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Tag Archives: Anita Brookner

The Seven Basic Plots

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GARRY CRAIG POWELL

Author of  Stoning the Devil

26 AUGUST 2015 The Seven Basic Plots

The Seven Basic Plots by Christopher Booker
Review by Garry Craig Powell

Subtitled Why we tell stories, this book, which took the author 34 years to write, is not only Booker’s magnum opus, but one the great works of contemporary criticism. Building on Jungian archetypal psychology (and who isn’t a Jungian?) Booker’s thesis is that we read stories because we need to, in order to make sense of our lives, and more specifically because stories provide us with a blueprint for what Jung called individuation. For this reason, he contends, stories from all over the world, whether folktales or highly refined literary forms such as epic poetry or the modernist novel, or for that matter lowbrow entertainments like the James Bond movies, all tend to follow one of seven basic plots.

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The Subjectivity of Reading: How Do Your Favorite Books Fare on Amazon?

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GARY GARTH MCCANN

Author of Young and in Love , The Shape of the Earth , The Man Who Asked To Be Killed and six stories, three online at “A House Where We Both Could Live,” Chelsea Station,  “Incorrigible,” Erotic Review and “The Yearbook,” Mobius

20 JULY 2014 The Subjectivity of Reading: How Do Your Favorite Books Fare on Amazon?

THE SUBJECTIVITY OF READING: HOW DO YOUR FAVORITE BOOKS FARE ON AMAZON?

I noticed recently that one of my favorite books, Anita Brookner’s Booker Prize-winning Hotel Du Lac, averages only 3.7 stars with 82 Amazon reviewers. Not a terrible rating, but surprisingly low to me since I love the book. Amazon features this sentence, quoted from one of the reviews: “The main character was dull and not very likeable, but that may have been the point.” Amazon adds, “10 reviewers made similar comments.”

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