Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Exhibiting the language or literary style of the ordinary novel.
- noun A literary style supposed to be observable in the ordinary novel, flimsy in construction and lacking in point and elegance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
style ofwriting characteristic of bad-qualitynovels .
Etymologies
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Examples
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You've got to admire a guy who, unable to sell his book, breaks it down into 140-character bits, releases them one by one on Twitter, garners publicity, turns the tweets back into novelese and then -- voila!
Matt Stewart's 'The French Revolution,' a novel first released on Twitter Mameve Medwed 2010
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We have to learn to speak novelese, so fluently that when we speak we are indistinguishable from natives.
April 2008 2008
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We have to learn to speak novelese, so fluently that when we speak we are indistinguishable from natives.
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You've got to admire a guy who, unable to sell his book, breaks it down into 140-character bits, releases them one by one on Twitter, garners publicity, turns the tweets back into novelese and then -- voila!
AARP.org : 2010
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Although Brooks’s first novel has been mercilessly derided as a mere pastiche of The Lord of the Rings, it is in fact something very much more (and less): a translation of LOTR from epic English into modern pedestrian novelese.
Quakers in Spain superversive 2006
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