Bride of Dark and Stormy: Yet More of the Best (?) From the Bulwer-Lytton Contest [Mass Market Paperback]

Scott Rice (Compiler)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 135 pages
• Publisher: Penguin Books (January 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 014010304X
• ISBN-13: 978-0140103045
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #130,219 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Laugh-out-loud funny, May 13, 2000

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This review is from: Bride of Dark and Stormy: Yet More of the Best (?) From the Bulwer-Lytton Contest (Mass Market Paperback)

Like all of the Dark and Stormy Night series, this is a collection of entries from a contest in which the aim is to write the worst opening sentence for a book.

Some rely on groanworthy puns, some on mixed metaphors, some on convoluted, endless sentences. The best ones are just bizarre. My favourite: "Ernest Hemingway had been his hero ever since he was belched out of his mother's angry, belligerent womb."

3.0 out of 5 stars Bride of Dark and Stormy, September 8, 2008

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This review is from: Bride of Dark and Stormy: Yet More of the Best (?) From the Bulwer-Lytton Contest (Mass Market Paperback)

I love the idea of this contest. The submissions were great...very funny. The world is full of creative people.

4.0 out of 5 stars Par for the course., February 12, 2002

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James Yanni (Bellefontaine Neighbors, Mo. USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bride of Dark and Stormy: Yet More of the Best (?) From the Bulwer-Lytton Contest (Mass Market Paperback)

This is the third of, at this point, five collections of entries to the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction contest, a contest in which the goal is to write the worst possible opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels.

Like all of the others of its kind, this book is tremendously enjoyable for those who find amusement in the intentional lampooning of bad writing. I must say that I found it the least amusing of the lot, but that still leaves it a marvellously funny romp. Well worth the effort of tracking down a copy.