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Re: Speaking of "young adult" books

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In article <ROydnREeUMlX-GTInZ2dnUU7-YnOydjZ@giganews.com>, Alan Browne
<alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:

> On 2015-09-15 13:23, Jolly Roger wrote:
> > On 2015-09-15, Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> <http://ak-hdl.buzzfed.com/static/2015-09/13/10/enhanced/webdr06/enhanced-1
> >> 5584-1442155744-8.png>
> >
> > Do we also have your permissions to decide not to read the rest of a
> > book after reading the first few pages?  : )
> 
> You committed from the first "It was a dark and rainy night.  A shot 
> rang out.  A woman screamed." and have to finish.  It's the code.
> 

"It was a dark and stormy night," opening sentence of /Paul Clifford/,
a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1830.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_was_a_dark_and_stormy_night>

The writing department of San Jose State University has held the
Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest since 1982. Participants submit opening
sentences to imaginary novels.

Gary Dahl, inventor of the Pet Rock and who recently died, won in 2000
with this gem:

"The heather-encrusted Headlands, veiled in fog as thick as smoke in a
crowded pub, hunched precariously over the moors, their rocky elbows
slipping off land's end, their bulbous, craggy noses thrust into the
thick foam of the North Sea like bearded old men falling asleep in
their pints."

Garrison Spik won in 2008 with this opening line:

"Theirs was a New York love, a checkered taxi ride burning rubber, and
like the city their passion was open 24/7, steam rising from their
bodies like slick streets exhaling warm, moist, white breath through
manhole covers stamped 'Forged by DeLaney Bros., Piscataway, N.J.'"


Just setting the record straight. Back to your regular trolling. :)

-- 
Jim Gibson

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Speaking of "young adult" books Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-09-15 10:18 -0700
  Re: Speaking of "young adult" books Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-15 17:23 +0000
    Re: Speaking of "young adult" books Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-09-15 10:41 -0700
      Re: Speaking of "young adult" books Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-15 18:02 +0000
    Re: Speaking of "young adult" books Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-16 08:51 -0400
      Re: Speaking of "young adult" books Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-16 15:03 +0000
      Re: Speaking of "young adult" books Jim Gibson <JimSGibson@gmail.com> - 2015-09-16 17:12 -0700
        Re: Speaking of "young adult" books Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-17 10:15 -0400
          Re: Speaking of "young adult" books Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-09-17 07:27 -0700
            Re: Speaking of "young adult" books Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-17 12:30 -0400
            Re: Speaking of "young adult" books Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-09-17 12:40 -0400
          Re: Speaking of "young adult" books Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-09-17 16:12 +0000
          Re: Speaking of "young adult" books Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org> - 2015-09-18 16:46 -0400
  Re: Speaking of "young adult" books Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-09-16 00:46 +0000
  Re: Speaking of "young adult" books dmoorman <dmoorman4@comcast.net> - 2015-09-16 23:56 -0500

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