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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.

[–] Agnes-Nitt@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I’m sort of crawling through The Stand at the moment, and (TW) there’s a boy he absolutely cannot let enter the page without commenting on his “savage”/“slanted”/“Chinese” (sometimes one or two of these, sometimes all three) eyes, which makes me really uncomfortable. Same with all the descriptions of how fat one character is and how disgusting we’re obviously meant to find him because of that. As for repetition, well, I unfortunately got the version of the book that includes a bunch of stuff originally cut, which makes it clock in at some 1300 pages, which I find hard to believe is necessary.

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