I really enjoy Kenneth C Davis' books. Since I write a blog and am working on my next manuscript, I bought this for a little inspiration and fun reading. I didn't get much out of it. The bios of the authors were short and bland. The follow up questions were pretty easy. If I leaned anything, I won't remember it because of the format. I didn't rate it high because I didn't learn anything substantial. Maybe the next Davis book, I'll rate higher. Part of the Don't Know Much About series, this is simply an okay sort of trivia style book about literature with a consistent two page pattern: PAGE ONE:Don't know much about X, a paragraph about X, and questions about X -- and PAGE TWO: answers about X. There isn't much to say about this book other than here are some topics that equal the "X" referred to in the previous statement: Fictional First Lines, Charlotte's Web, Dracula, Ernest Hemingway, Robert Frost, Victor Hugo, Gone with the Wind, To Kill A Mockingbird,Edith Wharton, The Pulitzer, Jack London, Hawthorne, Rushdie, Borges, Joyce, Ayn Rand, Nobel First, Dickens, Christmas Classics, Last Lines... I don't think this is a sound way to "learn" much, but like the Goodreads Neverending Quiz, this can be entertaining to explore what info might or might not already be in your head.
What do You think about Edebiyattan Pek Anlamam (2009)?
Lots of interesting literary trivia - and we all know I love trivia....especially about books
—JacobMc
I don't enjoy this quiz format in this book as much as the other books in the series.
—Lyssa22
Fun, interesting info, but the quiz/answer format is annoying. Too much page turning.
—tralala
