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Wretched Writing: A Compendium Of Crimes Against The English Language (2013)

by Kathryn Petras(Favorite Author)

3.05 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

039915924X (ISBN13: 9780399159244)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Perigee Trade

review 1: I wanted this to be funnier than it was. Instead, I found myself doing a lot of skimming--a boring passage isn't any less boring to read because you've transported it to another book. There were some entertaining bits, but not enough commentary or direction to make the book interesting. It was more "here is a bad piece of writing, here is another." I also thought it was silly to include pieces of writing from the past that were fine at their time, but "wretched" now because of word changes. Most of them were still actually fine as long as you got your mind out of the gutter.Overall, a disappointment. I did rather like the ending bit, but not enough to recommend this to anyone.
review 2: Not as funny as I expected. Too much emphasis on sexual themes. I've read o... morether books on a similar theme that are much better, such as Richard Lederer's Anguished English and others by him. Lederer is laugh-out-loud funny.I'm glad I got this from the library, and I recommend you do the same if you want to read it. Some of it is okay.There's an index so you can check if an author you like is in here.I do like that the authors credit the author of the quote and give the book or document it came from. less

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