Has anyone actually read the "It was a dark and stormy night" book?

Cafe Society
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There was an entire Batman story written in cliche.

It was a dark and stormy night.

A shot rang out.

Etc. It was pretty funny.

Tris

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Count me in the minority, but I think that the opening lines of Paul Clifford are vivid and quite well done.

Maybe readers of post-Hemingway prose are not used to long sentences with a lot of dependent clauses. But they were tyical in 19th-century English prose; read the opening lines of Dickens novels, for heaven’s sake.

In further defense of Bulwer-Lytton, his 1859 story of the occult, “The Haunted and the Haunters,” is still widely reprinted in horror anthologies.

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[QUOTE=Exapno Mapcase]
I love the way it all comes together in the end.
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But what about the king?

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[QUOTE=RealityChuck]
Nothing – but it is not the only way to go.
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It is if you want people to buy next month’s installment. Bulwer Lytton wrote, in part, to make money.

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[QUOTE=Triskadecamus]
There was an entire Batman story written in cliche.

It was a dark and stormy night.

A shot rang out.
[/QUOTE]

Those are very close to the first two lines of Snoopy’s “great novel,” the entire first chapter of which I believe is:
It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly, a shot rang out. A door slammed. The maid screamed. Suddenly, a pirate ship appeared on the horizon. While millions of people were starving, the king lived in luxury. Meanwhile, on a small farm in Kansas, a girl was growing up.