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[Bigtone53]

Re-reading (as I often do) an old friend, I came across the following, which does not seem to me at least to be immediately searchable.

Honker, Ronson and Gloop, APB Journal, August 1958, pages sixteen to twenty-three, annotated bibliography.

It is part of the dialogue, rather than an annotation.

[MCC]

Is this from a work of fiction

Or

Is it factual


MCC

[Bigtone53]

Is this from a work of fiction

Or

Is it factual

It is from a work of fiction, although this may not be immediately obvious when you start reading the work

[MCC]

Let's see if we can get this one resolved.

What sort of fiction is it, is it:

Science

Popular

Mystery

Historical

Literary

Detective/crime

Horror

Romantic

Western


MCC

[Bigtone53]

I am probably in over my head now . My intention was to find a hard to search item with interesting words in a 'likely to have been read' book but let me try and answer the questions as honestly as I can

What sort of fiction is it, is it:

Science

No, not science fiction

Popular

No, I don't think so

Mystery

No

Historical

No

Literary

Possibly, depending on definition

Detective/crime
Horror

No

Romantic

probably not

Western

Not in the cowboy sense.

[Myth Jellies]

Hmm, not likely to be in the likely to be read category, but I will give it a try...

Is this Ronson a deity of Apathy?

[MCC]

So we have a nonPopular (possibly), occidental, literary (needs defining) book.

Let's see if we can narrow it down a bit more.

Is the author:

Male

Female

In which decade was it written:

1950's

1960's

1970's

1980's

1990's

2000's

Has it been entered into any of these literary prizes/awards:

Nobel

Man Brooker

Pulitzer

Whitbread

Hugo

Quill

Vincent

MCC

[Bigtone53]

Is the author:

Male

Female

Male

In which decade was it written:

1950's

1960's

1970's

1980's

1990's

2000's

Published in the 1970's but I guess it could have been at least partially written in the 1960's

As to the prizes, I will have to research and get back to you.

[Bigtone53]

Hmm, not likely to be in the likely to be read category, but I will give it a try...

Is this Ronson a deity of Apathy?

No

[Bigtone53]

Has it been entered into any of these literary prizes/awards:

Nobel

Man Brooker

Pulitzer

Whitbread

Hugo

Quill

Vincent

I cannot trace any such entries

[Bigtone53]

Just to give this almost dead horse a final revival attempt before it expires, the quote is not from some remote obscure book. I see that in 1995 a BBC production named it “One of the fifty most influential books of the last half of the twentieth century.”

[udosuk]

Thanks for the cue from Bigtone53...

This book?

I hope someone owning a copy of that book can verify it...

It's delightful that in the trend of internet piracy these days the content of that novel (a famous one) isn't searchable via google...

[Bigtone53]

Yes, that book. I realised almost as soon as I did it that having tried hard to find a non-searchable quote from a relatively major book, the hint itself was immediately searchable. Doh!