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Title: Snoopy's Guide to the Writing Life by Barnaby Conrad, Monte Schultz, Monte Schulz ISBN: 1-58297-194-3 Publisher: Writers Digest Books Pub. Date: September, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An engaging collection of writing anecdotes and insights
Comment: Collaboratively compiled and edited by award winning short story writer Barnaby Conrad and novelist Monte Schulz (who is also the son of the "Peanuts" comic strip creator Charles M. Schulz), Snoopy's Guide To The Writing Life is an engaging collection of writing anecdotes and insights drawn from over thirty of the world's most popular writers, including Danielle Steel, Ray Bradbury, and William F. Buckley Jr. But perhaps the real star of the book is Snoopy and the Peanuts gang, featured in timeless comic strips about Snoopy's struggle to write the Great American (Dog's) Novel, as well as the other kids' attempts to construct literate book reports. Replete with a wealth of humorous, insightful, and filled with practical tips, Snoopy's Guide To The Writing Life is highly recommended reading for both aspiring writers and "Peanuts" fans.
Rating: 4
Summary: For entertainment only - but what great fun!
Comment: Any writer looking for deep words from the large (and highly respected) group of writers featured in "Snoopy's Guide to the Writing Life" will come away disappointed. But for those writers who are looking for a laugh and a breezy escape featuring personal writing tales from the likes of William F. Buckley, Ed McBain, Danielle Steel, Julia Child, Ray Bradbury and Elmore Leonard, this book fills the bill as well as anything out there.
A handsome book with a clean layout, quality semigloss stock, and a good binding, the showpieces are the delightful Charles Schultz "Peanuts" strips featuring Snoopy in his hopeless Writer persona. Each one is funnier than the next, and as brought together in one place provide an overview of Snoopy's writing strips that I have not found in any other collection. (The strips span the latter half of the comic's run as Snoopy's Writer didn't show up until the Seventies.)
Schultz skewers just about every genre of writing, nails the agonies and ecstasies of rejection and acceptance, and does more with "It was a dark and stormy night" than seems humanly possible. If you are a writer and can't laugh at Snoopy's pathetic talents, you need to get out of the profession! Nonwriters might find the author anecdotes just a distraction from the humor in the strips, but what a wonderful distraction.
So sure, it fails to be a writer's workshop, sacrificing technical knowhow for mirth, but still, how can you lose? I can think of far worse ways for a writer to spend a few hours than reading this little piece of escapism.
A three star book with a four star soul thanks to Schultz's keen eye and Snoopy's aplomb.
Rating: 5
Summary: It was a dark and stormy review...
Comment: "Snoopy's Guide to the Writing Life" is a tribute to Charles Schulz, the late great creator of the Peanuts comic strip and its famous beagle-with-a-typewriter, Snoopy. The book is filled with various strips lampooning all sorts of aspects of writing, and tiny snippets of advice from famous authors.
The strips in this book are so funny that I had to share many of them with my husband as I read. Particularly all the ones that have within them some variation of the line: "It was a dark and stormy night." Snoopy seemed fixated on that idea, unable to get past it to anything more original than "it was a dark and stormy noon," or perhaps, "he was a dark and stormy knight."
And in between all of these stormy nights we get to see Snoopy's clashes with editors and publishers of all kinds: "Dear Contributor, We are returning your dumb story. Note that we have not included our return address. We have moved to a new office, and we don't want you to know where we are." Ouch! All writers can identify with some part of the poor beagle's struggles for fame, recognition, and a fifty thousand dollar check!
I was a bit surprised to find out just how short most of these little essays are--a few paragraphs, generally. On the other hand, it meant there was more room for comic strips, so how can I complain? This book isn't meant to be an exhaustive textbook or guide to the writing life. It's a joyful riff on the pain, excitement, and perspiration that is writing. You're bound to find something in here by a writer you love, and it's neat just to see what these preeminent folks have to say. Each essay is preceded by a related comic strip, and many of the essays address Snoopy or one of his friends directly, or mention poor Snoopy's latest plight--it's an endearing conceit. Each is then followed by several more strips just to keep us laughing.
This is a wonderful coffee table book. It's a great gift for your favorite struggling, would-be, or even successful writer. All of us can relate to Snoopy's trials and tribulations. All of us can enjoy seeing these brief words of wisdom from such accomplished authors. And all of us could use a good laugh at ourselves and the "hardships" we endure in the writing life!
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Title: Oh Friend Of Friends: Peanuts On Friendship by Charles M. Schulz ISBN: 0740719165 Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Pub. Date: 02 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Being A Dog Is A Full Time Job by Charles M. Schulz ISBN: 0836217462 Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Pub. Date: 01 April, 1994 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: "It Was a Dark and Stormy Night, Snoopy" by CHARLES M. SCHULZ ISBN: 0345442725 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 02 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: My Sweet Babboo :Peanuts On Love by Charles M. Schulz ISBN: 0740719173 Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Pub. Date: 02 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Take A Hike, Snoopy! by Judy Katschke, Charles M. Schulz ISBN: 0689849389 Publisher: Little Simon Pub. Date: 01 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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