Guest Review: The Salinger Contract - Adam Langer
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Review: The Salinger Contract - Adam Langer - September 2013
When an author can climb into my head and read my thoughts, knows what I
want, from the get go, the book will be ravished, giving up everything
near and dear to make it a one-sitting experience. This book was one of
those.
The book is an experienced view of the current publishing world - the plummeting book sales, the blogging phenomenon, the influence of online reviews being often less forgiving than the printed versions, the wheeling and dealing behind the scenes.
Two ingenious tales are snaked through the narrative, involving two authors with both their families being trapped in an existential panic. They are basically honest people pushed to their limits forced to make choices they wouldn't have made under ordinary circumstances
Books can safe or destroy lives.
Sometimes in fiction you had to mute reality in order to make it seem more believable.
Five flashing stars for this brilliant story! There is not a single dull moment anywhere in this book. I could not stop reading it until it was all finished. I am definitely an Adam Langer fan after reading this book.
This book should be read by EVERYONE: wanna-be authors, reviewers and readers alike. The story in itself is a fast flowing suspense drama incorporating highly interesting background of the publishing industry. There is lots to enjoy and learn from this book.
The book is an experienced view of the current publishing world - the plummeting book sales, the blogging phenomenon, the influence of online reviews being often less forgiving than the printed versions, the wheeling and dealing behind the scenes.
Two ingenious tales are snaked through the narrative, involving two authors with both their families being trapped in an existential panic. They are basically honest people pushed to their limits forced to make choices they wouldn't have made under ordinary circumstances
Books can safe or destroy lives.
Sometimes in fiction you had to mute reality in order to make it seem more believable.
Five flashing stars for this brilliant story! There is not a single dull moment anywhere in this book. I could not stop reading it until it was all finished. I am definitely an Adam Langer fan after reading this book.
This book should be read by EVERYONE: wanna-be authors, reviewers and readers alike. The story in itself is a fast flowing suspense drama incorporating highly interesting background of the publishing industry. There is lots to enjoy and learn from this book.
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