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nolabear

(41,963 posts) Mon Jul 29, 2013, 10:16 PM Jul 2013

The 2013 Bullwer-Lytton Winners are out!

I look forward to this every year!

http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/2013win.html

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The 2013 Bullwer-Lytton Winners are out! (Original Post) nolabear Jul 2013 OP

...thanks for the link Tuesday Afternoon Jul 2013 #1

I swear some year I am going to win that damn contest. redwitch Jul 2013 #2

"...making me wish one or the other of us was hanging dead above us, instead of Rodney." pinboy3niner Jul 2013 #3

where eagles soar olddots Jul 2013 #4

These are great bits of writing!!! HeiressofBickworth Jul 2013 #5

I can recommend "The Last Days of Pompeii" - it's a doozy Glorfindel Jul 2013 #9

Semi-O/T: One of the dishonorable mentions is from an author named Mark Schweizer. winter is coming Jul 2013 #6

OOoooooooooooooo! sounds great! BlancheSplanchnik Jul 2013 #8

Yes. It's $2.99 on Nook. n/t winter is coming Jul 2013 #10

Thanks! Sounds like fun. nolabear Jul 2013 #14

well, this brightened up my otherwise shitty day. progressoid Jul 2013 #7

It was a dark and shitty day. tclambert Jul 2013 #11

!!! pinboy3niner Jul 2013 #12

*snort!* nolabear Jul 2013 #15

"..and the toilet had been removed, leaving us nothing to go on." rurallib Jul 2013 #13

ahhh, thank you for this. needed lots of laughs today. niyad Jul 2013 #16

Tuesday Afternoon

(56,912 posts)

1. ...thanks for the link

Reply to nolabear (Original post)

Mon Jul 29, 2013, 10:35 PM

Jul 2013

some real DUzies in there

redwitch

(14,944 posts)

2. I swear some year I am going to win that damn contest.

Reply to nolabear (Original post)

Mon Jul 29, 2013, 10:38 PM

Jul 2013

I love reading these!

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)

3. "...making me wish one or the other of us was hanging dead above us, instead of Rodney."

Reply to nolabear (Original post)

Mon Jul 29, 2013, 11:14 PM

Jul 2013

olddots

(10,237 posts)

4. where eagles soar

Reply to nolabear (Original post)

Tue Jul 30, 2013, 12:11 AM

Jul 2013

HeiressofBickworth

(2,682 posts)

5. These are great bits of writing!!!

Reply to nolabear (Original post)

Tue Jul 30, 2013, 12:19 AM

Jul 2013

I checked my bookcase and found that I have two Edward Bulwer Lytton books.

1849 - two novels in one book: The Caxtons and Kenelm Chillingly

1891 - What Will He Do With It
Unfortunately, this is a book in two volumes and I have only Volume II

I bought them particularly for the looks of the books -- very old-world. I've never read them, but now this has piqued my interest and I'm kinda between books right now so I'll start on the 1849 book.

Glorfindel

(9,729 posts)

9. I can recommend "The Last Days of Pompeii" - it's a doozy

Reply to HeiressofBickworth (Reply #5)

Tue Jul 30, 2013, 12:18 PM

Jul 2013

Now I'm going to have to look for "What Will He Do With It." Best name for a book I've ever come across.

winter is coming

(11,785 posts)

6. Semi-O/T: One of the dishonorable mentions is from an author named Mark Schweizer.

Reply to nolabear (Original post)

Tue Jul 30, 2013, 01:46 AM

Jul 2013

Some of his novels are available on the Kindle for 99 cents. His protagonist is a sheriff in a small town in North Carolina who's also the choirmaster and organist for the local Episcopalian church and writes execrable detective novels on Raymond Chandler's old Underwood typewriter. If you're acquainted with classical music, church politics, and/or the hard-boiled school of detective fiction, I highly recommend trying his first novel, The Alto Wore Tweed. It's laugh-out-loud funny.