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Title: For Snoopy fans only
Review: Other books have tried this same concept and succeeded more: Naomi Epel's "Writers Dreaming," "The Best Writing on Writing" edited by Jack Heffron, the essays in the annual "Writer's Handbook," or even Frederick Busch's "Letters to a Fiction Writer."The twist here is the Snoopy comics - and there are many in this book. Snoopy, the Literary Ace, is a favorite of mine, but I limited the stars due to the lack of substance in the text, particularly for the price! I read it twice, and the book is so unfocused, minimalistic, and generic in its approach as to be useless. The writers represent everything from sci-fi to self-help yet there is suprisingly little writing advice or even reminiscences an aspiring writer might relate to or learn from. It's more like snippets collected at a literary cocktail party.For HUMOR about writing, I'd recommend this book. For anything more meaty, I'd recommend the books previously mentioned.
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