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vlcorton's review against another edition
4.0
Corto pero muy completo. Esta recopilación de ensayos sobre la escritura plantea ideas muy interesantes, desde la importancia de las palabras que un autor escoge a la hora de transmitir ideas a un lector, o la musicalidad de las mismas, que puede ser agradable o cacofónica al oído (tanto si se lee en voz baja o en voz alta), además de una manera de evocar sonidos de la naturaleza, por ejemplo. Me ha gustado mucho, y más teniendo en cuenta las fechas en que fueron escritos. Stevenson fue un pionero en esto de escribir "manuales de escritura" que tanto abundan hoy día y tantos consejos dan. Hemos de tener en cuenta que en 1905 (y probablemente antes) ya se daban.
vudemn's review against another edition
3.0
Glavna mana knjige je upravo iluzoran naslov koji navodi na pogrešno, prvenstveno jer je broj eseja o umetnosti pisanja veoma mali, tri otprilike(as i recall). Pored toga tu je gomila putopisa, onaj ko poznaje Stivensonov život zna da je imao ozbiljne zdravstene probleme, pa samim tim tražio odgovarajuće klimatske uslove za njegov život.
Upravo ta putešestvija su rezultovala u pisanju gomile putopisa, impresija i sitnih priča udaljenih mesta širom sveta ali koliko god ona bila slikovita, realna pa ponekad i očaravajuća, fali joj nešto... nešto što je Stivenson uveo u svoje velike romane, a to je upravo poseban ambijent, emocija. Zato je meni bilo naročito mučno za vreme čitanja ove knjige pogotovo jer sam upravo očekivao većinu eseja o umetnosti pisanja.
Pored tih uvodnih eseja,(kao i onaj o Ostrvu s Blagom) poslednji ostavlja priličan utisak, tako da oni koji bi želeli da osete Stivensona at his best, preporučujem upravo tu nekolicinu... vidim da se srpsko izdanje razlikuje od engleskog s tim što su upravo u naše ubacili te putopise(misleading sons of bitches) ali nebitno.
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Upravo ta putešestvija su rezultovala u pisanju gomile putopisa, impresija i sitnih priča udaljenih mesta širom sveta ali koliko god ona bila slikovita, realna pa ponekad i očaravajuća, fali joj nešto... nešto što je Stivenson uveo u svoje velike romane, a to je upravo poseban ambijent, emocija. Zato je meni bilo naročito mučno za vreme čitanja ove knjige pogotovo jer sam upravo očekivao većinu eseja o umetnosti pisanja.
Pored tih uvodnih eseja,(kao i onaj o Ostrvu s Blagom) poslednji ostavlja priličan utisak, tako da oni koji bi želeli da osete Stivensona at his best, preporučujem upravo tu nekolicinu... vidim da se srpsko izdanje razlikuje od engleskog s tim što su upravo u naše ubacili te putopise(misleading sons of bitches) ali nebitno.
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aminowrimo's review against another edition
2.0
Read because it's on the subject of a 'hobby' I love, (YLTO! 'S Getting to Know You challenge), and because it's old enough to be found on FreeBooks, this is a collection of essays on writing by Robert Louis Stevenson.
The first: On Some Technical Elements of Style in Literature, can be found in basically any book on writing, with perhaps less entertaining metaphor (juggling oranges), but definitely with easier to understand style.
The second: The Morality of the Profession of Letters, can be summed up in: "Those who work primarily for money don't have good writing," and is true of just about every profession.
The third: Books Which Have Influenced Me, is interesting because it suggests other books people might want to read.
The fourth: A Note on Realism, is exactly that.
The fifth: My First Book: [b:Treasure Island|295|Treasure Island|Robert Louis Stevenson|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1312023209s/295.jpg|3077988], is information as to how Stevenson came up with Treasure Island. I think when writers are asked "How do you come up with your ideas," what the questioner really means to ask is, "How did you come up with this idea? And that's what this answers.
The sixth: The Genesis of "The Master of Ballantrae", is about the same as the above.
The seventh: Preface to "The Master of Ballantrae", I think is meant to be part of "The Master of Ballantrae."
All in all, probably not worth a read in total. Though the last three and the third might be of interest to those who have read and liked his works, the others feel a bit too flowery, and by the time you decipher the language, you've lost interest in the message.
ninette's review against another edition
3.0
Some of the Essays are a bit tedious - particularly the first ones. I kept wondering what I had gotten myself into, and whether or not I should just put it aside and let it be. However, there is also the one about the process of writing his first novel - Treasure Island - that was so immensely interesting that it almost made up for the other ones. So if you're mainly interested in his writing habits and process, you might wanna skip ahead and just read the last three. Though the one about the books that influenced him might also be worth a look.
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