For a writer, it’s pretty heady stuff to have your books read by the likes of Mark Twain and Aldous Huxley. Unless, of course, they’re reading you just for laughs, which happened to be the case.
Meet Amanda McKittrick Ros, named by many as the worst novelist ever. How bad was she? A literary festival in Belfast is having a competition to see how long folks can read her stuff out loud without cracking up.
Try it yourself, with this passage. Remember, read aloud: The living sometimes learn the touchy tricks of the traitor, the tardy and the tempted; the dead have evaded the flighty earthy future and form to swell the retinue of retired rights, the righteous school of the invisible and the rebellious roar of the raging nothing.
Be honest. Milk is coming out of your nose already, isn’t it? Paul Majendie reports:
Amanda McKittrick Ros is seen in this undated handout image released by the Linen Hall Library on September 21, 2006. REUTERS/Linen Hall Library/Handout”
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Her writing style would be en vouge today. She’d be a hit with writing songs for Metallica and other dip-drip metal bands.
- Posted by rob