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3. Timothy Cotton "Got Warrants?"
Picked up Timothy Cotton's "Got Warrants" when we were at the local library last Saturday. It was an easy read, but not as fun as I was expecting. Cotton made fun entries for the Bangor Police Department's facebook page, but those are inherently short form. In this book he tried to stretch out scenes which tended to make them thin. He also used a very limited repertoire of techniques. I'm a fan of alliteration, but like rosemary, if you use to much it just ruins the flavor. Alliteration should never span paragraphs. Also, it is clever to disguise certain basic words by using other word which are less common or more syllabically endowed. But when you do it too much you just sound like a kid who is trying to be clever and has just made it to the level of irritating.
So, like the farmer's almanac, this book might go well by the toilet where you can read a page or two while taking care of essentials. But make sure you've also got an almanac handy because you'll want to wait a few days before you go back to it.
Picked up Timothy Cotton's "Got Warrants" when we were at the local library last Saturday. It was an easy read, but not as fun as I was expecting. Cotton made fun entries for the Bangor Police Department's facebook page, but those are inherently short form. In this book he tried to stretch out scenes which tended to make them thin. He also used a very limited repertoire of techniques. I'm a fan of alliteration, but like rosemary, if you use to much it just ruins the flavor. Alliteration should never span paragraphs. Also, it is clever to disguise certain basic words by using other word which are less common or more syllabically endowed. But when you do it too much you just sound like a kid who is trying to be clever and has just made it to the level of irritating.
So, like the farmer's almanac, this book might go well by the toilet where you can read a page or two while taking care of essentials. But make sure you've also got an almanac handy because you'll want to wait a few days before you go back to it.
