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I have really mixed feelings about Snoopys Guide to the Writing Life. On one hand, its a fine collection of Peanuts comic strips devoted to Snoopys failed attempts to become a novelist; on the other hand, its also a ridiculously awful collection of some of the most simple-minded, unhelpful, self-promoting advice by professional writers ever collected between two covers.Among the contributors are such bestselling hacks as Danielle Steel, Clive Cussler and Sidney Sheldon, giving such worthless tips as pray a lot (Steel), dont use desperately boring description (Cussler), and begin with an idea you really, really like (Sheldon). And these writers essays are so short -- Sheldons is fourteen brief sentences -- that most need over-sized pull-quotes to beef them up. I know this sounds a bit like that old joke about the old Jewish lady who hates a particular restaurant because the foods terrible -- and the portions so small! -- but, really, how much wisdom can any writer, good or bad, convey about the writing life in fourteen sentences?There are a few better writers mixed in here, Elmore Leonard and Ray Bradbury among them, but even their entries are uninspiring. Leonard has a couple good lines -- Try to leave out the parts that readers skip, for one -- but theyve been recycled so many times, including in his own book on writing, that many if not most readers have probably already heard them. Perhaps the best lines contributed to this book by any writer come from John Updike, who turned down a request to participate: If I knew something that would make a crucial difference, I would keep it to myself, since the field is so overcrowded.But the professional writers mini essays are only part of Snoopys Guide to the Writing Life -- perhaps a fourth of the books total space. The rest is turned over to reprints of Peanuts strips, which are mostly brilliant and likely will evoke warm feelings in anyone who grew up reading Charles M. Schulzs comics. Given the nature of these strips -- most are of Snoopy sitting on the roof of his doghouse with his typewriter -- they have a sameness that makes them hard to read in one sitting. (Theyd fare better in a traditional anthology, mixed in with Lucy pulling away the football before Charlie Brown can kick it, Linus advising Charlie Brown on the pitchers mound, and Schroeder playing his toy piano.) Still, though, the unrelenting bleakness of the strips in this book -- the soul-crushing rejection letters Snoopy receives from publishers, the never-ending criticism from Lucy, Snoopys own self-aggrandizement immediately giving way to self-loathing -- never stops being enjoyable.Plus, theres one amazingly bizarre Peanuts strip in here that Ive never had the pleasure to come across before. In it, Woodstock sits on a tree stump staring off into space, and a clearly anguished Snoopy, leaning against an adjacent tree, thinks to himself, Youre emotionally bankrupt... Scott Fitzgerald was emotionally bankrupt... Were all emotionally bankrupt... Thats it. Thats the set-up, the punchline, the whole damned strip. This ran on on the funny pages?! Holy crap! Thats a thousand times more depressing than even the typical angst-ridden Peanuts strip. How many kids did we lose when they read this comic and immediately went into the kitchen and swallowed a bottle of Drano?Sadly, original publication dates for the Peanuts strips in this collection arent given, so linking childhood mortalities to that particular strip would be difficult. (The book uses the strips as an excuse for publishing the crappy essays that accompany them rather than serving as a showcase for the strips themselves, which would be preferred.) Fortunately, the all-time classic Snoopy-typing-atop-his-doghouse comic is included here: Snoopys story begins, It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly, a shot rang out! A door slammed. The maid screamed. Suddenly, a pirate ship appeared on the horizon! While millions of people were starving, the king lived in luxury. Meanwhile, on a small farm in Kansas, a boy was growing up. Then a pause, followed by, typed on the page, Part II, then Snoopy thinking to himself, In Part Two, I tie all of this together. Brilliant!Its a shame though that this book doesnt include a reprint of the 1971 Schulz book that strip inspired, Snoopy and It Was a Dark and Stormy Night, which is sadly out of print. Its inclusion would provide a far better service to readers than execrable writing advice from William F. Buckley Jr. and the creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul books.
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