I've written about some of these common errors in word choice before, but they keep popping up and this time I thought it might be fun to illustrate them. Here's the first one:
"This book is literally explosive!"
No, unless it goes boom it is figuratively explosive. You don't need to add the "figuratively" because people will know that's what you mean. It's adding "literally" as though it means "very" or "extremely" that is the problem.
