--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Allan Guthrie" <allan@...> wrote:
>
> Here's an example of something written in a "relentlessly
commercial" style.
> No prizes for guessing where it comes from -- one of the most
relentlessly
> commercial novels ever.
Thank you, Allan... this is classically bad stuff. Sometimes I browse
books in the "fiction" section of a bookstore (which excludes
hardboiled, excludes us, mind you) and when I see the adjectives and
adverbs and the lungeds and the shockinglys and the deprecatinglys and
the softly whispereds, I quickly put the book down. It turns me off.
It reminds me of infomercials, the lowest known species of writing.
Best,
mrt
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