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Title: Vastly Overrated
Review: Tendentious and outdated in the sense that Gardner's views on the mechanics of fiction come right out of English departments of the 1940's and 50's. And I know it's been said elsewhere, but his defaulting to the masculine personal pronoun is incredibly grating. And then there's the question of why we are supposed to care about the views of someone who was neither prolific nor especially successful himself as a writer of fiction? He makes a few interesting points, but overall it's a pretty tedious read.
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