Title: GREAT BOOK--"Northwest" review is spurned writer.
Product review: THE FIRST FIVE PAGES is one of the best books on writing I've ever read.Don't be swayed by the review from the "Northwest", which is not only wrong, but factually incorrect. He says the "whole first two thirds of the book are devoted to pointers like don't have misspellings or draw on your manuscript," which is completely untrue. Those two topics are never even raised in the book.He claims the book has "no specifics and finer distinctions about what distinguishes good writing from poor" - but this is exactly what the entire book is devoted to. In fact, there is an entire chapter devoted just to "Subtlety" and another chapter devoted to a subtle topic, "Tone."This guy sounds like a spurned writer to me. The First Five Pages is one of the best books on writing there is.
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