Irene Iddesleigh Amanda McKittrick Ros 9780987650825 Books
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"Who was the worst novelist in history? A schoolmistress from Northern Ireland whose novels were so uniquely and thrillingly terrible that, in the early years of the last century, she became an ironic cause célèbre among the cultural luminaries of her time.
"There were Amanda McKittrick Ros societies at Oxford and Cambridge. C.S.Lewis, J.R.R.Tolkien, and their fellow Inklings held sporadic Ros reading competitions, in which the winner was the member who could read from one of her novels for the longest without breaking into laughter.
"This stuff is, in lowish doses, quite entertaining, but if you read enough of it, its absurdity seems to spread outward to the whole of literature. Ros' writing is not just bad, in other words; its badness is so potent that it seems to undermine the very idea of literature.
"The book has not amused. It began by doing that. Then, as its enormities went on getting more and more enormous in every line, the book seemed something titanic, gigantic, awe-inspiring. The world was full of Irene Iddesleigh, and I shrank before it in tears and in terror."
—from Epic Fail by Mark O'Connell
Irene Iddesleigh Amanda McKittrick Ros 9780987650825 Books
WaPo called it the worst book ever written. Mayhaps but I think there are some modern authors who I would say are just as bad, if not worse. Overly florid, with more phrases in convoluted language than any contract written by a tribunal of lawyers, it was an entertaining read. The story line was straightforward, despite phrasing that wandered here and there and looping about itself. Given the era when was written, and that it was published as a gift, it could have been much much worse. For those who can't make it past the first paragraph, it's the story of an orphan who was adopted at 11, and despite loving her tutor, married the wealthy bachelor neighbor. When her husband found out she married him but didn't love him, and had kept in contact with her old tutor even while married, a couple of months after the birth of their child he had her locked in a room in the mansion. And, it wasn't just any room, but a room that had been the room where ancestral relatives had not only been confined, but killed themselves. The wife's faithful maid helped her escape into the arms of the tutor. They sailed to the USA, took up residence in a small town in N.Y. (which I am familiar with, but apparently the author wasn't) and became a bigamist by marrying her tutor.After years had passed, the tutor became a drunkard, committed suicide which caused Irene to sail back to England. In a series of incredible coincidences she meets everyone from her past who was still alive, she learns her fraternal uncle had bought her second husband 's old home, her original husband was deceased, and upon meeting her grown son, is thrown off the property. Her body is found a day or so later in the yard of the home of the family that adopted her.
The tl;dr version - Every person in this woman's circle ended up having a miserable life.
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Irene Iddesleigh Amanda McKittrick Ros 9780987650825 Books Reviews
This book is insane. That's the only way to describe it. But a delight nonetheless. If you can make sense of any pat of it, you are a better person than I. )
This book is as bad as I had heard, a masterwork of inept writing.
C. S. Lewis said that this was the worst book ever written in the English language. He and the Inklings had a parlor game. One of them would start reading it aloud, and see how many sentences he read before someone started laughing. It is a total hoot.
Well, I do love it, for all the wrong reasons. Ros is generally considered the worst novelist in English. Her run-on prose, penchant for alliteration (note the title), and casual redundancies ("12 o'clock noon") are wonders to behold. I know that J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other Oxford dons used to get together and read Ros aloud to see how far one could read without cracking up.
This book was pretty painful to read. I had to stop, but I might finish it another time if I can summon up enough courage and fortitude. Courage alone (by itself) would not be enough. I would need fortitude as well. However, I find the heroine's last name, Iddesleigh, strangely compelling. I'm not sure why. Perhaps I've been some how beguiled by it.
Overwrought, melodramatic and nonsensical… and that can be said of just the first paragraph. Fortunately, (unfortunately?) it applies to the rest of this book as well. Here you have a great historical example of something being so bad, it’s good. Ms. Ros has had the honor of having her work poked fun at by the likes of Mark Twain and Aldous Huxley… with good reason. This book is wretched.
From the purple prose, to the nonsensical story and the slap-dash manner it’s told. It really needs to be read to be believed. I can’t in good conscience give this more than 3 stars… but if you need a laugh, I’d recommend a trip to Dilworth Castle to hear the tragic tale of Irene.
When I heard a description of Irene Iddesleigh as the worst novel ever, I didn't shun it, but instead regarded it as a challenge. After all, just as some movies are so bad, they're good, the same may occur for books. And, at the very least, a bad story will make you appreciate the good ones all the more.
First, the plot, briefly Irene Iddesleigh, an orphan adopted by a Lord and Lady on the brink of bankruptcy, marries a wealthy, much older man. Her heart, however, belongs to another, and this love triangle will prove problematic for all three.
It is apparent from the get-go that this is a poorly written story. The plot and characters are passable enough, but the author, Amanda McKittrick Ros, is incapable of good description. Instead, she uses ten words where one would do, giving her prose an unnecessary ornateness. Sentences often run on and on; even if grammatically correct, you can't wait for them to end.
At times, I wondered if this was supposed to be a parody, but my understanding is that she took her work very seriously, resented the critics of her work and never really got the fact that her success was due to the badness of her writing, not its quality. Much as truly awful songs or movies may get a cult following nowadays, so apparently did Irene Iddesleigh gain a level of popularity in its time. Authors as well-known as Mark Twain, Aldous Huxley, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien were "fans" of her bad writing.
For me, however, this is a bad book, but it is not the worst book I've ever read. After a while, in fact, one can get the rhythm of her writing and it begins to move better. Just as Plan 9 from Outer Space is described as the worst movie ever when it really isn't, such is Irene Iddesleigh. Yes, on sheer quality terms, it might merit one star, but there is enough entertainment value in its faults to raise it to three.
WaPo called it the worst book ever written. Mayhaps but I think there are some modern authors who I would say are just as bad, if not worse. Overly florid, with more phrases in convoluted language than any contract written by a tribunal of lawyers, it was an entertaining read. The story line was straightforward, despite phrasing that wandered here and there and looping about itself. Given the era when was written, and that it was published as a gift, it could have been much much worse. For those who can't make it past the first paragraph, it's the story of an orphan who was adopted at 11, and despite loving her tutor, married the wealthy bachelor neighbor. When her husband found out she married him but didn't love him, and had kept in contact with her old tutor even while married, a couple of months after the birth of their child he had her locked in a room in the mansion. And, it wasn't just any room, but a room that had been the room where ancestral relatives had not only been confined, but killed themselves. The wife's faithful maid helped her escape into the arms of the tutor. They sailed to the USA, took up residence in a small town in N.Y. (which I am familiar with, but apparently the author wasn't) and became a bigamist by marrying her tutor.
After years had passed, the tutor became a drunkard, committed suicide which caused Irene to sail back to England. In a series of incredible coincidences she meets everyone from her past who was still alive, she learns her fraternal uncle had bought her second husband 's old home, her original husband was deceased, and upon meeting her grown son, is thrown off the property. Her body is found a day or so later in the yard of the home of the family that adopted her.
The tl;dr version - Every person in this woman's circle ended up having a miserable life.
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