Wretched Writing

Wretched Writing A Compendium of Crimes Against the English Language

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Publisher's Synopsis

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 clichés, muddled metaphors, and unintended double entendres.

Sit back and enjoy these deliciously dreadful samples, and try not to cringe too much.

Book information

ISBN: 9780399159244
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Imprint: Perigee Books
Pub date:
Edition: First edition
DEWEY: 808.020207
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 224
Weight: 454g
Height: 210mm
Width: 140mm
Spine width: 15mm