Naked Came the Stranger

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Summary: It proves a point, that's it
Review: A group of journalists wrote this book to find out if a deliberately bad but sex-filled novel would sell well. Unfortunately it did sell well, and sales exceeded their expectations.

This book is SUPPOSED to be bad. And almost all of it is bad in dull, non-humorous way.

You should remember the point this book made, but you shouldn't read it.

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Summary: now try this
Review: i did not read naked came the stranger, but i read a hilarious account of how this book came about by mike mcgrady called "stranger than naked or how to write a dirty book for fun and profit." i am currently in search for another copy for a friend because i laughed out loud reading how 25 writers pulled a very professional hoax. hope you read it, its great!

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Summary: Unintentionally Classic
Review: It's a terrible book. The characters are uninteresting, the motivations are obscure, the machinery is obvious, the sex is strange and unerotic, the writing is terrible. But in spite of everything, Naked Came The Stranger is a hoot. There's nothing you can point at and say, "This redeems", but the book is so weirdly enjoyable that it really doesn't matter. Read it in autumn, hide it from your friends, finish it in an afternoon. One of my all-time favorites.

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Summary: A great poolside read!
Review: Knowing beforehand that each chapter was written by a different author was what led me to read it (I had to borrow it from a college prof since it's so hard to find)--and it in no way hindered my reading! The book came together extremely well and was a thoroughly enjoyable romp through the intertwining lives of the characters. It's become a staple on my bookshelf for when I just need a good quick read.

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Summary: now try this
Review: Since borrowing a dog-eared copy from friends who were passing it around a number of years ago, I have not been able to get my hands on this book which became a short-lived cult favorite -- hope Amazon.com can come through! Under a "nom de plume," a group of writers each took a chapter to prove how ostensibly easy it is to write a successful "trash novel!" All the talk shows were trying to get the non-existent author Penelope Ashe for interviews! Sexy but outrageously funny -- ice cubes will never be the same!

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Summary: It's brilliant, it's a parody, it's a horrible book
Review: The five stars are for the concept which was to write a terrible, formulaic book. They succeeded.

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Summary: The First Postmodern Novel
Review: This book deserves to be reissued in a critical annotated edition. The question of "authorship" and "authenticity" which caused such a fuss 30 odd years ago, may have been rendered moot by Deconstruction. Then there is always the possibility that the 25 "real" authors were covering for an anonymous "real" real author, etc., ad infinitum... But then I was one of those people who thought Klaatu was really the Beatles. Anyway NCTS serves well as a barometer of the Zeitgeist of the cusp of the 60's-70's.