Be A Writer [Paperback]

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Paperback: 1 pages
Publisher: Conari Press; illustrated edition edition (Aug 1 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1573247227
ISBN-13: 978-1573247221
Product Dimensions: 18.1 x 12.9 x 1.7 cm
Shipping Weight: 191 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,984,804 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Trivia About Writers and Writing, Sep 13 2011

By Judah - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: It Takes A Certain Type To Be A Writer (Paperback)

Did not find this 'Totally Riveting and Utterly Entertaining'. It's really minor details about the lives of famous writers and writing contests, and not much else. The 'Everyone's a Critic Section' where famous authors trash other famous authors was the best part of this volume, but it's only from p56-71 (Half free-for-all, half bash Shakespeare). Here are some examples:

p59 "Why don't you write books people can read?" --Nora Joyce, to her husband James
p61 "Mark Twain was a hack writer who would have been considered 4th rate in Europe, who tried out a few of the old proven 'sure-fire' literary skeletons with sufficient local color to intrigue the supercilious and lazy." -- William Faulkner

p66 "Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose works please only in London and Canada." --Voltaire
p67 "I have tried to read Shakespeare and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me." --Charles Dickens
p69 "Shakespeare's stories are rude, immoral, vulgar, and senseless." -- Leo Tolstoy

Most of the book reads like this, and isn't so great:
p12 In 1854 Washington Irving was appointed US ambassador to Spain.
p42 Edgar Allen Poe married his 13-year-old cousin.
p118 Arthur C. Clarke played the 'man on the park bench' in the movie "2010".
p183 Jack London killed himself (perhaps accidentally) with an overdose of morphine at age forty.

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