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Tossed on a relentless sea of twaddle
Well, dear reader, I am afraid we are in for some rough sledding in the twaddle department. Ostensibly, although dimly, this book purports to be about an internationally best-selling author of books on spiritual subjects. And just to prove how astute he is in these spiritual matters, his sales are mentioned many times. Many, many times. He is also happy to describe what it is like to be a writer. And while Brazilian writer [Paulo Coelho]'s unnamed narrator makes the point of being a sort of Zen Warrior, he writes suspiciously like a raving egotist whose hemorrhoids are on fire. For instance, here is how he describes his, ah, writing technique.
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HOW HOLLYWOOD BEATS UP WRITERS ; Or, how I found out what I already should have known about the movie business
I must say, right from the beginning, that I should have known better, since I grew up in Hollywood, attended Hollywood High, and in the miserable childhood that seems to be crucial to the formation of the novelist's sensibility, I left home at 17 and moved in with the family of a friend. The friend's father was a screenwriter, and the business had broken this writer's heart. When I left California for New York to become a novelist, this screenwriter took me aside and said, with tears in his eyes, \"Whatever you do, don't come back here.\" The studio executive had already paid for one previous version of this script. It was standard Hollywood stuff. I guessed they wanted something fresh from me. Maybe the way Ford Madox Ford would have enlarged on the fragment of a story they had given me. The insulting aspect of this is how the studio shows you that you don't measure up. In the beginning, they have a vague idea that you might produce, but they aren't sure how. \"Talent\", like a beautiful woman, they seem to say, is a mystery. Who knows what she is going to do? Maybe after you fly her to Italy for the weekend, she spurns your advances. The ingrate. What a pain these writers are, the studio seems to say. Why won't they just do the job, you know, a script not that different from those that have already made money? Don't they get it?
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Telling details bring clarity to 'Unfinished' business
disastercompel in 'Unfinished' Telling details compel in 'of a disaster compel in makebring clarity to of a disaster The headline goes here It is dangerous to consider the author of a novel when trying to come to terms with a book he has written, and, in fact, in \"An Unfinished Season,\" a character explicitly advises against it.
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Telling details bring clarity to 'Unfinished' business
disastercompel in 'Unfinished' Telling details compel in 'of a disaster compel in makebring clarity to of a disaster The headline goes here It is dangerous to consider the author of a novel when trying to come to terms with a book he has written, and, in fact, in \"An Unfinished Season,\" a character explicitly advises against it.
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Telling details bring clarity to 'Unfinished' business
disastercompel in 'Unfinished' Telling details compel in 'of a disaster compel in makebring clarity to of a disaster The headline goes here It is dangerous to consider the author of a novel when trying to come to terms with a book he has written, and, in fact, in \"An Unfinished Season,\" a character explicitly advises against it.
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Unfinished Season': longing for clarity
Ostensibly, An Unfinished Season is a coming-of-age story that takes the form of a young man's last summer before going to college. This, surely, is one of those periods which, when considered later in life, is almost always haunting. In this case, we have the account of Wils Ravan, a young man who is coming to terms with his mother and father, their difficult marriage, the tension of a strike at his father's business, and Wils' first love affair. Wils attends some dances, works for a newspaper as a summer job and meets a woman.
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