Literature

A phrase stood out from a book I am (re)reading:

He can just imagine the crisp luscious sound of the woman's soft white skin forcing itself into the confining black rubber.

Interesting sentence considering the rest of book.

Comments

[Betsy]

And skin sounds 'crisp'...how...?

[J.D.]

Right on, Betsy!

I came to comment just so I could talk smack about this sentence. It's terrible. Could we please have more adjectives? (I know: pot, kettle, black.) I have no idea what idea is being conveyed here; it makes no sense to me.

I have a love/hate relationship with Stephenson's work. This sentence falls under the hate category.

[Scott]

Knowing about Miss Betsy's life as I do, she knows exactly what "crisp" skin sounds like...

disclaimer: I am on both Vicodin and psuedoephedrine at the moment so I may just be talking out of my ass.