Wretched Writing: A Compendium of Crimes Against the English Language

Author:   Ross Petras (Ross Petras) ,  Katherine Petras (Katherine Petras)
Publisher:   Penguin Putnam Inc
ISBN:  

9780399159244


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   06 August 2013
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Format:   Paperback
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Wretched Writing: A Compendium of Crimes Against the English Language


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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. 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 cliches, muddled metaphors, and unintended double entendres. Sit back and enjoy these deliciously dreadful samples, and try not to cringe too much.

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Author:   Ross Petras (Ross Petras) ,  Katherine Petras (Katherine Petras)
Publisher:   Penguin Putnam Inc
Imprint:   TarcherPerigee
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.196kg
ISBN:  

9780399159244


ISBN 10:   039915924
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   06 August 2013
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Ross Petras and Kathryn Petras are a brother-and-sister writing team, and the authors of the bestselling Stupidest series-which includes the #1 bestselling page-a-day calendar The 365 Stupidest Things Ever Said (now in its nineteenth year-with more than 4.5 million copies sold)-along with other books.

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