Larry Ryan has review Quack This Way for The Independent, Quack This Way: David Foster Wallace & Bryan A Garner Talk Language and Writing - book review Talk this way: a writer as inventive in speech as on paper:
[...]There is heft here, though. On a practical level, the royalties are going to the Wallace archive in the University of Texas at Austin. Inside there is enlightening discussion on language, writing and craft.
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Throughout there is eloquent discussion and explanation of such issues as bureaucratic officialese, vogue words, argumentative writing, advertising and legal dialects, communication with the reader and George W Bush's mangling of the language.
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Read the full review here.
Quack This Way at Amazon.com.
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