25 Random Bits of Trivia About Books and Other Written Works That Are Definitely Something to Write Home About

Ma and Pa are definitely gonna wanna hear about these
25 Random Bits of Trivia About Books and Other Written Works That Are Definitely Something to Write Home About
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Since the folks back home will be excited to hear what you’re up to, we recommend printing this list, writing their address on it and stamping it. Treat it as a big postcard of sorts. You’re clearly into physical copies of written works enough to do so.

And since you are, we apologize that the printed Cracked magazine hasn’t been thing for a long time. But hey, enough eyes on this list could act as a petition to get the printers rolling again!

Knives Out

Daniel Craig's detective in Knives Out gives a nod to the 1972 film Sleuth. Craig, who plays the private eye Benoit Blanc, is first introduced in the film after having solved a case involving a tennis player. In the opening of Sleuth, the crime fiction writer dictates his novel, and he describes the killer pacing the lines of a tennis court before getting rid of a body. CRACKED.COM

Jaws

Jaws PETER BENCHLEY JAWS A Novel The book's author has a cameo. The reporter who utters the amazing line a cloud in the shape of a killer shark is Peter Benchley, who wrote the novel the movie is based on. CRACKED COM

J.G. Ballard

CRACKED.COM J. G. Ballard rebuked a journalist for dissing David Cronenberg's CRASH. The movie is actually better than book, Ballard said to a Finnish journalist who said the adaptation watered down the novel. It goes further than the book, and is much more powerful and dynamic. It's terrific. (Ot that's how Cronenberg remembers it, at any rate.)

LeVar Burton

Aftermath by LeVar Burton is a sci-fi novel about civil war in the U.S. *DEFTLY CRAFTED ADDS NEW DEPTH AND PERSPECTIVE TO THE SCIENCE FICTION GENRE Denver Post LEVAR BURTON AFTERMATH ROVERN OF THE FUTURE In the book, civil war breaks out after an earthquake and the assassination of the first African-American U.S. president. Somehow, the plot features an evil scientist kidnapping non-white Americans to harvest their organs. CRACKED.COM

The Thorn Birds

Colleen McCullough declared that The Thorn Birds TV adaptation is instant vomit. Despite being the second most watched miniseries in TV history, the author would refuse to talk about it during interviews. In 2009, McCullough helped develop a THE musical based on Colleen THOR her book that better BIRDS reflected her writing. CRACKED CON

The Cat Who Authored An Academic Paper

A cat was named co-author in a physicist's paper in 1975 because of a grammar typo. CRACKED.COM Jack H. Hetherington made his cat named F.D.C. Wil- lard the co-author of a ра- per because he'd acciden- tally written We instead of I throughout the ра- per and didn't feel like changing it.

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The Thrill of the Chase

CRACKED THE FENN TREASURE A millionaire from Santa Fe hid a treasure chest full of gold and gems in the Rocky Mountains six years ago. Lots of people have gone looking for it, and he wrote a poem with clues to the location in his book, The Thrill of the Chase.

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Raisins and Grapes

RAISINS VS. GRAPES LITERATURE THE GRAPES SofWWATH a raisin in the John Strinbeck sun A Raisin in the Sun is one The Grapes of Wrath by of the most important John Steinbeck is an plays ever written, and an essential American novel, American classic. It and won both the National debuted on Broadway in Book Award and the 1959. It is much better Pulitzer Prize. than eating raisins. CRACKED.COM

KFC’s Romance Novella

KFC's horny sex fiction CRACKED.COM KFC used the occasion of Mothers Day 2017 to commission an 83-page romance novella, called Tender Wings of Desire.

Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson wanted her poetry to disappear with her. hat zch Dickinson left strict instructions to her sister Lavinia to burn every last poem she

Anne Parrish

In the 1920s, American writer Anne Parrish found one of her childhood favorites, Jack Frost and Other Stories, while browsing book stalls in Paris. It

Pitch Perfect

Pitch Perfect (2012) is actually an adaptation of a non-fiction book which discusses a cappella subculture in colleges. 'Pitch Perfect The Quest for C

Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer predicted his own future. Norman Mailer Barbary Shore THe aig fRC DLOCKDUSTING THE T WRITER NOVEL -NAT HENTOFE, N NERICA B.20 VREEK Mail

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