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Re:The Cathedral and the Bizarre by thaumasiotes on Saturday December 14, 2019 @08:04PM (#21793660)
Naked Came the Stranger was written, not just produced, by a herd, to massive success. (It was intended to fail, and the herd writing was an element of that intention, but none of that stopped it from experiencing massive success.)
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Re:The Cathedral and the Bizarre by 0xcde4c3db on Saturday December 14, 2019 @08:43PM (#21793870)
See also: Atlanta Nights, another sort of "successful failure" group-written project meant to demonstrate that an alleged "publisher" was really a vanity press with no actual standards or editorial process. You can now buy the book via various links from the official website of the "author" [1], but in case you're in need of a few giggles right this minute, the submitted manuscript was also released by one of the conspirators [2].

[1] http://www.travistea.com/

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20050305143929/http://www.cs.du....

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Re:The Cathedral and the Bizarre by saagarjha on Sunday December 15, 2019 @03:47AM (#21795200)
Is that…all? It says 71,503 words at the top but I only see a hundred…
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Re:The Cathedral and the Bizarre by 0xcde4c3db on Sunday December 15, 2019 @11:00AM (#21796832)
It's readable (y'know, technically) for me in Firefox 71. Maybe there's something weird about the PDF?
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