Wretched Writing: A Compendium of Crimes Against the English Language

By Kathryn Petras and Ross Petras

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039915924X
• ISBN13: 9780399159244
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher