Where Books and Readers Come Together
“On the days of false spring it was very nice, after boxing and taking a shower, to walk along the streets smelling the spring in the air and stop at a cafe to sit and watch people and read the paper and drink vermouth; then go down to the hotel and have lunch with Catherine.”
Robert McKee is one of those rare gems that illuminate the craft of writing like none other.
A guide for writers based on the work of Joseph Campbell and the years of research and contribution to storytelling Vogler spent in Hollywood.
Who is going to murder Nicola Six?
The book begins in the late 1980s with Kathy Nicolo, a former drug addict and alcoholic, being wrongly evicted from her home.
The classics are “classics” because they are written in a style that is no longer preferred.
One of the last sections is “The Functioning of Myth” and Campbell goes into great deal to extrapolate the introductory section. “The ends for which men strive in the world,” writes Campbell, “are three — no more, no less; namely: love and pleasure (kāma), power and success (artha: pronounced ‘art-ha’), and lawful order and moral virtue (dharma).”
Much of the book is loosely based on experiences of racism in Monroeville, Alabama.
One of the nice perks of this book is that Tobias includes quotes by other authors to introduce the chapters.
The Great Gatsby (1925) by Francis Scott Fitzgerald could arguably be the great American novel often desired and debated among readers and writers.
The story mostly takes place in Paris in 1938-1939.
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Dr. Azar Nafisi is a memoir of a woman teaching literature in Islamic Iran.
If you want to find out what REALLY happened to Rambo, then you’ll just have to read the book.
“Your generalization is beautifully epigrammatic.”
