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Death Sentence – Todesurteil (limitiertes Steelbook)

June 10th, 2010 | Author: kizkcalf

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Death Sentence – Todesurteil (limitiertes Steelbook) Selbstjustiz – Lothar Hitzges – Schweich, Mosel, Germany
Der erfolgreiche Manager und glückliche Familienvater Nick Hume muss an einer Tankstelle miterleben wie sein ältester Sohn Brendan während eines Überfalls von dem Gangmitglied Joe Darley getötet wird. Nick ist der einzige Zeuge und ein hartes Urteil wird es wohl laut Staatsanwalt nicht geben.

Vor diesem Hintergrund gibt Nick vor Gericht an, Joe nicht genau gesehen zu haben. Joe kommt frei und Nick beginnt seinen Rachefeldzug gegen die Gang. Damit setzt er Kräfte frei, die sich gegen seine restliche Familie richten. Seine Frau kommt zu Tode und sein jüngster Sohn Lucas kommt ins Krankenhaus. Noch ein weiteres Mal zieht Nick in seinen ganz persönlichen Privatkrieg.

Die Formel Erschaffe ein möglichst großes Unrecht und erlaube anschließend alle Mittel zur Rache geht in dieser Geschichte nicht auf. Die Täter schlagen zurück und vergrößern das Leid des Rächenden. Spannung und Action treiben die Geschichte voran. Der ethische Gesichtspunkt der fatalen Selbstjustiz und das für Europäer merkwürdig erscheinenden us-amerikanischen Rechtssystems bleibt auf der Strecke. Regie und Schauspieler leisten ordentliche Arbeit.
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Death Sentence – Todesurteil (limitiertes Steelbook)

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Stunning Sentences (The Effective Writing Series)

May 23rd, 2010 | Author: kizkcalf

Stunning Sentences (The Effective Writing Series) badly written book about good writing – Fernando Sotomayor – Lima Peru
Any one expects that a book about good writing is in itself a model of good writing, in which clarity and elegance is inmediately obvious to the eye. Nevertheles, as soon as you open this book, you will find a gross and hurting defect: the author talks using typeface x; the examples are written also with typeface x, so the reader can not distinguish he started reading an example; then, when the author talks again, to comment or explain the example, uses italics, which most authors use for examples. So the text is an irritating mess.

The book has segments like the following (since italics is not available, I will represent it with UPPERCASE):

<<start———-
Simplest, and thus clearest, the direct sentence has one main clause and is the starting point for countless variants.

Smart eateries are puting peculiar mushrooms on the menu.

HARD TO GET MORE DIRECT THAN THIS: WHO IS DOING WHAT OT WHAT AND WHERE.
———end>>

<<start——–
The second common variant to the direct sentence is to add a comment or definition by means of a WHICH clause.

The book also suffers more than usual from Elshtain’s prose style, WHICH IS EARNEST AT BEST AND PLODDING AT WORST

SET OFF BY COMMAS, THE which CLAUSE CAN BE LEFT OUT WITHOUT DISRUPTING THE MEANING OF THE MAIN CLAUSE.
——end>>

This is a very dumb style for writing a book; even worse, if it is one about good writing.

In an attempt to make the book somewhat readable, I had to draw a box around every example.

Afterwards, I find that most of the recommendations are amateurish, without any logical, nor grammar support, but just the supposedly “exquisite” author’s taste. He says that the key to improve our writing is unexpectedness; and his main way to be unexpected is violating grammar. One of his “stunning” sentences is

<<>

He says JUST THE OPPOSITE is a stunning sentence (even when it is not a sentence) because he removed the verb that everybody is expecting.

As reader, I would find more elegant the normal way of writing

Other of his “great” recommendations are faulty reestatements of the standard writing rules, as for example:

The correct, also more elegant, way of writing this is:
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where, as it is known, the comma after the semicolon indicates that the verb of the previous sentence is implicitly repetead.

Use your money in another book instead of this.

: Whether you are composing a Web page on the Internet or agonizing over an annual budget report, these books are the key to clarity, accuracy, and economy in any writing task. Offers more than 100 model sentence types in a catalog format, giving writers many interesting and provocative ways to say what they mean. Writers looking for a more striking way to open a sentence will find these options: the announcement, the editorial opening, the opening appositive, the opening absolute, and the conjunction opening, among others. Examples of each sentence type ensure the reader’s understanding of the concepts.
Stunning Sentences (The Effective Writing Series)

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