Talk:Naked Came the Stranger
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[edit] NKTS, The Movie
Naked Came the Stranger at The Internet Movie Database
Is the movie mentioned related to the book? Andjam 12:41, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
- Considering that IMDB's recommendation is "Buttman's British Extremely Big Tit Adventure", I would guess that this is indeed the porn movie mentioned in the article. ;) --IanOsgood 01:32, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
- Yes it is. Maikel 18:46, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] All-Male Or Coed?
Quote: McGrady recruited an all-male team (according to Andreas Schroder[1], the authors consisted of five women and 19 men, 24 writers in total) of Newsday cohorts to collaborate on a sexually explicit novel ... all male or mixed-sex, which one is it? Maikel 21:16, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] I doubt it
Quote: Fulfilling McGrady's cynical expectations, the book was wildly successful. As sales continued to increase, many of the co-authors felt guilty about the large amounts of money they were earning, and went public. In a most unusual display of bravado, the male authors gave their "confession" on The David Frost Show ... The book eventually spent one week on the New York Times Best Seller list, ... to me, that doesn't compute. If the book spent one week on the the bestseller list after the hoax was disclosed, I wouldn't call it "wildly successful" (it would be interesting to know just how successful it really was). Next, I doubt whether the royalties of a single book which hadn't even reached the status of national bestseller split 25-ways would be enough to make anyone feel guilty. Finally, appearing on the David Frost Show can hardly be described as "an unusual display of bravado". Maikel 03:09, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
- On the other hand, [1] claims: ... Naked Came the Stranger shot to the top of the New York Times Bestseller list and stayed there for 25 weeks, selling millions of copies (each of the writers got their share of the $1.2 million it took in). Maikel 03:29, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Just how bad is it?
In case anyone who hasn't read the book is wondering whether the book is "so bad it's good in a postmodern way" or "downright bad", it really is downright bad. And although the book centers around fornication, it's about as sexy as witnessing your grandparents getting it on. Maikel 03:09, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Was the publisher in on the scam?
Well, was he? Maikel 03:17, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Robert Greene
The article says that one author was "Robert Greene", and links to Robert Greene (author). But the book was published in 1969 and that Robert Greene was born in 1959, which makes me assume that the link is incorrect. DWorley (talk) 20:37, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
