You wanted to read the book, you were excited to crack it open, you came into it with good faith and anticipation… but you ended up dnf-ing it. Which book and why?
Mine was The Maid by Nita Prose. It was for my book club and looked like a fun murder mystery. Instead I got instant manic-pixie-dream-neurodivergent-girl vibes, and I noped out before the crime scene was even found.
a few pages into 50 shades of grey when the elevator is going UP and she describes it as reaching terminal velocity. that term is for when something FALLS until it seems like its floating.
Terminal velocity is when something has reached the maximum speed it can fall at.
I am struggling to see why it couldn’t also refer to the speed at which something stops accelerating, as well, when just used as a simple adjective/noun…
you could, but it would be confusing. terminal velocity is a specific and well defined term that doesn’t simply mean ‘no longer accelerating’.
Lively bit of prose that would be!
Didn’t think I’d ever come across an instance of science putting a stop to prurient interests! /s
I would’ve done that too lol
It was so badly written I had mentally put it down after the first page and physically after the second.
Me too
oh god that book was trash. Only read it because I found it on My drive, went right back there
for me it was on the fact that she got on i-5 south to drive north from portland to seattle.
I opened it up to a random page at a Barnes & Noble and the line I read said that a man came for “minutes”. That’s now how that works!