The Book That Changed My Life : Interviews with National Book Award Winners and Finalists

Rating:
Summary: Brilliant Book
Review: Diane Osen has done it again! In a brilliant followup to her previous book The Writing Life, Osen interviews National Book Award winners about the books that changed their lives. Each interview is a gem and it is clear that Osen has approached her subjects with the utmost scholarship and thoughtfulness.

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Summary: Very Disappointing
Review: I think this book was horribly mis-advertised. I expected essays written by the National Book Award winners themselves, describing their own literary loves and inspirations. Instead, this book is a collection of extremely mediocre interviews with these otherwise interesting and remarkable talents. There are precious few pages in this book that themselves inspire anything beyond ennui. To add insult to injury, the featured writers and every true bibliophile will be appaled at the poor quality of printing and materials used for this book. The mass-market paperback stock used seems highly inappropriate, even considering the marginal quality of the content.

Rating:
Summary: Very Disappointing
Review: I think this book was horribly mis-advertised. I expected essays written by the National Book Award winners themselves, describing their own literary loves and inspirations. Instead, this book is a collection of extremely mediocre interviews with these otherwise interesting and remarkable talents. There are precious few pages in this book that themselves inspire anything beyond ennui. To add insult to injury, the featured writers and every true bibliophile will be appaled at the poor quality of printing and materials used for this book. The mass-market paperback stock used seems highly inappropriate, even considering the marginal quality of the content.

Rating:
Summary: The title is a little misleading
Review: I thought this was a pretty good book - but not what I was looking for. I was hoping to read about books that changed these authors' lives, why they were so important, etc. The book is really more of a discussion of the authors' different views about literature in general, their approach to writing, how they develop characters, etc. It might be a good gift for someone really interested in the art of writing, but I was hoping for something else.

Rating:
Summary: The title is a little misleading
Review: I thought this was a pretty good book - but not what I was looking for. I was hoping to read about books that changed these authors' lives, why they were so important, etc. The book is really more of a discussion of the authors' different views about literature in general, their approach to writing, how they develop characters, etc. It might be a good gift for someone really interested in the art of writing, but I was hoping for something else.