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jpog_blue's review
4.0
book from first reads.
i am really not sure how to rate this, so take it as you will.
this hits a lot of my requirements for interesting nonfiction -- it is essentially an essay collection bound together by the process of writing/research. its overall narrative is about the nature of art and recognition and is built in the margins of the individual pieces rather than in the text.
that said, though the book feels like it has a lot of direction, that strong sense of propulsion does not ultimately find a stable product stage. a good story SHOULD end with some tension, perhaps as much tension as has characterized the other "stages" of rising action etc., but here i mean that you reach the end and the various threads don't entirely come together to equal a full thought about its thesis. some essays in this book were violently interesting, but the following pieces did not build on them adequately. i think on the whole the book would be better served by a reordering the pieces for a more narrative product.
i am really not sure how to rate this, so take it as you will.
this hits a lot of my requirements for interesting nonfiction -- it is essentially an essay collection bound together by the process of writing/research. its overall narrative is about the nature of art and recognition and is built in the margins of the individual pieces rather than in the text.
that said, though the book feels like it has a lot of direction, that strong sense of propulsion does not ultimately find a stable product stage. a good story SHOULD end with some tension, perhaps as much tension as has characterized the other "stages" of rising action etc., but here i mean that you reach the end and the various threads don't entirely come together to equal a full thought about its thesis. some essays in this book were violently interesting, but the following pieces did not build on them adequately. i think on the whole the book would be better served by a reordering the pieces for a more narrative product.
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