Wretched Writing : : a Compendium of Crimes Against the English Language
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Includes index.
"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 cliche muddled metaphors, and unintended double entendres. Sit back and enjoy these deliciously dreadful samples, and try not to cringe too much"-- Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
New York, New York : A Perigee book, published by the Penguin Group, 2013.
Year Published: 2013
Description: ix, 214 pages ; 23 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780399159244
039915924X
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Petras, Kathryn.
SUBJECTS
Authorship -- Humor.
English language -- Style -- Humor.
English language -- Humor.
Style, Literary -- Humor.
Clichés.