Rating: 
Summary: True Accomplishment
Review: Today's novelist faces a world teeming with "creativity", which leaves him with one of two options: one, he could reprase what hundreds have already written, settling for whatever words tarry unused. Or two, though even more difficult, he could concoct an idea totally original, fresh and hopefully durable enough to withstand the "experts'" flaming arrows. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately), "many will enter, but few will win." To discover a novel, unblemished amid all this jargon, refreshes me beyond measure. Benson humbly proves that true wisdom may not only come with age. Immature authors drown their readers in pompous language; they engorge their egos to such obesity that even a good idea no longer remains visible. Classics withstand the test of time, but Northstar goes beyond that: it stands distant from the trite masses, waiting patiently for others to notice and join. Northstar is truly a work of art; Benson honors his readers with this novel, and I eagerly await more to come.
Rating:
Summary: True Accomplishment
Review: Today's novelist faces a world teeming with "creativity", which leaves him with one of two options: one, he could reprase what hundreds have already written, settling for whatever words tarry unused. Or two, though even more difficult, he could concoct an idea totally original, fresh and hopefully durable enough to withstand the "experts'" flaming arrows. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately), "many will enter, but few will win." To discover a novel, unblemished amid all this jargon, refreshes me beyond measure. Benson humbly proves that true wisdom may not only come with age. Immature authors drown their readers in pompous language; they engorge their egos to such obesity that even a good idea no longer remains visible. Classics withstand the test of time, but Northstar goes beyond that: it stands distant from the trite masses, waiting patiently for others to notice and join. Northstar is truly a work of art; Benson honors his readers with this novel, and I eagerly await more to come.
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