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Sto caricando le informazioni... Thrill Me: Essays on Fictiondi Benjamin Percy
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Another great book about the craft. Percy uses personal essays and experiences to offer advice on how to write a thriller. ( ) Love this book. It's an easy read and packed with so much helpful advice for aspiring authors. Reading it will give you a great insight into the mind of Ben Percy and an understanding of the discipline it takes to be a successful writer. It just might make you want to pick up the author's other books to see how he puts his advice to work. I can't recommend it highly enough. Normally I have to feel like I like the author in order to read a whole book of essays, especially if they're advice, but I'll make an exception in Benjamin Percy's case, because his writing advice is so good. Most of it's not hugely original in basic theme - it's hard to have hugely original writing advice - but he explains himself well and offers wonderful examples. (Plus you've gotta love a book that uses The Monster at the End of This Book as a demonstration in building tension.)
Thrill Me isn’t your standard craft book in that it acknowledges a wide variety of sources: novels, movies, television shows, comics, and music. I’m talking about the fussiest of literary short stories and I’m talking about the popcorniest of summer blockbusters, all in an effort to figure out how to tell a story that is both artfully constructed and compulsively readable. With the rise of the MFA program, there has been a circling of the wagons, a snobbish protectiveness of literary realism and a fetishized appreciation of pretty sentences and a condemnation of anything that reeks of plot or genre. I’m battling back against that. I’m all for pretty sentences, mind you, but there’s nothing wrong with making the reader wonder what happens next. Premi e riconoscimenti
Bold new essays on how to craft a thrilling read--in any genre--from the bestselling author ofThe Dead Lands Anyone familiar with the meteoric rise of Benjamin Percy's career will surely have noticed a certain shift: After writing two short-story collections and a literary novel, he delivered the werewolf thrillerRed Moonand the postapocalyptic epicThe Dead Lands.Now, in his first book of nonfiction, Percy challenges the notion that literary and genre fiction are somehow mutually exclusive. The title essay is an ode to the kinds of books that make many readers fall in love with fiction: science fiction, fantasy, mysteries, horror, from J.R.R. Tolkien to Anne Rice, Ursula K. Le Guin to Stephen King. Percy's own academic experience banished many of these writers in the name of what is "literary" and what is "genre." Then he discovered Michael Chabon,Aimee Bender, Cormac McCarthy, Margaret Atwood, and others who employ techniques of genre fiction while remaining literary writers. In fifteen essays on the craft of fiction, Percy looks to disparate sources such asJaws, Blood Meridian, andThe Girl with the Dragon Tattooto discover how contemporary writers engage issues of plot, suspense, momentum, and the speculative, as well as character, setting, and dialogue. An urgent and entertaining missive on craft,Thrill Mebrims with Percy's distinctive blend of anecdotes, advice, and close reading, all in the service of one dictum: Thrill the reader. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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