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Seven Deadly Words Of Book Reviewing

Posted at 7:38PM Wednesday 26 Mar 2008

Like all professions book reviewing has a lingo. Out of laziness, haste or a misguided effort to sound "literary," reviewers use some words with startling predictability. Each of these seven entries is a perfectly good word (well, maybe not eschew), but they crop up in book reviews with wearying regularity. To little avail, admonitions abound. "The best critics," Follett writes, "are those who use the plainest words and who make their taste rational by describing actions rather than by reporting or imputing feelings."

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