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Cool :)

Just for fun: Is anyone else here a "librocubicularist"?

I loved some of the colour imagery used by Markus Zusak in The Book Thief and then discovered that his father was a house painter.

This is such a good idea for a thread!

Apparently there is an 823 word sentance in Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Ryoki Inoue (born José Carlos Ryoki de Alpoim Inoue) is a Brazilian writer, acknowledged by the Guinness World Records as world's most prolific writer: since he began his career in 1986, he had 1075 books published — under his own name or 39 pseudonyms. He writes westerns, science fiction and thrillers.

Makes all us wannabe writers look bad

Knowledge Lost wrote: "Ryoki Inoue (born José Carlos Ryoki de Alpoim Inoue) is a Brazilian writer, acknowledged by the Guinness World Records as world's most prolific writer: since he began his career in..."

That's an average of 43 books a year. Maybe he does one a week then has a 9-week holiday...

He makes Nora Roberts, with 300 odd, look like an amateur.

Monya (aka Mary)

Carmel wrote: "But the ques is Monya, are they readible!!!"

Nope, they are not. It's all Portuguese to me

★ Jessica ★ wrote: "This is such a good idea for a thread!

Apparently there is an 823 word sentance in Les Misérables by Victor Hugo"

No wonder I struggled at times. :)

This is a wonderful thread!! Such interesting facts..Michael, yours about Dr Seuss' Green Eggs and Ham is fascinating!

Also Kim Marie's about The Book Thief...

Did you know that the Bronte sisters were ill treated by their dad and their brother was a drunk so they had to write their books on small scrap pieces of paper..

Michael wrote: "Here's another interesting book fact.

Jane Austen was apparently abit jealous in 1914 when Sir Walter Scott's book Waverley was released.

She wrot..."

Er, Michael, realise it was a typo (HOPE for your sake it was a typo!) but it was 1814, not 1914.

Grandma Grammar Nazi.

These facts are really interesting!! If I find a good one, I'll share it.

I'm pretty sure you all know this but it's one of my favorite facts about harry potter :

Dumbledore is gay :)
I had the feeling when he wore the purple suit in book 6 bu J.K came out and said he was
makes his character so much cooler

I actually love it how it's implied but never spelt out. That does so much more for the anti-discrimination issue than banging it home.

another harry potter one
Order of the phoenix (#5) is the fastest selling book ever

Edgar Allan Poe wrote a short story in 1838, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket", in which three shipwreck survivors in an open boat kill and eat the fourth, a man named Richard Parker. In 1884, in the real world, three shipwreck survivors in an open boat killed and ate the fourth, whose name was Richard Parker.

Melanie wrote: "Edgar Allan Poe wrote a short story in 1838, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket", in which three shipwreck survivors in an open boat kill and eat the fourth, a man named Richard Parke..."

Ha!

Melanie wrote: "I'm pretty sure you all know this but it's one of my favorite facts about harry potter :

Dumbledore is gay :)
I had the feeling when he wore the purple suit in book 6 bu J.K came out and said he w..."

With Grindelwald, apparently...

Winnie-the-Pooh is based on a real bear. On August 24th, 1914, a Canadian soldier and veterinarian named Harry Colebourn, en route to a training camp in Valcartier, Quebec, purchased an orphaned black bear cub for $20 in White River, Ontario, which he named Winnipeg, or Winnie for short. When his unit was sent over to France during World War I, Colebourn loaned her to the London Zoo, intending to take her back to Canada after the war. However, Winnie's gentle disposition made her the zoo's top attraction, and on December 1, 1919, he donated her to the zoo. In the mid 1920's, writer A. A. Milne often took his young son, Christopher Robin, to the zoo, and Christopher named his teddy bear "Winnie-the-Pooh" after Winnie. A. A. Milne went on to write several best-selling children's books about Christopher Robin and Winnie-the-Pooh.


I have a few of these :D I love this thread

haha thats awesome :) I didnt know that. Whats another one?

well not necessarily about animals but just general weird facts about books.

In 1977, as an experiment, Chuck Ross typed up a fresh manuscript copy of Jerzy Kosinski's novel Steps, which had won the National Book Award in 1969 for best work of fiction, changed the title, and submitted the work under his by-line to 14 publishers. All of them rejected the novel, including Random House, the book's original publisher

Shakespeare makes Lear, an early Anglo-Saxon King, speak of not wanting spectacles. In relating Macbeth's death, in 1054, and King John's reign in 1200, he mentions cannons. In Julius Caesar, he makes the clock strike three. However, these three inventions were not invented until the fourteenth century.

John Keats was only about 5 feet tall (shorter then me:D)

in the Spanish version of Harry Potter, Nevilles toad was translated into turtle lol

Melanie wrote: "Edgar Allan Poe wrote a short story in 1838, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket", in which three shipwreck survivors in an open boat kill and eat the fourth, a man named Richard Parke..."

That's awesome!!!

