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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5906530" data-attributes="member: 54877">I don't remember that many phrases keeping text to a low reading level, but it has been awhile since I learned it, and perhaps the simpler vocabulary there is compensating. In any case, I'm willing to concede on the "8th grade reading level" part. I'm not willing to concede on "like a newspaper". <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Here's a link to a USA today travel section, which is the most flattering, non-political example I could find in a short search: <a href="http://travel.usatoday.com/deals/inside/story/2012-05-10/Worlds-strangest-tourist-attractions/54863682/1" target="_blank">World's strangest tourist attractions - USATODAY.com</a>. A sample:The Gnome Reserve Devon, England You may have seen animal reserves before, but what about a home for garden gnomes? <a href="http://www.gnomereserve.co.uk/" target="_blank">The Gnome Reserve</a> in Devon, England, has more than 1,000 gnomes scattered free-range-style around the park's four acres. (The antique gnomes are confined to the on-site museum.) Visitors can pose for pictures with the statues, using the provided fishing rods and gnome hats to blend in. Dogs are welcome to visit, but they must be on leashes so they don't scare the gnomes. It's chirpy, staccato, with just enough phrases to escape Dick and Jane alusions. It's not terrible, but it is a style written in a hurry, for a disposable medium, to be read and then tossed aside. For something in a hardback, I'd like something a little closer to Stephen King than that--not Stephen King, but merely enough of a smidgeon along that route to not remind me of newspapers. (Not writing dialog, typically, is of course going to severely restrict what can be done, and probably should.) Edit:  It also occurs to me just now that, given the reputation of the newspapers in Great Britain, that perhaps "like a newspaper" has very different connotations for different people.  For me, it means something roughly akin to "written quickly by someone whose main skill is asking impertinent questions of people and then largely failing to grasp the answers." YMMV. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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