...and his gratuitous charm

[vvvexation]

I...am not sure what to make of this vocabulary-building tool.

I mean, I suppose, all other things being equal, it's probably a useful thing to have in existence. But the fact that there's actually a market for this...

...yeah, I dunno, man.

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[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

Heh. The misuse of "gratuitous" actually bothered me more than anything else. But the actual book, judging from the sample, ain't that bad.

[tshuma]

"gratuitous" actually hurt, a little. =)

I guess it's a decent educational tool, if it gets people interested in actually understanding their favorite book and expanding their vocabularies. It does seem as if they're likely to end up with a somewhat florid expansion given the style of the works in question.

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

Y'know, I suspect what actually baffled me most on a visceral level was the idea that the books' target audience might not know most of these words already. I have to actually think about it to realize that most teenagers are not like I was.