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Old 05-24-2008, 07:34 AM   #5
truttyMab

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I see. I haven't seen the book. Does it go on like this stylistically?

I think I'll give this one a miss (like the one who was doing a Monica Lewinsky on him in the paragraph Stewart quoted). This sort of gushiness-squidginess-splurginess is not for me. I would become an inmate if I had to read 695 pages of this.

It'll be interesting to see how many of the copies are sold in the ejaculation of enthusiasm occasioned by the prize. And how many are read to the end!!! Having the book lying prominently on your coffee table is not good enough. I'm afraid this first paragraph does not bode well. I know that style is all, but this style is a trifle overdone for the jerkasm involved. (Verhaeghen pulls all the right levers...) Gushing garlands to you too. And he would have to do the chapter heading in German to boot. Why? Couleur locale? Plus 120 pages of excised footnotes. Manic, man.

I don't have the patience to get engrossed in these huge wordifications.
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