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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scoutshouse, post: 1205067, member: 267&quot;]I posted something long ago about a relative who churned out unintentionally hilarious boy&#039;s adventure books, but couldn&#039;t remember his name. I&#039;d since uncovered some reviews of William Dixon Bell&#039;s books, which are every bit as entertaining as his books <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><i>To be straightforward about it, Bell is a chucklehead along the general lines of Ed Wood, Jr. and Arthur B. Reeve. He has not the vaguest notion of how people talk to one another, and even his narrative is sprinkled with wildly misused and misconceived language.</i></p><p><a href="https://web2.ph.utexas.edu/~coker2/Books/bell.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://web2.ph.utexas.edu/~coker2/Books/bell.html" rel="nofollow">utexas.edu</a></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Sacred Scimitar Review</i></p><p><i>The daring duo young male leads, the Hope brothers, seem to have something else going. &quot;Will smiled and pressed Dave&#039;s hand affectionately. These two were more than brothers, more than twins&quot; is on page one. And not much later in the book is this interesting narration: &quot;When Dave got a little excited he called his twin brother &#039;Big Boy.&#039; This was in the nature of an ejaculation.&quot;</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Obviously, if you&#039;re writing for a juvenile you don&#039;t exactly have to be Vladimir Nabokov, but it helps if you can at least come across as more competent than the readership. Dixon Bell failed to do that so spectacularly, I actually enjoyed his cretinous attempt, like watching one of those ridiculous Doug McClure dinosaur movies. <i>Yeah, they were fun.</i></i></p><p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3154097.William_Dixon_Bell" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3154097.William_Dixon_Bell" rel="nofollow">goodreads</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I gave the books I had to a younger cousin... Been afraid to ask what happened to them...</p><p><br /></p><p>After about 40 years of conservatorship (HOARDER), our elderly cousin passed and the contents of her vault - what&#039;s left of it - were finally unveiled to three of her local relatives. BIG surprise! I found an incredible trove of his original manuscripts in their own wooden file drawers! And many copies of his classic, Moon Colony. All dried out and acidified.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]214112[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]214111[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Even funnier, I came across a family album with a lot of great info on her kin. Someone pasted in <i>yet another</i> bemused review, upper left on the page below: &quot;Arizona Criticism&quot;!!</p><p><br /></p><p>That is his son, Dixon Tucker Bell, in the ad.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]214113[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Any advice on what to do with all this? I think donate it, but it should be appraised. It&#039;s all tied up in a probate with distant relatives. It&#039;s so cool to find it all intact, even in this condition.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;They cannot be more idiosyncratic than Tom Swifties, she said positively.&quot; said [USER=103]@silverthwait[/USER]&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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