http://www.literateur.com/2010/03/the-loss-adjustor-by-aifric-campbell/ Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:56:22 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.literateur.com/2010/03/the-loss-adjustor-by-aifric-campbell/comment-page-1/#comment-2006 Fleur Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:50:58 +0000 http://www.literateur.com/?p=2360#comment-2006 I started reading this book, attracted by the theme which you describe here. After a few pages I was finding the language offputting, she uses so many big words that do nothing but get in the way. Pompous style from somebody with the wealth to exist trying to tell those of us who really do feel those things how it is. I feel like that about a lot of Guardian or Independent recommended novels. That they are fake, that they have no idea what it feels like to have no value yet in their middle class speak, the way they know all the nouns for man-made objects (I would try to avoid using these even if I did know them, you are trying to speak to the heart not the middle class ego) they pretend to have had my experiences and I am left in some cold nowhere. I started reading this book, attracted by the theme which you describe here. After a few pages I was finding the language offputting, she uses so many big words that do nothing but get in the way. Pompous style from somebody with the wealth to exist trying to tell those of us who really do feel those things how it is. I feel like that about a lot of Guardian or Independent recommended novels. That they are fake, that they have no idea what it feels like to have no value yet in their middle class speak, the way they know all the nouns for man-made objects (I would try to avoid using these even if I did know them, you are trying to speak to the heart not the middle class ego) they pretend to have had my experiences and I am left in some cold nowhere.

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