101 Best Scenes Ever Written: A Romp Through Literature for Writers and Readers (Paperback)

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Readers will delight at the best scenes ever written. They will find old favorites and savor scenes new to them. With each scene, Barnaby Conrad provides insights as to what the author wishes to accomplish with this passage and the literary devices he or she employs. Any avid reader will enjoy Conrad’s 101 Best Scenes Ever Written, but countless fledgling and established writers will benefit enormously by sampling and studying these gems from the masters of the written word.

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Barnaby Conrad is the bestselling author of Matador, Death of Manolete, and 101 Best Beginnings Ever Written, and a contributor for The Writer.

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Product Details Paperback: 244 pages Publisher: Linden Publishing (October 1, 2006) Language: English ISBN-10: 1884956564 ISBN-13: 978-1884956560 Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies) Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews) Amazon.com Sales Rank: #339,114 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Product Details

• Paperback: 244 pages
• Publisher: Linden Publishing (October 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1884956564
• ISBN-13: 978-1884956560
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #339,114 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Playwrights, in particular, will want this survey of what influences transform an ordinary scene to a great one., November 6, 2006

By	Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

Writers and readers alike will find much to love in 101 BEST SCENES EVER WRITTEN: A ROMP THROUGH LITERATURE FOR WRITERS AND READERS. Here works by Hemingway, Jack London, Steinbeck, Twain and other notables are surveyed with an eye to providing examples of some of the most memorable writing approaches in modern history. Playwrights, in particular, will want this survey of what influences transform an ordinary scene to a great one.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Pleasurable Book, March 18, 2008

By	David Richards (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

If not the "101 Best Scenes Ever Written"-still darn close. One of most pleasurable books I have ever read-still re-reading. Also led me to see some of the old movies these scences came from-which I had never seen. Barnaby Conrad is not a great story teller, yet always, an entertaining character worth reading.(and bullfighting afficionado-segundo a nadien)
Dave Richards
www.charlesspurgeon.net

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Need a broader selection, December 20, 2008

By	R. HIll "dcorner4now" (IN United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book is good but in a one-note fashion.

First, there aren't really 101 scenes. There are about 50 scenes that are given completely enough to recognize them as scenes. The remainder are presented as brief paragraphs. The discussion betweeen scenes is not particularly useful.

The scenes are divided into the categories: beginning, visual, action, adventure, war, romance, humor, horror, juveniles, and ending. The selection of scenes are acceptable, but the range of those fully presented is limited. There are classics (Twain, Stevenson, Defoe, Faulkner, Flaubert) and genre. The genre is from high volume writers of a couple of decades ago (Ludlum, Greene, Forsyth). What is notable is what is missing: scenes written by anyone other than a white male. There is one scene from Mitchell's Gone With The Wind and the rest of the scenes by women are in the Horror chapter. Tiresome! Where is Richard Wright, Anne Tyler,Sherman Alexie, Willa Cather? There are too many excellent writers whose drop-dead brillant scenes did not make this book.