Wretched Writing: A Compendium of Crimes Against the English Language

by Kathryn Petras and Ross Petras

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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.

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.
  • ISBN10 039915924X
  • ISBN13 9780399159244
  • Publish Date 6 August 2013
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
  • Imprint TarcherPerigee