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This is a fantasy novel that suffers from what I like to call "adjectivitis"; an excess of adjectives that completely detract from the narrative.
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This is a fantasy novel that suffers from what I like to call "adjectivitis"; an excess of adjectives that completely detract from the narrative.
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A YA sci-fi novel that killed me with adjectivitis.
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I hope this leads to you having fewer partials with adjectivitis and such ;
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A YA sci-fi novel that killed me with adjectivitis.
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There was a disease at college we called adjectivitis.
The World for Sale, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897
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There was a disease at college we called adjectivitis.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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There was a disease at college we called adjectivitis.
The World for Sale, Volume 1. Gilbert Parker 1897
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