Hyphenated Adjectives from MAX THE MIGHTY, and I FUNNY

When you were in grade school, you learned that adjectives were describing words and always preceded the noun.  red car

Now, you write more complex adjectives and find that just one isn't sufficient.
A well worn copy of a book with battered cover and curled corners to its pages becomes:
a "dog-eared copy of the book"
the book is not a dog ear, nor just a plain copy, so we hyphenate the adjectives making the imagery more concise and indeed, more visual.

From Max the Mightly by Rodman Philbrick we get:

"chain-link fence"
"quick-talking voice"
"boarded-up windows"
"rolled-up jacket"

We also get triple adjectives like
11-year-old girl"
"mom-and-pop deal"
"no-good, lying creep"
"out-of-control locomotive"

We can play with the order of adjectives like
"she moves slow-footed"

and how about this for conjuring an image:
"filled-to-the-brim dumpster"

I have noticed that recent books seem to use hyphenated adjectives more and more.
In I Funny by James Patterson we find
"the family's road-hogging, gas guzzling, DVD-playing SUV"
"dinner is usually something like tuna noodle casserole made with cream-of-wallpaper soup"

delightful

EXCEPTION you don't need hyphens with LY-adverbs working as adjectives
 like previously mentioned article
Grammar girl has an excellent article on hyphens here:
http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/how-to-use-a-hyphen