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Publish This Book: The Unbelievable True Story Of How I Wrote, Sold, And Published This Very Book (2010)

by Stephen Markley(Favorite Author)

3.71 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1402229356 (ISBN13: 9781402229350)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Sourcebooks

review 1: I don't like reading long-ass reviews and I don't like writing them either. So here's the gist:Anyone interested in writing and publishing their own book should read this. It's not a how-to manual, but it captures the trials and tribulations of aspiring authors in a unique way. (Also, if you're not interested in writing you should still read it. If only for the toilet humor.)If nothing else, you can probably learn a thing or two from Markley's writing style. He's talented, insightful and has a way with words he doesn't even know yet.It's laugh-out-loud hilarious. Especially during the first few chapters I found myself snort-laughing like a thirteen-year-old boy and professing to random strangers that "This Markley guy is a goddamn genius!"There were some parts where I felt... more he was trailing off a bit and I started wondering if all of it had a point or if he just got stuck recounting his own life. It all made sense in the end, though, and I can say that this is definitely one of those books that will stay with me forever.I for one am very thankful this book got published.
review 2: I did not find this book funny. I found it inane, obnoxious, and overwrought in every place it possibly could be. I went in hoping to pick up some snippet of insight to the process of publishing a book, but this book taught me nothing I didn't already know. Of course, publishing a book is a personalized process that is different for everyone who goes through it, the process varies according to a lot of different things: the writer, the material, agents, publishers, etc. But this book acts like it's THE ONE experience that everyone who publishes a book will have.Also, he writes the book as a memoir so aside from the few miniscule sections where he speaks of his publishing experience we learn of his sophomoric, frat-boy lifestyle, his douche-bag friends, his perverse, trying-too-hard-to-be-funny thoughts, and all the minute and pointless conversations he and his idiot friends have at pubs. I also noticed the author often used opportunities to make cliche homophobic wisecracks that were not only dumb the first time, but recycled throughout this book as comic goold... less

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