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I've been struggling through this for 8 months - the whole pandemic so far. The writing in this book is fascinating to me. There's a famous contest - the Bulwer-Lytton contest - in which contestants compete to write the worst first sentence to an imaginary novel, usually with outrageous prose.
"Appleseed" is like Clute took the parody language of the Bulwer-Lytton contest and said "I can do that for a whole novel!"
— Sep 12, 2020 12:39AM
"Appleseed" is like Clute took the parody language of the Bulwer-Lytton contest and said "I can do that for a whole novel!"
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Harold Ogle
is on page 238 of 337
This book is fascinating to me, in the meta sense of analyzing the writing (rather than the typical sense of the subject matter or plot). There's a famous contest - the Bulwer-Lytton contest - in which contestants compete to write the worst first sentence to an imaginary novel.
"Appleseed" is like Clute took the parody language of the Bulwer-Lytton contest and said "I can do that for a whole novel!"
— Sep 12, 2020 12:37AM
"Appleseed" is like Clute took the parody language of the Bulwer-Lytton contest and said "I can do that for a whole novel!"
