Don’t believe me? Try this sentence: “Her eyes were like flint and flower petals.” Or this one: “The tears came like a small relentless army approaching the front lines of her eyes. A tell-tale way to spot a weak writer? They can’t stop weirdly describing people’s eyes. From bad description to horrible grammar to utterly confusing metaphors, Sebold covered it all. It is filled with some of the worst sentence-level writing that I have ever encountered. Here are some of my gripes, problems and issues that we can hopefully use to prevent something like this from ever happening again to us, our children, or our children’s children: If it serves any use at all, it might be a perfect guide on how not to write a book. How could this have ever possibly been popular? Is it for the same reason that the song “My Humps” hit number one? I mean, I don’t technically believe in burning books, but this novel really got me thinking. It is truly a black, black tragedy that the words in this book were placed in that particular order, published, and distributed. The Lovely Bones has got to be the most baffling, poorly written, jaw-droppingly bad book that I have ever set my eyes on.
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