If you really want to practice your hyphenated modifiers and magic 3s, I'd suggest reading Love Walked In by Marisa de los Santos. I debated with myself if she may have even used them to excess. Here are just a few:
"Even more breathtaking than his physical and mental attributes was the way my cool-as-a-cucumber sister became a lovesick, spellbound, eyelash-batting girl in his presence."
"Ollie was just a hairsbreadth away from turning into one of those Beatles-Come-to-America girls. . . "
"My mother alphabetizes her spice rack, wears Tretorn sneakers, and never puts eleven items on the ten-item express grocery counter, ever."
"I didn't ditch Bill until a few nights later when I stood in his Georgian-mansion-turned-dank-cave of a frat house and watched Bill dancing shirtless on a tabletop, his bare, unfortunate belly pulsating like an anguished jellyfish."
"It was one of those dropped-from-the-sky silvery moments when you stand there believing that every last thing is the world is delicate, lovely, and precise, including and especially you."
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Kingsley Amis' "Lucky Jim" is the funniest book ever written about teaching, or anything else for that matter. At one point, Jim, the protagonist calls an intellectual/artistic prig named Bertrand a "bloody old towser-faced boot-faced son of a totum pole on a crap reservation."
Actually, I think it's "totem" pole, isn't it?
Hey, btw, how do u do italics on this janx?
Apparently you need to know html code. Good luck with that! Excellent use of the vernacular, btw!
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