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Karen Elizabeth Gordon, in this engaging, Gothic, quick-fix handbook--an ideal complement to The Deluxe Transitive Vampire--playfully instructs her readers about grammar and style as she plunges them into her magical world teeming with a wildly imaginative menagerie of winged and terrestrial creatures. Six eccentric fictional authorities, including sex-changing Natty Ampersand and Medievalist Vargas Scronx, give the book a sense of send-up in addition to its trusty practicality. A farouche faun with cloven hoofs, black rats, sirens and sphinxes, turbaned serpents, dragons, brigands and a butler make their appearance in unforgettable sentences and imaginary landscapes, such as brooding Trajikistan, to beguile the reader through such confusions and corrections as dangling and misplaced modifiers, double negatives, parallel construction, and a voluptuous riot of word abuses and preferable usage. Gordon also tames such confusing grammatical beasts as the elliptical clause, split infinitives, and many more. Rikki Ducornet has drawn more than fifty whimsical illustrations that capture the eccentric spirit of the text. Torn Wings and Faux Pas makes the reader laugh out loud and shiver with pleasure while experiencing style, vocabulary, and the structures of language as a perpetual and fiendish delight. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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I write this as I look at her entry in this book for the words affect and effect; I submit that if you didn't already have a relatively firm grasp of the problems in usage related to these two words, this book would be of no help to you. Ms. Gordon's exemplar for the use of these words reads: "Startling Glower once dragged onto the show 'Up Your Eponym' a collection of pop psychologists (mincing to their places and sporting moles and affectations, all powdered and dressed up in Restoration frippery to pander to Glower's sartorial and aesthetic proclivities) who discussed 'the affect of an abused sibling, crying into her mother's soup' or 'a Lothario who was utterly destitute of affect, but handsomely rich in beaux gestes and looks.'" N.B. that she neglects, in this precious prose, to offer an example of affect in its use as a verb.
If a person looking for a clear exposition of these words, who lacked any understanding of their use and their places in the taxonomy of the parts of speech, came to these pages, I am hard pressed to see how this entry (page 4, incidentally) would elucidate the use of these words. And this problem repeats throughout this book, making it almost useless for those toward whom I would think such a book would be aimed.
In other words, this is basically a useless tome that is arguably a reflection of its author's vanity.