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Summary: Compelling and Insightful
Review: The information in this book is helpful to all writers, hobbyists and professionals. The chapters are thought provoking and offer keen insights into preparing and writing a script. Anyone serious about their craft can't afford to miss studying this book.
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Summary: I am an now an official James Bonnet disciple.
Review: This book is such a miracle from the Lord himself that I have procalaimed myself a James Bonnet disciple (whether he knows it or not)! James Bonnet makes his book easier to work with than a "Jarvis Method", funner than Voglers "Writers Journey", and even though I still feel that it's required reading for any writer or filmmaker, more appropriate to read than Campbells "Hero With a Thousand Faces". James Bonnet needs to influence ALOT of people other than me with this book, for this book is truly the key for the better motion pictures and screenplays that we have been begging for since 1995. This book tells the secrets to the most successful stories in DEPTH, and I just recently brought another copy of this book to bring with me to places and gets dirty(the other one stays home and is in great condition). Just this event should prove to you how important James Bonnet's knowledge is to me. By the way, buy this book now!
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Summary: Advance Reviews for Stealing Fire!
Review: We are pleased to report the following advance reviews for our new title, Stealing Fire from the Gods: "Anyone who is interested in structuring feelings and thought into words and story will find Stealing Fire stimulating and worthwhile. A lifetime's labor of love, it provides the reader with insight, and an overview of the creative process through the history of story. I recommend it highly." Elliott Gould, Actor, Academy Award Nominee "Bonnet is a thoughtful and highly intelligent writer whose lifetime of experience has led him to an intriguing theory about how great stories are written. The Golden Paradigm is guaranteed to stimulate lively new debate on the age-old question." David W. Rintels, Emmy, Writers Guild, and Peabody Award Winning Writer, Producer "Anyone who has come to love literature, drama and just plain entertainment in their pursuit on enlightenment will love James Bonnet's Stealing Fire from the Gods. " Don Murray, award-winning writer, actor, producer of The Hoodlum Priest "James Bonnet has drawn on his vast experience as a writer and knowledge of storytelling to create a bold, insightful journey into the creative process." William R. Ewing, Producer, Writer, Production Executive
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Summary: Good concept, poor execution
Review: When I first started reading James Bonnet's book, I was excited. I had already read other works about the "Hero's Journey" approach to novel and screenplay writing. Bonnet was telling me that the hero's journey is only one small piece of something he called "The Golden Paradigm." I kept expecting to find a closer explanation of the paradigm, for example how the hero's journey theme contrasted with other types of plots. So far I haven't seen anything like that. For being a book for writers, this book is very poorly written (or poorly edited, I can't tell which). It reads like something that was self-published. The so-called explanations just ended up confusing me more than the original description did. That said, I think Bonnet does manage to show that there are many different types of heroes, and their journeys may be very different. He also shows that some of the archetypes set out in the "Hero's Journey" approach can have positive and negative aspects, and most of them can be either male or female. I also like that he included quite a bit of information about the "anti-hero", or what Bonnet calls the "holdfast." If you are willing to wade through voluminous and rambling prose to get at the main ideas, then I recommend this book. Otherwise, I suggest you get a synopsis from someone else. The ideas are good--the *book* is not.
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