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Author:
Petras, Ross.
Title:
Wretched writing : a compendium of crimes against the English language / Ross Petras and Kathryn Petras.
Edition:
First edition.
Publisher:
A Perigee bookpublished by the Penguin Group,
Copyright Date:
2013
Description:
ix, 214 pages ; 23 cm
Subject:
Authorship--Humor.
English language--Style--Humor.
English language--Humor.--Humor.
Style, Literary--Humor.
Clichés.
Other Authors:
Petras, Kathryn.
Notes:
Includes index.
Summary:
"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.
ISBN:
039915924X (pbk.)
9780399159244 (pbk.)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)796756352
LCCN:
2013009307
Locations:
BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)
TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)
TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)
EZPE755 -- Le Mars Public Library (Le Mars)
AAPF906 -- Ottumwa Public Library (Ottumwa)
VCPD034 -- Robey Memorial Library-Waukon (Waukon)

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