Melanie, you have endless facts that are fascinating! Keep them coming...it's so interesting to read them :)

Leo Tolstoy wrote a large book called War and Peace before computers and copying machines. His wife had to copy his manuscript by hand seven times.

Oh my!!! :(

Since 1920, Agatha Christie's books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in over 45 foreign languages. She is outsold only by the Bible and William Shakespeare.

Ahm Deu wrote: "Leo Tolstoy wrote a large book called War and Peace before computers and copying machines. His wife had to copy his manuscript by hand seven times."

Oh dear... better her than... well, anyone!

Did you know my name isn't really Meb :P

Probably!!!! ;)

Aha :P

The author of the book on which the movie "The Bridge on the River Kwai" is based, Pierre Boulle gave what is said to be the shortest acceptance speech in Academy Award history with the single word "Merci", when he was credited with the screenplay because the film's actual writers, Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson had been blacklisted as communist sympathisers. The Motion Picture Academy added their names to the award in 1984. Boulle also wrote La planète des singes which was filmed as The Planet of the Apes.

Ahm Deu wrote: "Since 1920, Agatha Christie's books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in over 45 foreign languages. She is outsold only by the Bible and William Shakespeare."

I like Agatha C books too. I think I might have read them all though many when I read them again I find I've forgotten who the murderer is. Ho hum. Laurel
http://aussieauthorsatwork.blogspot.com

Same here. Agatha Christie's books are extremely enjoyable while you're reading them but formulaic and forgettable once you're done.

Isn't there an agatha christie show?

Little known facts about the Brothers Grimm

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (in a family of 9 children) are best known for their collection of fairy tales, but they lived in poverty: The year their fairy tales were published, they were surviving on 1 meal a day.

The movie of The Brothers Grimm featured Matt Damon and Heath Ledger

Thomas Hardy

When British poet and novelist Thomas Hardy died on January 11, 1928, his literary contemporaries decided he was too important to be buried in his hometown's simple churchyard.

But the good people of Dorset, where Hardy had spent nearly all of his 88 years, vehemently disagreed. So the two groups reached a grisly compromise.

The author's body was cremated, and his ashes were interred in the Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey. Hardy's heart, on the other hand, was placed inside a small casket and buried beside the grave of his first wife in a Dorset churchyard.

To this day, a rumor persists that the author's heart was accidentally devoured by his housekeeper's cat, and that the heart of a pig was buried in its place.

Charlotte Bronte

Charlotte Bronte may have been the author of the romantic classic Jane Eyre, but she was not well served by love herself. In fact, it more or less killed her.

In June of 1854, a starry-eyed Bronte married her father's curate and soon became pregnant. During her pregnancy, she fell ill, and according to her earliest biographer, Elizabeth Gaskell, she was attacked by "sensations of perpetual nausea and ever-recurring faintness."

The elder Bronte sister's nausea was so overwhelming, in fact, that the author couldn't eat or even smell food without becoming violently ill. On March 31, 1855, a dehydrated, malnourished and severely exhausted Charlotte Bronte died at the age of 38.

Charles Dickens

A number of pets graced the Dickens household over the years, including all manner of dogs, cats and ponies. But Charles' favorite pets were his two ravens, both known as Grip.

Dickens was particularly devoted to Grip I, going so far as to write the bird into his 1841 mystery novel, Barnaby Rudge. This same talkative bird reportedly was the inspiration for Edgar Allan Poe's famous poem, "The Raven," published four years later.

Upon Grip I's demise, Dickens had his beloved bird stuffed. These days, Grip can be seen at the Free Library of Philadelphia's Rare Books Department, where he stands guard over the Poe and Dickens collections.

Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

One out of every eight letters you read is the letter ‘e’.

In 1939 an author named Ernest Vincent wrote a 50,000 word novel called Gadsby. The only thing unusual about the novel is that there is not a single letter ‘e’ in the whole thing.

There have been over 20,000 books written about the game of Chess.

thats really cool!

With 51 New York Bestsellers under his belt, James Patterson is the Worlds Wealthiest Author with a whopping estimated $70 million in his bank account.

(Comment: that goes to show you that authors with suckish books are always more famous and richer)

The man who wrote the Sherlock Holmes stories, A. Conan Doyle, was a professional ophthalmologist, an eye doctor. Because in his time specialty medical practices were hard to build and didn’t pay well, he had to take up writing to make ends meet

She is amazingly popular isn't she Michael!!

Whoa!!!

Michael wrote: "Jean M. Auel the author of the 'Earth's children' series worked for many years in Portland electronic plant. She was 40 when she earned her MBA from the university of Portland and anot..."


...my name is Ayla, it comes from that book. no jokes, my mum loved it when she was younger...i have read them all and every time me and my maties are in a book store i point out that my name is in a book and theres isn't. :D hope you found that interesting....as for the meb thing it is a long story but yes, AYLA is my birth name..

Hi Ayla!!! What a lovely name :) and what a beautiful history to know about it!!

It's cool that you were named after a character with a nice name.

;)