Stalin simon sebag montefiore review5/21/2023 The most arresting image, for me, is opposite page 302. Indeed, the mug shot used on the book jacket has been circulated around the Internet under the words “ Young Stalin was hot,” and sparked one webpage of parody images of the young Communist that included a faux Cosmopolitan cover and an image titled “He’s fabulous…but he’s evil.” The lavish use of photos in this 2007 book adds to the perception of Stalin as someone who could fit well into a circle of friends - even the mug shots. While reading Young Stalin, I was struck by the very human and, at times, very attractive portrait that Simon Sebag Montefiore paints of Joseph Stalin.Īt various points in the narrative, Montefiore describes Stalin as someone who could be (a) gentle with children and (b) the singing-laughing life of a party and (c) irresistible to women and (d) an intrepid hunter in the winter wastes of Siberia and (e) a self-taught philosopher and (f) a vociferous reader and (g) an anthologized poet.
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The cat writes a novel5/21/2023 I’ll add in where this aligns with the Three-Act Structure and (parenthesis) for the Hero's Journey for comparison. Most folks convert the screenplay ratios into novel sizes and work from there. In a screenplay, these beats are so precise it even says what page they should happen on, but there's more flexibility in a novel. Snyder breaks down storytelling into three acts similar to the Three-Act Structure, with very specific turning points in each act (called beats) similar to the Hero's Journey. There's also a novel version, with Save the Cat! Writes a Novel. It's a great book to have on your shelf no matter what your process is, actually. (ya know, those copyright laws and everything). If this structure appeals to you, I recommend buying the Save the Cat book, which goes into more detail that I can do here. You'll notice how this also fits into the same basic story structure as what we looked at so far. 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