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Lädt ... Wretched Writing: A Compendium of Crimes Against the English Language (2013. Auflage)von Kathryn Petras (Autor)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. When I picked up the book, I expected it to be filled with funny examples of bad writing, but also, given the amount of commentary surrounding the examples, to be filled with useful advice for good writing. Instead, I found maybe 70% of the examples to be mediocre rather than wretched, more dull than funny. The commentary surrounding the examples was snarky and prone to stating the obvious, as if the reader might not have understood that breasts in no way resemble snakes, for example. Really, I would have preferred if the book contained no commentary at all and the authors had instead put a pit more effort into compiling a few more wretched snippets. ( ) This book is a collection of bad writing...sometimes by highly successful authors. It is arranged alphabetically by theme, starting with "adjectives, excessive use of", and ending with "zoological sexual encounters". At times, I laughed out loud; other times, I cringed. There were some examples I couldn't even read all the way through. Entertaining. Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Wretched writing is the lowest of the low; it is a felonious assault on the English language. Exuberantly excessive, it is a sin committed often by amateurs and all-too-frequently by gifted writers having an off day. In short, it's very bad writing. Truly bad. Appallingly bad. It's also very funny. A celebration of the worst writing imaginable, Wretched Writing includes inadvertently filthy book titles, ridiculously overwrought passages from novels, bombastic and confusing speeches, moronic oxymorons, hyperactive hyperbole, horribly inappropriate imagery in ostensibly hot sex scenes, mangled clichés, muddled metaphors, and unintended double entendres. Sit back and enjoy these deliciously dreadful samples, and try not to cringe too much. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)808.02Literature By Topic Rhetoric and anthologies Rhetoric and anthologies Authorship techniques, plagiarism, editorial techniquesKlassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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