I, Libertine
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I, Libertine
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#2Austin McConnell has a wonderful video all about this story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7H5kFGEyUw
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#3See also: “Naked Came the Stranger” and “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls”. Works that were intentionally, provocatively bad, yet successful.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_Came_the_Stranger
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_the_Valley_of_the_Dolls
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#4This is exactly how most books make it in the times list now a days too
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#5Austin McConnell has a wonderful video all about this story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7H5kFGEyUw
Austin McConnell has the perfect combination of good storytelling and finding the most interesting random topics. Love his videos.
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#6See also: “Naked Came the Stranger” and “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls”. Works that were intentionally, provocatively bad, yet successful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_Came_the_Stranger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_the_Valley_of_the_Dolls
And a film about an intentionally bad play: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063462/
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#7Pretty much the Polybius of literature, right down to it becoming real.
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#9See also: “Naked Came the Stranger” and “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls”. Works that were intentionally, provocatively bad, yet successful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_Came_the_Stranger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_the_Valley_of_the_Dolls
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#10The pull quote on the cover, "Gadzooks,' quoth I, 'but here's a saucy bawd!", is itself a funny poke at a cliché in historical writing known as gadzookery.