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Summary: Helpful
Review: This book took a completely different spin on contemporary authors than I had previously seen. I never thought I'd hear anyone excuse the emptiness of the Kings, Rices, Grishams, etc. but Meyers' did just that. He represents the pretensious and inexplicably flawed writing of today's 'literary' authors as just what it is. Hard to read Bool-sheet. The part of this book that I absolutely love the most that Meyers calls a spade a spade and says that if it's hard to read that's probably because it's poorly written. It seems unfair that contemporary critics would allow someone to feel stupid simply because they don't like garbage. Literature isn't as subjective as some would believe. It consists not simply of words but of good utilization of those words. Anyone could slap a bunch of words on a few pages and expect people to like it. The rel issue is that people need to at least try nd distinguish between novels that seem to be words vomitted onto a paged helter skelter and words used to crft a novel out of scattered words and blank pages. This book is good for anyone who likes to red and essenial to anyone who's ever read a book that left them scrtching their heads.
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