ext_65620 ([identity profile] digitalusrex.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] lkh_lashouts2007-06-11 09:08 am
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spill (for clarification)

in incubus dreams, i got about halfway through before i began unofficially counting the number of times miss laurell used the world "spill" (or "spilled," "spilling," etc). unofficially, i counted maybe 8 or 9 "spills" before i started officially counting. 32 after that.

having started re-reading danse macabre, in the first 160 pages or so: 11. [EDIT: 16 at 314 pages. EDIT EDIT: 21 at 383 pages (also, 4 times on one page!)]

i know i have favorite words that i like to use, but this goes above and beyond. now, while reading danse macabre, i've tried to decide if other words could have been substituted and stayed true to the original meaning of the passage. yep.

a LOT of things annoy me about the series, especially the last 4 books, but this "spill" nonsense is what is bugging me this week. if miss laurell had an editor with ballz, perhaps it would have made a difference?

have you all noticed this overusage of the word "spill"?

[identity profile] stickfigurepeep.livejournal.com 2007-06-14 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
The fact that the tone of his voice raised at the end of the sentence made it a question. The fact that his mother was a Valley Girl and he had adopted that habitual cadence of speech from her made it annoying.

I hate when people talk like that, but I can totally picture Nathaniel ending every sentence with an upward inflection. "Anita, do you love me? Because I made you some cookies? And I was thinking we should have sex? And maybe Micha could join? 'Cause I drool for his super hawt meat log? Even though I'm not gay? 'Cause gay is, like, so totally gross? I mean, eeww, Right?"

[identity profile] roguetailkinker.livejournal.com 2007-06-14 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
flat out did it for me

Oh yes, that's another for the "way freaking overused" bin.

[identity profile] roguetailkinker.livejournal.com 2007-06-14 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
...until she bleeds, at that. Squick!

Re: Maybe it should be "nekkid" . . .

[identity profile] roguetailkinker.livejournal.com 2007-06-14 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
Argh, I know it was from some comedian, it had nude "when you have no clothes on", naked, and nekkid "when you have no clothes on and are up to no good!", but I don't remember the whole joke. :P

[identity profile] roguetailkinker.livejournal.com 2007-06-14 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
"screaming" and "I screamed" "He brought me screaming".

Anita screams way too damn much! She screams in bed, she screams when the bad guys scare her, she screams all the time! Enough already!

[identity profile] slayra.livejournal.com 2007-06-15 03:48 pm (UTC)(link)
All the words above are quite painful to read in the contexts LKH uses them. I have come to hate the word 'metaphysical' especially when connected with the word 'sex'. Her descriptions of sex are appaling at best, so yeah, those words... guh.

But another term/expression I now dread is 'Gallic shrug [that meant anything and nothing]'. :p

[identity profile] nyktipolos.livejournal.com 2007-06-17 07:45 am (UTC)(link)
Happens in Merry Gentry as well.

Several times in her latest books everyone seems to be swallowing the moon in their skin. Or the sun in their skin. Bah.

dead link?

[identity profile] graesea.livejournal.com 2008-04-15 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
hi there - I was looking through the archives and can't find the link - has it been deleted?

I am dying to know what her publishers think of her work.

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