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Title: Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction by Patricia Highsmith ISBN: 0-312-28666-X Publisher: Griffin Trade Paperback Pub. Date: 08 September, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.57 (14 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Mildly amusing, but useless.
Comment: Very little useful information contained in this book. You can learn more about the craft from reading her fiction!
Get Stephen King's On Writing instead. Much more practical advice.
Rating: 5
Summary: Behind the Scenes at the Abbatoir
Comment: A modestly written, terse, readable and nuts and bolts book about how plots come to be put together, how a writer makes a living (or doesn't) and how to tell the story. What I found most charming about this "How-To" book was that it wasn't chirpy, wasn't preachy, didn't have a whiff of unreality arising from its advice, and was eminently practical. The only crime writing manual so far that I have picked up, browsed in, bought, took home and actually finished reading from cover to cover (sometimes doing the reading on a bus, that's how gripping it is). Recommended.
Rating: 4
Summary: Easy to read in one sitting
Comment: I have never read Patricia Highsmith's work, but I have seen Talented Mr. Ripley on DVD. I picked up this book in order to get a better feel of what writing suspense fiction is all about. This book provided me with the essentials of suspense without going on and on about the mechanics of it.
You won't find exercises or lists or specific techniques. Reading this book is similar to reading a novel, or just sitting down with a cup of coffee while an esteemed author tells you her experiences. If you want a book that goes more deeper into plotting, I would recommend more technical how-to books like PLOT (ELEMENTS OF FICTION WRITING) or SCENE AND STRUCTURE (also from ELEMENTS OF FICTION WRITING SERIES).
The reason why I enjoyed this book so much was because it offered insight into the craft that most writing books lack. She talks about some of the obstacles she had to overcome as a writer (such as the "foggy area three quarters into the book")and I found myself with more direction after reading. I also picked up some handy tips on organization and focus, as well as crafting a good hero-criminal.
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Title: How to Write Killer Fiction: The Funhouse of Mystery & the Roller Coaster of Suspense by Carolyn Wheat ISBN: 1880284626 Publisher: Daniel & Daniel Pub Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Beautiful Shadow : A Life of Patricia Highsmith by Andrew Wilson ISBN: 1582341982 Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Pub. Date: 15 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $32.50 |
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Title: Nothing That Meets the Eye: The Uncollected Stories of Patricia Highsmith by Patricia Highsmith ISBN: 0393325008 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Writing Mysteries: A Handbook by the Mystery Writers of America by Sue Grafton, Jan Burke, Barry Zeman, Mystery Writers of America ISBN: 1582971021 Publisher: Writers Digest Books Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: Beginnings, Middles & Ends (Elements of Fiction Writing) by Nancy Kress ISBN: 0898799058 Publisher: Writers Digest Books Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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