An interesting Danielle Steel

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	• Honor Thyself Danielle Steel Delacorte Press, 2008 - 336 pages view larger image
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An interesting Danielle Steel

Just when you think it will be the same old same old Steel fools you with some interesting insights.

I'm 1/3 way through

This is the first time I've read Danielle Steel. I have read a lot of books about writing novels though. She seems to be breaking numerous novel 101 rules! But I keep thinking she can get away with it because she is Danielle Steel. If I wrote this, I would be filing numerous rejection letters right now.

I don't mean to be so cruel. It is keeping my interest and I want to keep reading to see what happens to Carole and her family. But everything in her past is WAY too perfect. And then, conveniently enough, she is a victim of a terrorist attack in romantic Paris (right near the Louvre!) - an attack that the Arab world is heartbroken about ... and the injury is to her brain stem. The area that affects memory. (Where did she get that from? Web MD?) And the big-fat-shove-it-down-your-throat-you-novice rule "show don't tell" apparently doesn't apply to Steel's writing. I'm shocked how much she just puts out there and the number of cliches in her writing. Just shocked.

And, gosh, every man that ever had a kiss with her is still smitten beyond belief like 100 years later. oooo ... kay!

I feel totally like Simon Cowell, but I'm just trying to keep it real and put it out there.

Let's hope it keeps me intrigued till the end. But I'm starting to think it is becoming something of a commodity and no longer art.

Okay ... update May 8, 2008

I made it to page 167 ... more than halfway through. But I've completely lost interest. I could care less what happens to the main character (I've already forgotten her name.) I'm returning it to the library today. Thank goodness I didn't spend my money on it.

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