[bksvol-discuss] Book Submitted: It Was a Dark and Stormy Night
- From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <guidinggolden@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 20:04:03 -0500
hi everyone,
Here is the first book in the Bour-litten contest series. Enjoy it, smile.
ISBN:
0-1400-7556-9
Title:
It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: The Best from the Bulwer-Lytton Contest
Author(s):
Scott Rice (Editor)
Publisher:
Penguin Group (Canada)
Copyright Date:
1984
Copyrighted By:
SCOTT RICE
Brief Synopsis:
The world-famous competition that seeks to find the most atrocious opening
sentence to a hypothetical lousy novel, presents a hilarious, even
perversely instructive, collection of skilled ineptitude.
Long Synopsis:
"The camel died quite suddenly on the second day, and Selena fretted
sulkily and, buffing her already impeccable nails-not for the first time
since the journey began-pondered snidely if this would dissolve into a
vignette of minor inconveniences like all the other holidays spent with
Basil." The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest-named in honor of Victorian
literary has-been and renowned whist player Edward Bulwer-Lytton-is the
world-famous competition that seeks to find the most atrocious opening
sentence to a hypothetical lousy novel. Abounding in shameless sentences,
this is a hilarious- even perversely instructive-collection of skilled
ineptitude. A few heroic entries: . , . "Safeway wasn't open when Keegan
pulled his Chevy into the lot, its valves chattering, gun-blue cracked-ring
smoke sputtering from its-tail pipe, to get eggs." . "I was a
fifty-four-year-old male virgin but I'm all right now." . "The surface of
the strange forbidden planet was roughly textured and green, much like
cottage cheese gets way after the date on the lid says it is all right to
buy it."
Comments:
The page numbers need to be added where they are missing. Beyond that
should be a really easy proof. has been read through, all text is present,
along with page breaks, chapter titles, and all sentences. contact me if you
have questions: juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Book Quality:
EXCELLENT
Categories:
Entertainment, Literature and Fiction
Shelley L. Rhodes, VRT
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Reading a book is like rewriting it for yourself. You bring to a novel,
anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history
and you read it in your own terms. -Angela Carter, novelist and journalist
(1940-1992)
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