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From reading some of the reviews, sounds like a repetitious word is the least of this book's problems. Think I'll pass on this one.
I know what you mean. I think that it's partly poor editing and partly to do with the way that our minds work and pick up on patterns. Strangely repeated words can show up even in the best of books. I remember that when reading Perdido Street Station, I kept noticing the word "skein." It seemed like an odd word to use over and over - but I think that partly I noticed it because I'm a knitter. Is the word "girly" a particular pet-peeve of yours? I think that if used repeatedly it would bug me a lot, too. Maybe it made it past the editing process because it was deemed to be Kasper's "catch phrase" or something. Did you finish the book?
Erin wrote: "I know what you mean. I think that it's partly poor editing and partly to do with the way that our minds work and pick up on patterns. Strangely repeated words can show up even in the best of books..."before this book I never even gave the word girly a thought
but to give you an idea of how often it was mentioned,I started
counting every time it appeared .From page 234 to the last page 552
that word was used 66 times, now if you factor in at least 50 tmes
from the first half of the book, that is some over use of one word.
I finished the book this morning I only gave it two stars because that
word was so distracting from what had the potential to be a good story
I do hope the auther may have picked up on it herself and will avoid
making the same mistake in the next edition.
This book is set in the UK and its what caught my attention
and believe you me no man past or present would address a woman
over here as girly. Its just so cringe worthy.
What editor worth their salt would let a glaring blunder
like this go by un noticed.
I have that book in ebook format and I searched the word girly and it comes 134 times! That's crazy. Think I'm going to be avoiding it. LolThe word "smirk" has annoyed me ever since reading "The Boy Who Sneaks in My Bedroom Window" lol it is in the book 74 times. I never gave it thought before that book but now if it's used in other books a lot it can effect my enjoyment of that book. :P
Rachel wrote: "I have that book in ebook format and I searched the word girly and it comes 134 times! That's crazy. Think I'm going to be avoiding it. LolThe word "smirk" has annoyed me ever since reading "The ..."
Good grief, 134 times thats worse than I thought,
no wonder I was going crazy with it. I am laughing now
because ...
Dare I say it but they all smirk a lot in this book too.
This is too funny.
LOL I searched smirk and it's used 72 times >_< no way! Now I'm going to avoiding it like the plague :P
That was my beef with that particular book. You'd think an editor would have caught it and made the author change that annoying word. I mean, who calls girls girly other than skanky pedos?
AH wrote: "That was my beef with that particular book. You'd think an editor would have caught it and made the author change that annoying word. I mean, who calls girls girly other than skanky pedos?"I totaly agree here that was my thought the first time it was used, it just surprised me that any writer would use it. Although none of the characters came accross as very likeable, which is unusual because in every book there is always someone in it that you like more than others.
used the word "folded" so many times it became a joke in our household.
How about punctuation? Bronze Gods used so many ellipses it sounded asthmatic: more than 1,200 times in 322 pages.
I read a dark fantasy book a couple of years ago (can't remember the title) that used the word "ebon" to describe anything that was black. It just came across as so pretentious, and was used so often, that I was having a little chuckle to myself every time it came up.
Nick wrote: "I read a dark fantasy book a couple of years ago (can't remember the title) that used the word "ebon" to describe anything that was black. It just came across as so pretentious, and was used so oft..."Yikes!
D.G. wrote: "Yikes!"Yikes indeed!
In one of the Discworld books there's a secret society called "The Elucidated Brethren Of The Ebon Night" who all get killed by a dragon. So when I read the word "ebon" in anything else I think of that and it seems silly, whatever the context.
I mean, what's wrong with just saying that something is black?
One of my favorite Calvin and Hobbes strips just popped into my mind. Hobbes loves the sound of the word smock and uses the word in every panel except the first. The last picture is of him repeating it over and over, while Calvin yells "What on earth is wrong with you?" Overall the word smock is used 15 times in an 8 panel strip and it is hilarious. Unfortunately for some authors, love of certain words can be just as funny, unintentionally so."Don't knock my smock or I'll clean your clock."
Lisa Kay wrote: "♥Calvin & Hobbes♥! LOL!"That's cute.
My husband and I turned into teenage boys listening to
. We were snickering at all the references to "down below" and making jokes of it. It was real mature :)
Nichole wrote: "My husband and I turned into teenage boys listening to . We were snickering at all the references to "down below" and making jokes of it. It was real mature :)"LMFAO! I would probably do that too
Lisa Kay wrote: "♥Calvin & Hobbes♥! LOL!"
That's it. One of my favorites. I also loved all the different snowman variations, Snowman Chamber of Horrors & the evil snowman army among them.
Julianne wrote: "LMFAO! I would probably do that too"Ditto!
Daffodil wrote: "That's it. One of my favorites. I also loved all the different snowman variations, Snowman Chamber of Horrors & the evil snowman army among them."Oh, yes. I have several ♥Calvin & Hobbes♥ collections. LOL!
Not a specific book, but I hate it some one 'threw my head back' in the throes of passion. All of them do it. Every person in every book. Every time.
Ashley wrote: "Not a specific book, but I hate it some one 'threw my head back' in the throes of passion. All of them do it. Every person in every book. Every time."
another one that gets me and it seems to crop up
all the time is -
he or she `rolls` hs or her `eyes` there is so much eye rolling going
on in books, not that I find that too annoying its just that
everyone in the fiction world seems to go in for it.
How about Christian Grey "cocking" his head all the time? (don't get me wrong, I absolutely adore CG and the trilogy) and also the "inner goddess" who cant keep still :)
Well that an example of a word that's changed over the last 40 odd years. LOL.
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in a local bargain/clearance store its called -
Dinner with a Vampire (The Dark Heroine series #1) by Abigail Gibbs
It has a great cover,hefty read (552 pages)The storylines OK too.
I am half way through, so far so good and great value for
just a quid.
So whats got me in such a lather ?
Well the love interest, well one of them Kasper to be precise
keeps saying this one word when talking to the main character
Violet. Ah ! he keeps saying the word `girly` in mostley all of the
conversations he has with Violet.
This word pops not ten times or twenty times its more like
thirty plus or so it seems and it really grates on what could
be quite an enjoyable read.
Don`t they have proof readers to stop this kind of thing
reocourring over and over again ? Or is this why it was so cheap ?
Are there more books out there like this ?
With certain words used repeatedly