In college, I took an Editing and Publishing course in which we were tasked with creating a mock catalog for our little mock publishing house as our big project for the class. We wrote a bunch of descriptions, shitloads of copy about 20 or 30 books, and it would've been fine but for that tint of fakeness that fake things tend to have when you know they're fake (or faked them yourself). I get a similar vibe from the following copy:
Someone is dog-napping the canine citizens of Chem City, Texas! Two tween girls overcome danger and conspiracies as they set out to solve the crime and administer justice with the help of a magical bracelet. As the girls battle the Mob, a punk gang and a crooked cop, they learn something about friendship, courage and the importance of hanging with the right crowd.I don't even really want to link to the source. I mean, I will, but I'd prefer not to. I don't want to spoil what simply must be the most perfectly cliche-ridden paragraph ever written.
1 comments:
It's amazing how much of an air of falsehood is added to the paragraph simply by the use of an exclamation point at the end of the first sentence.
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