So this person had to read it all the way to the end to make sure it was as bad as he thought it was at the beginning. I salute his tenacity! (And cringe at his taste - and writing ability).
A writer, ghostwriter, écrivain public, literary historian and bibliophile, I'm the author of Character Parts: Who's Really Who in CanLit (Knopf, 2003), and A Gentleman of Pleasure: One Life of John Glassco, Poet, Translator, Memoirist and Pornographer (McGill-Queen's UP, 2011; shortlisted for the Gabrielle Roy Prize). I've edited over a dozen books, including The Heart Accepts It All: Selected Letters of John Glassco (Véhicule, 2013) and George Fetherling's The Writing Life: Journals 1975-2005 (McGill-Queen's UP, 2013). I currently serve as series editor for Ricochet Books and am a contributing editor for Canadian Notes & Queries. My most recent book is The Dusty Bookcase (Biblioasis, 2017), a collection of revised and expanded reviews first published here and elsewhere.
Should have used speel-check.
ReplyDeleteSo this person had to read it all the way to the end to make sure it was as bad as he thought it was at the beginning. I salute his tenacity! (And cringe at his taste - and writing ability).
ReplyDeleteThe tenacity is admirable, though I imagine many words were skipped over.
ReplyDeleteThe last line almost sounds like an endorsement.
ReplyDeleteConsidering the subject matter, and the newly minted words, such as "undescribable," I think Sarah Palin wrote this one.
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