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Readers will delight at the best scenes ever written. They will find old favorites and savor scenes new to them. With each scene, Barnaby Conrad provides insights as to what the author wishes to accomplish with this passage and the literary devices he or she employs. Any avid reader will enjoy Conrad's ""101 Best Scenes Ever Written,"" but countless fledgling and established writers will benefit enormously by sampling and studying these gems from the masters of the written word.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Quill Driver Books (October 1, 2006)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 239 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1884956564
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1884956560
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.14 x 0.69 x 9 inches
Reviewer: Sailor661
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Even if you are not a writer, it's nostalgic.
Review: Barnaby Conrad, an assistant an protege selected his most memorable scenes from primarily literature and cinema to instruct us on how to write a wonderful scene. Many you will remember, some choices will have you watching video or heading to the library. A totally enjoyable read. I learned without feeling like it.

Reviewer: Benjamin Hartin
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: great scenes, but questionable writing in-between
Review: It's a great idea for a book, but I find the author/compiler doesn't write well enough to just stay in the background of these works, instead it seems the attempt is to have great writing within all these great scenes - probably not a good idea unless you are an incredible author - but even then, who doesn't appreciate humility?

Reviewer: Don Reynolds
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Excellent examples of how the big boys and girls do ...
Review: Excellent examples of how the big boys and girls do it. Very enjoyable to read. Barnaby's comments are superb; just as is the case with his book: 101 Best Sex Scenes Ever Written. He left a significant vacancy in the world of literature and his wisdom is sorely missed.

Reviewer: arch_reviews
Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The scenes selected seemed arbitrary and clearly were deemed the best by the author and not some ratings board or ...
Review: A survey of a bunch of scenes with light commentary on why they worked. I didn't find the book entertaining or instructive and I disagreed with much of what the author presented as to why a certain scene should be written a certain way to aid in dramatic effect.Subtitled as a romp through literature for writers and readers, however the book draws heavily from not only literature but movies and film scripts. The scenes selected seemed arbitrary and clearly were deemed the best by the author and not some ratings board or agency. I personally didn't have a problem with that little quibble, but only thought the books title misrepresented what it was.Overall, I didn't find it instructive or helpful as a writer and I found it only marginally enjoyable as a reader. I think that if it stuck to what it promised, literature, and was more thorough in the scene deconstruction, I might have gotten more from it. I wished I could have rated it higher.

Reviewer: Anna G. R.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A Pleasurable Book
Review: If not the "101 Best Scenes Ever Written"-still darn close. One of most pleasurable books I have ever read-still re-reading. Also led me to see some of the old movies these scences came from-which I had never seen. Barnaby Conrad is not a great story teller, yet always, an entertaining character worth reading.(and bullfighting afficionado-segundo a nadien)Dave Richards[...]

Reviewer: R. HIll
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Need a broader selection
Review: This book is good but in a one-note fashion.First, there aren't really 101 scenes. There are about 50 scenes that are given completely enough to recognize them as scenes. The remainder are presented as brief paragraphs. The discussion betweeen scenes is not particularly useful.The scenes are divided into the categories: beginning, visual, action, adventure, war, romance, humor, horror, juveniles, and ending. The selection of scenes are acceptable, but the range of those fully presented is limited. There are classics (Twain, Stevenson, Defoe, Faulkner, Flaubert) and genre. The genre is from high volume writers of a couple of decades ago (Ludlum, Greene, Forsyth). What is notable is what is missing: scenes written by anyone other than a white male. There is one scene from Mitchell's Gone With The Wind and the rest of the scenes by women are in the Horror chapter. Tiresome! Where is Richard Wright, Anne Tyler,Sherman Alexie, Willa Cather? There are too many excellent writers whose drop-dead brillant scenes did not make this book.

Reviewer: River Man
Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars
Title: An interesting mess
Review: Mr. Conrad has a fascinating idea here, but his execution is crazy. As noted elsewhere, many of his excerpts are absurdly short, and he talks in between every example. He should have trusted his idea and let the scenes do the talking.And it's beyond absurd that he includes a long excerpt from his own work.