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ITT: words that are used too often in a book, to the point of being distracting. pic related
>grin/grinned/grinning

>> No.12711330

>>12711322
Blood Meridian: he squatted
Who even fucking squats, ffs?

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>>12711322
>ignominy

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>>12711330
This nigga

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>house

>> No.12712581

>stretched his legs

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>sez

>> No.12712585

>SHUDDERED
>HE SHUDDERED
>SHE SHUDDERED
>EVERYONE SHUDDERED

In the Count of Monte Cristo

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>pale
is it the same in all of his novels?

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>she

>> No.12712595

>>12711322
I really felt like 'chortle' was overused in Infinite Jest, but I think it was only used a couple times, perhaps just once.

>> No.12712606

>>12711330
Slavs do.

>> No.12712615

>>12711330
There is a fair amount of squatting in Germinal as well. Almost every time they go into the mines someone squats, if not everyone.

>> No.12712788

The word “mean” as in “you are so mean!” Gets used in Russian literature so much that it distracts me

>> No.12712803

>>12712788
Russians love to say "offended" or "insulted" too. I guess they have a word that is broader than the english counterpart and that can be used in a lot of contexts.

>> No.12712826

>>12712803
That’s what I figured. It must be some word that the closest translation in English is “mean”

>> No.12712833

Houellebecq always write about the “contractions” in a woman’s vagina. Think he uses that word in atomised, platform & submission.

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>wistfully