Murtagh Throb Test

[torylltales]

There's a running joke among antis that Paolini has a bad habit of misusing – and over-using – the word 'throb' (and "crimson", "orb", and "thrust"). So I decided to search my ebook copy of Murtagh to see how he does.


13 throbs. Which is lower than Inheritance, if I recall, but higher than many other fantasy authors. And here's the list:

• throbbing embers
• A warning throb
• a throbbing headache
• the bone beneath the old cut throbbed '
• His veins throbbed
• His knee throbbed
• his right elbow throbbed
• His left knee throbbed
• the throbbing in his left wrist
• His eyeballs throbbed
• his throbbing temple
• The world throbbed
• a throbbing rhythm

UPDATE: by request, I searched for the phrase "sense of", as that's another one Paolini overuses. Brace yourself, people. It's...

...

84.

EIGHTY FOUR uses of the phrase "sense of".

 

I'm going to need a coffee before we start this spork. Or a wine. Or several wines.

 

GROUP SPORK NEWS

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Comments

[mara_dienne459]

I promise that I will get to it :)

That also sounds like a fun little game. I should probably look into that. It might help me a great deal.

[epistler]

It really helped me during a period of extremely severe anxiety. Now it's mostly just a handy to-do list, but I use it much more assiduously when I'm stressed out.