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SO painful. What he has to say about the craft of writing and the way he writes are both great! But his examples, his insistence on circling around humanist ideas and evolution are a dead weight. He uses loads of writing examples in every chapter and has mentioned something pertaining to evolution in almost every chapter. Fabre was the exception.

Got to Ch 7: Art and Artists. I'm happy again. Freaking Zinsser is just oof. Dude is a million times better than Adler but whyyyyy didn't anyone love him into mystery and sacraments? He could have been a missionary. It's like he's perpetually stuck in the grumpy and/or bitter lemon stage and never figured out forgiveness. Sigh

I continue to have mixed feelings about Zinsser. This book began so strongly, but then he decided to begin referencing excellent humanist scientists to use as examples of great writing. That wasn't the bad part. It was when he carelessly mentioned Feynman's book as an example of poor writing while -in perfect snob fashion- complimenting Feynman's physics genius I started to feel icky. Writing books are perplexing.