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A review by eswee
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
funny
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
4.25
I finally got around to reading this, it has been on my TBR shortlist for longer than a year now. I enjoyed it! Stephen Kings honesty both in the memoir parts as the writing advise. Reading all these backstories about writing his own novels and how they became made me want to read all of them even more.
There's one part in the writing advise which feels like a light summary from the often mentioned Struck&White. It reads easy though and it's clear information (without the bullshit, as King writes). He clearly has an opinion about some things, and although I do think he's probably right about most of them (remember, English isn't my native language) some of it sounds like it's coming for a grumpy old man. Without it, I would have given it a solid 5 stars!
There's one part in the writing advise which feels like a light summary from the often mentioned Struck&White. It reads easy though and it's clear information (without the bullshit, as King writes). He clearly has an opinion about some things, and although I do think he's probably right about most of them (remember, English isn't my native language) some of it sounds like it's coming for a grumpy old man. Without it, I would have given it a solid 5 stars!