The Eye of Argon, literary classic

[nancylebov]

Last night, I found out that esmeraldachubb and laughing_fox had never heard of The Eye of Argon. While it's a little weak on conventional stylistic virtues, it's given more pleasure to more people than a great many carefully polished works.

After having said "lithe opaque nose" several times and explained that a way of enjoying this unique masterpiece is to to have a group attempt to read it out loud (including the typos)--you pass the story to the next person as soon as you start laughing, I promised to post a link.

The last page was found recently and is included in the link above, but here's an critique which claims it doesn't match the style of the very original original.

Comments

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

It's so much fun to red it aloud, and any voice will do--robot voice, Boris'n'Natasha fake Russian, melodrama tremulo, Yoda--it's a crackup as performance art. I'd experienced it this way enough that actually sitting down in a quiet room, alone, and trying to read it, was not even fractionally as funny an experience.

[madfilkentist]

I like the MST3K crossover version.

[starmalachite.livejournal.com]

And we're... reading Argon, everyone!

[terriwells.livejournal.com]

Dear Ghu, has someone written this filk yet? *shudders* lol

I love that book!

[dakiwiboid.livejournal.com]

I actually quoted it in 42answers but didn't get many responses, to my sorrow.