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The Seven Deadly Words of Book Reviewing: Guilty as Charged
March 29, 2008 in book reviews
I was in the middle of slogging through several book reviews for work, mining each one for quotes, when I came across this Paper Cuts article on the seven most over-used and abused words in book reviews. It’s so spot-on—you’d be surprised by how few books haven’t been called “compelling” or “lyrical.”
My favorite part of this article are the comments, where readers make their own book review jargon nominations. The best comment:
IT’S SO TRUE.
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