Date: Sep. 4th, 2012 05:10 pm (UTC)
See that I can get behind! It's a pretty word, I just agree with you that it's inappropriate for the context the reviewer used it in.

Yeah, I find with people who write like that, you can fix a lot of the run-on sentences if you just take out the phrases that repeat the same idea in a slightly different way. They seem to have a rate of approximately three repeated ideas per sentence. And besides, why use one adjective or adverb where four will surely make you sound more erudite. They're basically wannabe-academic hipsters-- or wannabe-hipster academics, I'm not sure which.

They remind me of the people in the writing classes I used to take. The one with the prof who said the more you torture your characters the better a story is, or the one where I gave up on trying to argue that Wuthering Heights isn't a love story after she said "I wish someone would love me enough to hate me that much someday."

Just remember that they hated this cold, shriveled husk of an "every man for himself" dog-eat-dog cutthroat crapsack world (you know, the one they created from having that attitude!) BEFORE it was cool.

AS FOR ME, PLEASE PASS THE HUMANISM. NO NO, A LITTLE MORE, LESS "EXTRANEOUS" AND MORE "SHAMELESS." THERE, THAT'S GOOD. WITH A LEMON TWIST.
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