372 Pages We ll Never Get Back
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A new book is on the way!
🕑 Added 2019-03-04 20:59:32 +0000 UTCWe'll have an announcement hopefully later this week, but until then, any guesses?
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Theodore Lehman
If someone's using the word "circumlocutory" to describe a book's purple prose, that book had better have the purplest prose that ever was.
Christian
It's an illustration from The Eye of Argon
Christian
I'm going with Irene Iddesleigh. From Wikipedia: "Irene Iddesleigh (Amanda McKittrick Ros, 1897): published by the author's husband as an anniversary present, Irene Iddesleigh is often described as the worst novel ever written, with purple prose that is circumlocutory to the point of incomprehensibility. It was "popularised" by Barry Pain who called it "a thing that happens once in a million years." Mark Twain called it "one of the greatest unintentionally humorous novels of all time," while the Inklings competed to see who could read one of Ros's works for the longest without laughter (cf. The Eye of Argon below)"
Mike Suhr
Wait, is that a talking cat? Is this a film novelization?
