99 Ways to Tell a Story : Exercises in Style
by Matt Madden
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Author: Matt MaddenEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2005-10-25
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Amazon Remainders Account
Book Reviews of 99 Ways to Tell a Story : Exercises in Style
Book Review: Boring and annoying
Summary: 2 Stars
The same one page action, told 99 times in 99 different ways (aka an exercise in style the Queneau way).
When "99 ways..." got out, I was curious enough to buy it (and obviously read it). Also, I liked the idea at the base, and I usually love "style exercises". But. Matt Madden fails completely at this divertissement. After a few pages, the exercise becomes rhetorical, and it lacks the imagination and creativity it would need. Yes, there are many ideas, but almost all of them are carried out in a rather mechanical (and possibly dull) way. And even the few good ones look highly undeveloped. In the end it was not only boring to read, but worst: it was annoying.
I would indeed recommend this book to people learning to make comics, but only to them. Though, given all the good reviews "99 ways..." got, maybe it's just me.
Summary of 99 Ways to Tell a Story : Exercises in Style
99 Ways to Tell a Story is a series of engrossing one-page comics that tell the same story ninety-nine different ways. Inspired by Raymond Queneau's 1947 Exercises in Style, a mainstay of creative writing courses, Madden's project demonstrates the expansive range of possibilities available to all storytellers. Readers are taken on an enlightening tour-sometimes amusing, always surprising -through the world of the story. Writers and artists in every media will find Madden's collection especially useful, even revelatory. Here is a chance to see the full scope of opportunities available to the storyteller, each applied to a single scenario: varying points of view, visual and verbal parodies, formal reimaginings, and radical shuffling of the basic components of the story. Madden's amazing series of approaches will inspire storytellers to think through and around obstacles that might otherwise prevent them from getting good ideas onto the page. 99 Ways to Tell a Story provides a model that will spark productive conversations among all types of creative people: novelists, screenwriters, graphic designers, and cartoonists.Book Subjects
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