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Wretched Writing

Ross Petras

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.

GenresEnglish & College SuccessEnglishComposition

214 pages, 2 editions

English edition · First published 2013 by Penguin US · ISBN 9780399159244

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2 editions

English

  • Wretched writing · Penguin US · 2013 · ISBN 9780399159244 This page
  • Wretched Writing · Penguin US · 2013 · ISBN 9781101624975

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