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Title: Watch out !
Review: Stay away of this book. I'm interested in writing in general, and I've read more then 40 books on the subject. This one doesn't have anything that you can not find in other books. It deals with screenwriting in pretty superficial way. Too many stories from D. B. Gilles' personal life and not much about structure, characterization and dialog. Although you can find chapters on these subjects, but when you read them, there is almost nothing inside. I was disappointed. Besides, it seems to me that among the first 10 reviewers at least 7 of them know D. B. Gilles personally (six of them are from N.Y. and so the writer - coincidence ?) and had written their reviews more or less on the same time. In my opinion, they look more like promotions and not like fair reviews.
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