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Originally Posted by anamardoll
Parenthetical statements by the narrator. Just read Percy Jackson last night and while I liked it a lot, he had a tendency to do this:
I don't know why, but parentheses HURL me out of the experience and remind me that I'm reading a book. I hate them. Hate, hate, hate. And it wasn't even necessary here -- he could have just said, "Chiron had said that..." and not done the parentheses at all. How odd I am.
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I think parentheses can be well used to humorous meanings (not your example). To me they're absolutely fine.