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Monday, June 14, 2010  

Bad writing: sometimes the truth hurts
In my job I come across much of it and of course online as well. Yesterday I found this nasty line from Damian Thompson: ‘the leaden whimsy favoured by American devotees of C.S. Lewis’. Like we don’t need more Whitney Houston soundalikes from ‘Idol’, please, ‘Christian writers’, no more unfunny rewrites of The Screwtape Letters as imagined by Ned Flanders.

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