GOOP and that guy who can’t sing (sorry, but I’ve never been a fan of Chris Martin), may have made conscious uncoupling all the rage, but I’ve been consciously copy editing for awhile now, and the blurb on the jacket of a recently published novel raised my consciousness to a new level. Here’s the blurb, with identifying words removed:
[The author] has crafted a dizzying cloud-buster of a debut novel, instantly absorbing and full of ingenious ironies, uncanny characters, and richly textured scenarios, [this book] is a dreamlike portrait of life inside a towering puzzle.
Please, someone, replace one of those commas with a period, so that I can stop wondering around inside this maze of a sentence.