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January 1, 1992I love this sort of thing: people being funny about books. Sad as I am that they aren't still publishing books, they are still running the contest, and I encourage you to visit their website when you have time to kill laughing. http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/personal copy
I read Craig Rice several years ago and really loved her Malone character. This book, I ordered because to my knowledge it's the only one co-written by a very early Ed McBain. He finished her manuscript after her untimely early death. I have always been a huge fan of Ed McBain. The cover jacket ma...
Why, yes, this is exactly the sort of thing I find terribly amusing. I've never attempted to enter the Bulwer-Lytton contest, but I love reading the results.
They were the best of fake novel starts, they were the worst of same, etc.
My feelings are rather hurt because Penguin classifies this as "non-classic". What is more classic than humor and deliberately bad writing?Which raises another question: is it fiction, because the snippets are fiction, or is it non-fiction because the contest that received these entries is quite r...
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