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

[darkese.livejournal.com]

Her novels are like a recurring bad dream (not scary enough to be a nightmare and not erotic enough to be a wet dream just a dull boring bad dream). It's the same characters doing the exact same thing with the exact same matching emotional baggage - the only thing that changes is the background.

Change is Anita added another power but never learning to control her old ones, adding another lover while none of the old ones move, adding another beast that runs around inside her, adding another were group to be a bad queen of, having the same argument with Richard.

It's Deja Vu all over again.

[cicipsychobunny.livejournal.com]

Actually, dreams totally work as an explanation, because more and more surreal fracking things have been happening - like when they're having the Richard Cries and Screams and Cries About Being A Monster And Then Promises To Get Better Scene for the fourth time in DM, and suddenly in the middle of it he goes "OMG pretty hair" and starts fondling JC.