38 Random Bits of Trivia About Novels, Poems and Basically Anything Else That Someone Wrote and Printed

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38 Random Bits of Trivia About Novels, Poems and Basically Anything Else That Someone Wrote and Printed

This list got us thinking — maybe we should print a collection of our random trivia and get them into bookstores. Sure, we’d probably lose a ton of money on such a venture, but we’d at least get to say that we’re published authors. That kind of clout more than makes up for financial losses, right? 

That was us actually asking our bosses right now, since we know they have to read and approve every list before clicking “publish.” 

Ooh, “publish.” That sounds nice. Here, you guys check out these random facts about written works while we hound the higher-ups for the go-ahead to print and ship.

Bernard Shaw

George T Bernard Shaw I CRACKED.COM Shaw fancied himself a better writer than Shakespeare, whom he called This 'immortal' pilferer of other men's stories and ideas, with his monstrous rhetorical fustian, his unbearable platitudes, his pretentious reduction of the subtlest problems of life to commonplaces against which a Polytechnic debating club would revolt.

King Charles

Prince Charles wrote a children's book. The Old Man of Lochnagar H.R.H. The Prince of Wales Illustrations by Sir Hugh Casson Charles, Princes of Wales has one job - to be Charles, Prince of Wales. But he also wrote The Old Man of Lochnagar, a children's book later made into a TV special starring Robbie Coltrane. CRACKED.COM

James Dickey

On Robert Frost GRAGKED.COM Said the poet James Dickey, If it were thought that anything I wrote was influenced by Robert Frost, I would take that particular work of mine, shred it, and flush it down the toilet, hoping not to clog the pipes.

Shakespeare

William T Shakespeare CRACKED.COM In King Lear, Oswald asks, What dost thou know of me? Answers Kent, (before beating Oswald's ass with a sword): A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; T one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the

Mark Twain

Mark Twain T 00 GRAGKED.COM Twain may have gone a little too far describing his hatred of Jane Austen's j writing: I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice. I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd T Garrison GRAGKED.COM This anti-slavery advocate didn't think highly of racist businessman politician George Train: Не is as destitute of principle as he is of sense, and is fast gravitating toward a lunatic asylum. Не may be of use in drawing an audience; but so would a kangaroo, a gorilla, or a hippopotamus.

D.H. Lawrence

00 D.H. Lawrence T CRACKED.COM Lawrence wrote bitterly of the publishers who rejected his novel Sons and Lovers: They've got white of egg in their veins, and their spunk is watery it's a marvel they can breed. They can nothing but frog-spawn- the gibberers!

Richard Wagner

On Richard T 00 Wagner CRACKED.COM Wrote art critic John Ruskin of one Wagner opera: Of all the affected, sapless, soulless, beginningless, endless, topless, bottomless, topsiturviest, scrannelpipiest, tongs and boniest doggerel of sounds I ever endured the deadliest of, that eternity of nothing was the deadliest.

Charles M. Schulz

GRACKED.COM Charles M Schulz, creator of Peanuts, died a day before his final comic strip was published, where he announced his retirement. ING

The Beatles

A-level girl In 1967, Paul McCartney dumps got the inspiration to write cor and vanishes She's Leaving Home . - - - when he saw a newspaper THE FATHER of On IT - Melanie schoolgirl have everything the the under - 1 para to windows article about a wealthy Lombon - Brightin for - - - THE Sex - - - - - - - - has - 17-year-old runaway. the - to - - - - the - - would - - - - - - - - by SYPEPPERS LONELY HEARTS ND What McCartney didn't realize was that

Life Magazine

Istroduction & the fied of The first photo inside LIFE the November 1936 first issue of LIFE was a newborn boy. His name NOTEMBER 20,1936 was George Story. Не died shortly after it was announced that the magazine would cease publication in April 2000. GRAGKED.COM

Akira

Akira, a 1982 manga by Katsuhiro Otomo that was later adapted into a 1988 animated film, is set in a dystopian 2019 against the backdrop of an ЕТ 2020 Neo-Tokyo Olympics. 30 years later, in 2013, Tokyo was chosen to host the Summer Olympics in 2020. CRACKED.COM

Edgar Allan Poe

The Cask Of Amontillado is one of Poe's darkest tales. Poe wrote it to burn his rival. A writer named Thomas Dunn English took a swipe at Edgar Allan Poe by writing a drunken author character into one of his stories. Poe fired back with Amontillado, which is about a man in a clown costume being chained to a wall, then entombed and left to die as his killer mocks his cries for help. CRACKED.COM http://storyoftheweek.loa.org/2012/04/cask-of-amontillado.html

Harry Potter

Dolores Umbridge is a sadistic Harry Potter character. She's a parody of a real person. The character is based on a real teacher that J.K. Rowling didn't get along with. She says that the teacher's style reminded her of a three-year-old, and that the dislike was mutual. So she immortalized her as one of the most hated characters in her book series. http://www.stylist.co.uk/books/j-k-rowling-reveals-the-real-life-inspiration- CRACKED.COM behind-professor-dolores-umbridge-in-new-harry-potter-story-halloween

Huckleberry Finn

The Walter Scott was a steamboat in Huckleberry Finn. It was named that as an insult. Author Mark Twain thought Sir Walter Scott's novels glorified war and were to blame for much of the windy humbuggeries of the South, which led to things like duels or even the Civil War itself. So Twain named a steamboat after Scott, then had it carried away by a strong current and wrecked against some rocks. CRACKED.COM Ira Fistell, 2012. Mark Twain: Three Encounters.

Naked Came The Stranger

Naked Came The Stranger was a bestseller. ked Came The munt Came The Strange by Penelope Ashe It was written as a parody. In 1966, Newsday reporter Mike McGrady thought romance fiction was stupid. Не sent a memo to several of his writer friends proposing that they work together to write the steamingest pile of crap they could come up with. They published it under the name Penelope Ashe, and it was a runaway hit. CRACKED.COM http://www.openroedia.com/contributor/penelope-ashe/

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.

The Lost Forrest Gump Sequel

Forrest Gump FORREST GUMP 2: GUMP & CO. didn't happen because of 9 11. The author quickly published a sequel book (about New Coke and Exxon Valdez and

The Girl from Petrovka

Anthony Hopkins stole the wrong (or right?) book. THE GIRL FROM PETROVKA CRACKED CON Hopkins was cast in the film adaptation of George Feifer's novel

Gokin Ishihara

This is the work of children's illustrator Gojin B O Sh<uf U Ishihara, AKA Japan's Norman Rockwell, whose prolific career started at 75007 age 10.

Ken Kesey

ONE FLENOVER THE CUCKCSNEST Ken Kesey, the author of the novel which the film was based on, said that the filmmakers violated their verbal agreement t

The Exorcist

CRACKEDG COM Nobody wanted to film The Exorcist because the novel it is based on was a commerical flop. Author William Peter Blatty was turned down by

Harry Potter

Emma Watson frantically called J.K. Rowling on the phone before her audition. The author of the Harry Potter book series had always pictured Hermione

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

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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