35 Facts About Books, Authors and the Publishing Industry That You Could Print Out on Tree Guts if You’re Feeling Particularly Barbaric

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35 Facts About Books, Authors and the Publishing Industry That You Could Print Out on Tree Guts if You’re Feeling Particularly Barbaric
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If it’s been written and printed on paper, we’ve probably got a fact about it. That said, please don’t print this list, since we’d then have to find a fact about it too, and we’re exhausted. 

It’s not easy writing up a blurb for a list of random literary facts, so like an author typing up the final chapter of their beastly novel, we’re dozing off at our screen. Like, there are exactly 91 words in this blurb for chrissakes, so check out these sweet tidbits while we take a much-deserved nap.

Ancient Greek Sci-Fi

A True Story, the first sci-fi novel, was written in Greek during the 2nd century CE. A OTKIANOT ARANTA LVCIANI SAMOSATENSIS Opera, que quidem extant omnia. Grace بركم It featured robots, space travel, aliens, artificial atmospheres, and more. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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The Bridge on the River Kwai

October on HBOMAX The Bridge on October 1 the River Kwai The film is based on a novel by French writer Pierre Boulle, who also wrote the original Planet of the Apes. CRACKED.COM

Source: Wikipedia
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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

The author of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer used the money to pay off his late wife's cancer bills by Robert L. May was a copywriter at a department store. Не was tasked to come up with a kid's book to give out to customers for free and created Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Since he was work-for-hire, May didn't receive any money for his incredibly famous character until he managed to convince the head of the department store to sign off the licensing to him, 8 years later. CRACKED.COM

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Cujo

LIFE AND LEGACY OF STEPHEN KING CRACKED.COM He can't remember writing Cujo. It was during his addiction years that King penned the book about the good dog getting rabies and turning bad. There's one novel, Cujo, that I barely remember writing at all. I don't say that with pride or shame, only with a vague sense of sorrow and loss. I like that book. I wish I could remember enjoying the good parts as I put them down on the page.

Jaws

Jaws CRACKED COM This was actually somewhat of a remake. Peter Benchley, author of the bestselling novel that Jaws was based on, pretty much his angry shark a origin story. That book was made was into a TV movie called Creature.

Mother Night

35 Facts About Books, Authors and the Publishing Industry That You Could Print Out on Tree Guts if You’re Feeling Particularly Barbaric

I Am Legend

35 Facts About Books, Authors and the Publishing Industry That You Could Print Out on Tree Guts if You’re Feeling Particularly Barbaric

Jurassic Park

JURASSIC PARK THE NOVEL JURASSIC PARK HAS A BABY-EATING SCENE. One night, a nurse finds a swarm of lizard-like mini-dinos crowding around a baby in a

Trump Nation: The Art of Being Donald Trump

TRUMP ONCE SUED NEW YORK TIMES WRITER TIMOTHY O'BRIEN FOR CALLING TRUMP A CRaun MILLIONAIRE INSTEAD OF A BILLIONAIRE IN HIS BOOK. TIMOTHY L. O'BRIEN T

Ern Malley

In 1944, a poetry journal dedicated an issue to Ern Malley. 1944 AutumnNumber to Commemorate the Australian Poet Ern Malley Ern Nlalley never existed.

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