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Title: Morning Pages: The Almost True Story of My Life by Joseph Sutton ISBN: 0-88739-292-X Publisher: Creative Arts Book Co Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)

Rating: 3
Summary: It's a guy thing...
Comment: It seemed like a prescription for enjoyment. The main character and I are the same age, have lived and travelled in some of the same places, and were even at the University of Oregon at the same time. I also write all the time though I don't have a burning passion to publish.

Did I like the book? It was only OK. I appreciated the short chapters that took me into other spaces at lunch hour. But, it was a familiar whimper without any breakthrough thoughts for me. California angst. Middle-aged angst. Writer's angst. Self-help angst.

Perhaps my lack of enthusiasm was due to my gender. For a woman it's interesting to be inside the mind of a guy, but in this case I was happy when the well-written denouement finally came and I closed this book. I would rather be rereading Arthur Rosenfeld (!!!) or Craig Carozzi for male points of view.

Sutton should keep writing; he has a lot to say to some people. I'm just not on his wavelength.

Rating: 5
Summary: More Than Writer's Block
Comment: Joe is the master of the personal essay. In a handful of pages, he tells a small tale and ends each with an epiphany.

You can buy this book to see someone work through a case of writer's block. But I would highly recommend it if you want to read some small masterpieces which happen to have been written at the rate of three pages a day.

Rating: 5
Summary: Great Read!! Funny, Thoughtful, Real
Comment: Morning Pages is about a longtime writer with writer's block. It's a great tie-in with Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way and with the novels of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and William Saroyan. Cameron says to write three pages as fast as you can each morning upon rising for twelve weeks to silence the internal censor, thereby melting the writer's block. Garcia Marquez writes five pages daily, even stopping mid-sentence at the end of the fifth page. Ben Halaby, the protagonist, writes about his block as he is writing a book. The evolution of a novel is a protagonist as well˜˜Halaby doesn't even realize he's writing one! It is fascinating and deeply moving in that Halaby's whole life seeps onto the page. You get a sense of a man's view of the world growing up in America in the second half of the 20th Century. Reading Morning Pages was like eating my favorite dessert. I couldn't eat it fast enough and was afraid of finishing it.