Has anyone else heard about this?
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www.monsoonbooks.com.sg]
Apparently it's been out for six months. It's a 60,000 word novel written without using the letter 'e' (a lipogram, in other words). 60,000 words would make it the second longest lipogram of 'e' ever written in English (*the* longest to be originally written in English, considering that "A Void" was a translation of the French "La disparition").
I would have expected more fuss over this achievement, but apparently not. I suspect the author's done himself no favours by:
a) using a pseudonym, and indeed generally avoiding publicity;
b) having his book published by a small press in Singapore;
c) choosing intellectual density over readability (just my opinion, but have a look at the sample chapter and decide for yourselves).
What do people reckon? Is this a potential big literary event that's been hobbled by poor marketing choices, or is this just not the sort of thing readers in general care about these days?
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work is a vampire that sucks me dry
which is a metaphor
but still the reason I stuck a chair leg through my manager