[HN Gopher] I, Libertine ___________________________________________________________________ I, Libertine Author : sublinear Score : 80 points Date : 2023-01-22 18:39 UTC (4 hours ago) (HTM) web link (en.wikipedia.org) (TXT) w3m dump (en.wikipedia.org) | mjklin wrote: | See 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 | rippercushions wrote: | Finnish rapper Petri Laurila started out as "NuEra", offering | incisive social critique about societal problems. Critics loved | him, sales were dismal. | | As a joke, he then released as album that was as crass and low | brow as possible, rapping about getting drunk and having sex, | with hilariously bad lyrics ("don't be so apathic [sic]/my mind | is automatic/the first time I ate pussy it tasted tomatic"). It | was a runaway success and he's been milking the cow ever since. | | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petri_Nyg%C3%A5rd | Cthulhu_ wrote: | Reminds me of Filthy Frank / Joji and the Pink Album, he | seems to be doing alright these days with a lot less | offensive music / caricatures. | | (fun fact, he started the Harlem Shake thing from some time | ago) | narag wrote: | And a film about an intentionally bad play: | https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063462/ | bitwize wrote: | Pretty much the Polybius of literature, right down to it becoming | real. | Tokkemon wrote: | Austin McConnell has a wonderful video all about this story. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7H5kFGEyUw | asalahli wrote: | Austin McConnell has the perfect combination of good | storytelling and finding the most interesting random topics. | Love his videos. | jccalhoun wrote: | A modern version is "The Diamond Club" by 'Patricia Harkins- | Bradley' but was group written by the fans of a podcast. They | took advantage of how itunes and amazon rankings work to have all | their fans buy them at once to put them on the top of the sales | chart. | https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/234388-sur... | https://www.bookbusinessmag.com/article/fifty-shades-then-so... | hprotagonist wrote: | https://variety.com/2022/film/news/martin-scorsese-addresses... | bhargav wrote: | This is exactly how most books make it in the times list now a | days too | tastysandwich wrote: | Gotta say I love these random Wikipedia articles that pop up. | They're always something I didn't exactly need to know, but verge | enough on the absurd that I just have to read. | | Despite it being a big joke, I wonder what contemporary reviews | of the book actually were, and how many copies ended up selling? | aatd86 wrote: | Wait til I ask ChatGPT to create a vacuous story about an AI bot | that wasn't encoded with Asimov laws called phatGCT and publish | on Amazon... | thedailymail wrote: | The pull quote on the cover, "Gadzooks,' quoth I, 'but here's a | saucy bawd!", is itself a funny poke at a cliche in historical | writing known as gadzookery. | | https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gadzookery ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-01-22 23:00 UTC)