Baconsommh@alien.topBtoBooks@metacritics.zone•Do you ever notice an author using a word over and over again?English
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1 year ago“Blasphemous geometries” ahoy !
“Blasphemous geometries” ahoy !
His prose tends to be a shade too pompous for my taste.
One of the more annoying tics of 18th-century prose is the habit of referring to people as “the [adjective] So-and-So”, instead of referring simply to “So-and-So”.
So many of these !
Non-Euclidian geometries
Blasphemous
Cyclopean
Snape’s hair is usually described as “greasy”, “like curtains”.
And there is Draco Malfoy’s “pale, pointed face”.
And Hermione’s “bushy brown hair”.
And Dumbledore’s “half-moon spectacles”.
That might work in a period novel, perhaps; in one set in the 1890s perhaps.
J K Rowling is very fond of “zoom” and variants, in the Harry Potter books. And there is a lot of “beaming” and “roaring” as well.
This could almost be a description of a very great number of Harry Potter fan fics.