Charity
by Mark Richard
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Author: Mark RichardEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1999-08-17
ISBN: 0385425708
Number of pages: 160
Publisher: Anchor
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- ISBN13: 9780385425704
- Condition: New
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Book Review: Once a poser, always a poser
Summary: 2 Stars
Mark Richard is a would-be, a wanna-be, and a never will be. He's the Seth Morgan of the Iowa Writers Workshop. The definition of "literistic" is: nothing written from real experience, only faked to please the teachers of "Creative" Writing workshops. The Queen of this sort of garbage is Joyce Carol Oates. Ri-CHARD is giving it the good ole college try. Sure he's got talent, but talent is cheap. To cross genres here [and paraphrase Lester Bangs]: David Bowie had "talent," he could write good "songs," but did he ever write anything as good as "Woolly Bully"? Did any of Bowie's songs need to be sung? If I was a teacher I suppose I'd give Mark Richard an "A", but I'd never spend money on any of his books. [I did once.] It's all written to see himself in the mirror [and in others' regard] as the Author riding the perceived zeitgeist of his time. Not because any of it needed to be said. I give him two stars instead of one because he's better than Bradford Morrow or Ted Mooney, but that really ain't saying too much.
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