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A review by stephkazoowho
Negotiating with the Dead by Margaret Atwood
4.0
This book was not what I thought it would be. It was also not what I thought I wanted to read, which really just goes to show that most of us haven't got a clue what we really want.
The subtitle is "A Writer on Writing." Don't get this mixed up with Stephen King's "On Writing" or any other writerly how-to book. This is more the philosophy of the act and of the writer. Why do writers write? For whom? How? It's filled with hypotheses and many literary examples ranging from Dante and Shakespeare to Stephen King and Tolkien.
It also contains some information about Atwood's life along with a number of amusing anecdotal asides.
Overall, it's quite thought provoking and well worth the read.
The subtitle is "A Writer on Writing." Don't get this mixed up with Stephen King's "On Writing" or any other writerly how-to book. This is more the philosophy of the act and of the writer. Why do writers write? For whom? How? It's filled with hypotheses and many literary examples ranging from Dante and Shakespeare to Stephen King and Tolkien.
It also contains some information about Atwood's life along with a number of amusing anecdotal asides.
Overall, it's quite thought provoking and well worth the read.