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Title: Bizarre, self-indulgent book
Review: The author spends a great deal of time listing the many flaws of his peers (sometimes abstracted into personae such as 'Senior Editor') and then proceeds to outline his crank theory of the elements of fiction. The book is not a total loss-- the ridiculously overblown prose is amusing in its own way. And there are a few useful ideas here and there. Still, given that this is the distilled wisdom of thirty years of experience, there's a certain pathos. The book is almost totally irrelevant.
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