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You're essentially asking that they wrote a different book. The introduction is pretty clear that the point isn't to turn the reader into the next Hemingway, but merely to keep him from being among the countless thousands whose work never gets a second look from a publisher because it's so bad. There are no actual novels with this stuff (or at least very few), because manuscripts with these kinds of non-subtle mistakes don't get published, and things that don't get published aren't readily available for reference. It's similar to how I can tell a few war stories from my old job, but I'd be reluctant to write a book full of them because I'd want to get all of the details correct and I'm not in the habit of hanging onto files from jobs I no longer have. I doubt the authors hang on to rejected manuscripts, but they've probably seen enough patterns to be able to explain the mistakes. So they can't just quote passages verbatim. There's also the fact that exaggerated examples make better teaching tools than subtle ones. If I'm trying to explain to a beginner how a synthesizer works and what all the buttons and knobs do, I don't explain resonance be making a slight adjustment (as I might when putting a sound together); I explain it by cranking it up as high as it will go without the sound breaking up, then turning it down again.
There are many more than just a few. Most of this catalog would do: https://372pages.com/about.
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