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Do you ever notice an author using a word over and over again? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by PastaConsumer@alien.top to c/books@metacritics.zone

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I’m currently reading The Duke and I and the author is constantly using the word “acerbic”. I had never heard of the word before now and had to google the definition. The word has shown up so much that I’m tempted to go through the book and count its appearances lol.

Have you noticed any authors having favorite words that they use page after page?

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[–] Terra_Ferrum@alien.top 0 points 11 months ago (14 children)

I find Stephen king repeats himself a lot and it’s one of the biggest reasons I’m not a huge fan of his books.

Fairy tale for instance has this fantasy world and the child can understand in his head this magical language. Well it felt like from then on every time someone spoke in the book he keenly reminded the reader “He said this word, but I feel as if it was another word that doesn’t exist in my language.” And variations of. I swear there was one paragraph we’re it was brought up like four times alone.

[–] planningcalendar@alien.top 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

In The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon he talks about the sound of her urine twice. How does an editor miss that?

[–] SplendidPunkinButter@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

He mentions urination a lot. Someone wets their pants at least once in most of his books.

[–] betterworkbitch@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

He talks about it in The Stand too, talking about the old woman using the bathroom, and how ar her age it just falls out of you. It was a very uncomfortable passage..

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