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Jul. 18, 2009 By holly
Atlanta Nights will make you laugh. It will make you cry. It will make you laugh so hard you cry and cry so hard that you laugh or do both at the same time, creating a kind of wheezy sound. What more can you really ask for in a novel?
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Sep. 4, 2008 By T. Nielsen Hayden
"Let's just say it's Differently Good"
The world is full of bad books written by amateurs. But why settle for the merely regrettable? Atlanta Nights is a bad book written by experts.



"Travis Tea," bless his nonexistent little heart, is the umbrella pseudonym of a group of professional authors and editors, mostly drawn from the SF and fantasy field, who each wrote a chapter or two in order to produce a book that superficially resembles a plausible novel, but gets worse the longer you look at it. The finished work was launched in the direction of Frederick, Maryland, where it successfully completed its mission of eliciting an offer of publication from a "traditional... More > publisher."



Now, through the miracle of the Internet plus digital offset printing, this unique and cherished work can be yours.



The prose is an education all by itself. The chapter numbering has to be seen to be believed. Watch out for the two wildly disparate chapters written by two different authors who were independently working from the same segment of plot outline. Then there are the characters who die in one chapter and wander back into the action in a later one, and the characters that idly change race, gender, and motivation (it was a very sparse plot outline). Space, time, and causality are trifled with shamelessly. The especially beloved and completely incoherent Chapter 34 was written by a text generator that had been fed some earlier chapters.



But the book's moment of true genius comes, not when one of the characters wakes up and realizes that all of the foregoing chapters were a dream, but when that happens AND THEN THE BOOK CONTINUES ANYWAY.



(Kudos to author James D. Macdonald, wicked mastermind of this group writing project, for coming up with a plot twist that's even more appalling than the "it was all a dream" ending.)



Buy this book, and guarantee yourself hour upon hour of innocent and educational fun. < Less
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Feb. 7, 2005 By Jenna Glatzer
"You've Ruined Me For All Other Books"
I think I shall never read again, for any other words will only pale in a very limp comparison to this, the Most Believable Book That Ever Was, the Stunning Masterpiece that caused the frontal lobe of my cerebral cortex to eject itself through my ear, go for a walk, hurl itself off a cliff, then return to me. Different than before. Not the same.


This book tackles life's greatest mysteries head-on and, I dare to say, provides a level of insight you've never seen before. I was heading for a life of despair, down the wrong path, until this book came and set me free. "She’d choked to death on a cocktail frank while watching infomercial," I read,... More > and o! How I shuddered that I might befall the same fate. You saved my life, Mr. Tea. I put down my cocktail frank right there and changed the channel to Animal Planet. You don't even know me, but I want to thank you for saving my life.


Bravo. Bravo, I say, Mr. Tea. This reader thinks you've earned your place in the literary canon, and will always have a special place in my heart carved out just for you. < Less
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Sep. 17, 2007 By MacAllister Stone
"Why on earth..." would a talented, smart, dedicated, and otherwise exemplary group of people participate in a hoax of this magnitude? For a worthy cause, I suppose.

I anticipate MANY pleasant hours reading and re-reading this piece of utter dreck--trying to puzzle out which of my favorite writers to blame for each and every dreadful chapter.

I just hope I recover from the annoying twitch beneath my left eye that I developed upon reading the first three pages. Fans in the know could develop an online game of "identify-the-chapter-writer" to keep ourselves occupied for months.
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Feb. 15, 2007 By Kimberly Merriweather
"a basic primer how to on what not to do" I found a copy of this book at the free table in my local library and after recalling some buzz about it, I picked it up, took it home and read it. I must say, it's so bad it made my eyes and head hurt, yet so funny that I almost busted a gut from laughing so hard. I returned it to the library so some other person could pick it up, but left a vague note... "it's not what you think it is."

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Product Details

ISBN 978-1-4116-2298-2
Copyright Standard Copyright License
Published February 9, 2007
Language English
Pages 299
 
Binding Perfect-bound Paperback
Interior Ink Black & white
Dimensions (inches) 6.0 wide × 9.0 tall

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