NNNNN by Carl Reiner

Carl Reiner will always be Alan Brady to me, the man who made Robert Petrie’s life so difficult on the Dick Van Dyke Show.  The fact that Carl Reiner’s glory days were about fifty  years before he wrote NNNNN gives hope to all of us poor schmucks who still want to be novelists one of these days. NNNNN is possibly the worst title ever given to a book, though Carl seems to think it ranks up their with M.  To me it was too much like a Marx Brothers routine, you left out an N-and the most important one, too!…

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