Terrible writing - Fire and Fury

[pnwest]

Last edited Sun Jan 7, 2018, 01:33 PM - Edit history (1)

I wish his editor had taken just a bit more time with it. Some of it is torturously over-wrought. Here’s a one-sentence example:

Tom Barrack, the would-be showman—in addition to Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch, he had bought Miramax Pictures from Disney with the actor Rob Lowe—may have declined the chief of staff job, but, as part of his shadow involvement with his friend’s White House, he stepped up to raise the money for the inaugural and to create an event that—seemingly quite at odds with the new president’s character, and with Steve Bannon’s wish for a no-frills populist inauguration—he promised would have a “soft sensuality” and “poetic
cadence.”

ETA: Holy crap, I don’t think I can finish this book. The farther in I go, the worse it gets with the mish-mash of facts, factoids, irrelevant asides and overly-wordy run-on sentences. If an editor touched this book at all, he didn’t work past page 40.....

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Yeah, that's a bit much.

[Cirque du So-What]

2. It reads like an entry

in a faux Faulkner contest.

[Aristus]

3. Yeah, that is terrible.

Did the book even have an editor?

[Skittles]

4. I detected that just from the "sample" I read

no point in buying it, since it will be rehashed extensively

[CanSocDem]

5. I have a rich friend who sends...

...me unsolicited POV's from the 'dark side' and today it was an online version of Fire and Fury. I think he likes DT so I'm wondering why he would send out this book.

Is it to punish the author by bootlegging his book....???


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[RandiFan1290]

6. Helping to spread malware and viruses

I wouldn't open that crap on my computer.

[CanSocDem]

8. Good point! (eom)

[alarimer]

7. Badly written gossip.

I wish people (the media) would focus on the real threat of Trump and not the back-stabbing, tabloid nonsense.