Having written more than my share of "big books", I look fondly at fellow entrants in the field. This title looks like the penultimate word on the subject:
Gotta love the marketing appeal of a near-dead person's soles!Bart King: Successfully avoiding death since the 1960s
Gotta love the marketing appeal of a near-dead person's soles!
Let's see if I can appropriate that last line:Bart King regrets that it is impossible for him, under any circumstances to receive unknown persons who have no apparent business with him.THAT should keep those little scamps off my doorstep next Halloween!
From here. Ooh, and the robbery was unsuccessful. (I guess nice guys DO finish last... and then they get arrested!)
I admire the moxie of this book, though you may wonder, "Has the time come for an anthology of zombie romance?"
The Associated Press Stylebook is the go-to reference for journalists questioning grammar. The Fake AP Stylebook is a Twitter service that mocks it very, very well. Examples follow:
—“Avoid using the letter ‘G’ as it is unlucky.”
—“Precede basic statements of fact with ‘allegedly’ to avoid accusations of bias: ‘the allegedly wet water,’ ‘the allegedly poisonous poison.’”
—“Use the quintuple vowel to transcribe the utterances of small children, ‘Daaaaaddy, I waaaant a Pooooony!’”
—“If you do not have an interviewees’ full title, use their most defining physical trait (e.g. ‘Alan Hayes, fat guy, said…’)”