This Best-Selling Novel, "I, Libertine" by FR Ewing, Was A Total Hoax!

[Yavin4]

[PoliticAverse]

1. This is why you should never believe anything you read in a novel. n/t

[TreasonousBastard]

2. I wa addicted to Sheperd when I was a kid, but in 1956 I...

was barely 10 years old and don't remember this.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

3. I'd never heard of this before

What an amazing story!

[2naSalit]

4. K&R

[Archae]

5. Some guys did a similar joke...

They created a novel called "Naked Came The Stranger," it was written as a joke too.

https://www.amazon.com/Naked-Came-Stranger-Penelope-Ashe/dp/152260748X

[AZSkiffyGeek]

6. A serious (and obnoxious) story that's a little similar

When Jerome Corsi put out his Swift boat book on Kerry, RW talk radio assholes went on the air talking about how bookstores were refusing to sell the book and had their listeners go to stores demanding it. This happened on a Friday.
The problem was the book wasn't actually being released until the next Tuesday and stores could get in trouble for selling it early.
So all these Dittoheads were in over the weekend accusing Borders and Barnes and Noble of being part of a liberal conspiracy because they wouldn't sell a book they legally couldn't sell.
The store I worked at was about a mile from a retirement community, so it was HELL.