Verbal annoyances

[easol.livejournal.com]

Y'know, people often talk about LKH's unbelievable metaphors ("evil chocolate in your ice cream" or whatever the hell that was), her smells, her silly "gawth" names, or her tendency to describe in detail what every character is wearing. But I find that there are a lot of verbal tics that bother me just as much.

Edit -- Similes: It feels like LKH cannot go through a paragraph without at least one terrible and/or vague simile, even when a simile is not needed. "... the fire burned us both like a force of nature"? Yeah, way to kill the drama.

Shading: Note to LKH -- I do not care how many shades lighter X's eyes are than Y's, or how many shades darker their shirt is. What are you using, paint chips?

"... Across My Skin": Words cannot express how sick I am of this phrase.

"White Bread": I hate this with a passion. What the hell is wrong with just saying "Hispanic" or "black"?

Rude conversations: If you are going to have people talking about the heroine like she isn't even there, then write books in the third person. It's just annoying to have people dissecting Whorenita's emotions while she sits there and drools.

Well, that's all I can think of off the top of my head. Does anyone else have 'em?

Comments

[nimnix.livejournal.com]

That's not even her skill... she had to borrow it from JC :P

[hellozombies.livejournal.com]

LMAO. Good one.

Maybe someone should point that out to LKH? I'm sure she wouldn't like her precious Anita being completely unoriginal. She has to be the BESTEST, dammit!

[nimnix.livejournal.com]

Well, she is amazing at turning even me off with her sex scenes, and I'm a huge perv. Of course I don't normally consider that a skill, more of an unfortunate side-effect of reading her work.

How would she even recognize Anita as being unoriginal, anyway? She'd have to go on the scaaaary internets and read something outside of her comfort zone, like research.