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Examples of [[{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]]s in [[{{SUBPAGENAME}}]] include:
* Prey by [[Michael Crichton]] definitely qualifies. One character utters five F-bombs in one ''sentence''.
* ''Nick And Norah's Infinite Playlist'' by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan. 245 uses, more or less.
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** This is lampshaded in ''[[IT]]'', where one of the characters notes that his author friend used the F word 206 times in his latest novel.
*** See also ''[[The Tommyknockers]]'', where he refers to himself as that fella who lives up Bangor way, and his books as being full of monsters and dirty words.
* Parodied in ''[[
** In the radio play and the US versions of the book, the award was for most gratuitous use of the word "Belgium", which is apparently [[Pardon My Klingon|an alien swear word]].
*** In at least one version of the radio play, "fuck" is left in but [[Watershed|(since it was intended for broadcast at 6.30 pm)]] [[Sound Effect Bleep|rendered utterly inaudible]] by a [[Space Is Noisy|starship engine.]]
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** Spoofed in ''[[
** Hilariously averted in ''[[
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'''Dorfl:''' {making timely interruption} Might I Offer A Comment? }}
* Explicitly averted in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', where Tolkien explains that evil creatures talk like this all the time, but [[Literary Agent Hypothesis|he cleaned it up]]:
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** [[Take That|Ouch!]]
* ''[[
* Dave Barry, in the introduction to his novel ''Tricky Business'', repeatedly warns the reader that "'''THIS BOOK CONTAINS BAD WORDS.'''" This paragraph can be found repeating continually through several of its chapters:
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* ''[[House of Leaves]]'', anyone? To quote Johnny Truant;
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* In the book ''[[Lamb: The Gospel According To Biff]]'' (a comedy about Jesus' best friend), the narrator is resurrected in our time to write his version of the Gospel. He also includes random comments on his bewilderment in the modern world, including a rant on curses, which lampshades this.
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** Pretty much any book by [[Christopher Moore]]. Pull one off the shelf, open it to any page, and you're guaranteed to see the word "fuck" at least once.
* ''[[Closing Time]]'', the sequel to Joseph Heller's ''[[Catch-22]]'', had this peppery exchange between Milo Minderbinder and the decidedly irreverent Ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen, regarding Yossarian's likely response to their schemes to defraud the United States government:
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'''Wintergreen:''' Then fuck him. Let him object. We'll ignore the fuck again. What the fuck! What the fuck fucking difference does it make if the fuck objects or not! We can ignore the fucking fuck again, can't we? Shit.
'''Milo:''' I wish you wouldn't swear so much in the nation's capital. }}
* In his college novel ''I Am Charlotte Simmons'', Tom Wolfe has a very hilarious discussion of what he calls the "fuck patois", frequently used by college students. It is all very clinical, analysing how the word can be used as adjective, noun, adverb, etc., providing an example for each, and then at the end of this very long list it concludes "And sometimes, it can even refer to copulation! (So, you'll never believe who I fuckin' walked in on fuckin'." The passage itself is very funny in that there is no vitriol behind any of the uses, and were it not for the variants of "fuck" given as examples after every type of word, it could be a regular old discussion of grammar. It is, in a word, AWESOME.
* The last joke in ''[[Isaac Asimov]]'s Treasury of Humor'' is a subversion of this trope. It's about a foul-mouthed soldier telling his friends what the fuck he did while out on the fuckin' town on a fuckin' 24-hour pass. {{spoiler|The punchline is that he uses the word "fuck" to describe everything EXCEPT sexual intercourse.}}
* Used liberally in ''[[
* In ''[[The City
* Any fucking Charles Bukowski book, often in caps making the statement seem bizarrely monotone and awkwardly hilarious.
* Janet Evanovich's ''[[Stephanie Plum]]'' books, anything said by Sally (Salvatore) Sweet. Example:
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I was pretty good at cussing, but I didn't think I could keep up with Sally. On my best day, I couldn't squeeze all those "f" words into a sentence. "Boy, you can really curse," I said.
"You can't be a fucking musician without fucking cursing." }}
* Precious in ''Push'' by Sapphire, though it's really more like Cluster B and S Bomb. Every woman she doesn't like is a bitch, and she replaces the word stuff with shit. The most extreme version is her calling her former principal "cunt bucket" all the time. May be justified, in that she is uneducated and doesn't know any better.
* From ''The Paranoid's Pocket Guide To [[Paranoia Fuel|Mental Disorders That You Can Just Feel Coming On]]'': The "Inner Monologue" for Intermittent Explosive Disorder, AKA Rage Disorder:
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* Used for laughs in the Maggody mysteries with Hammet Buchanon, who can barely open his mouth without swearing unless there's an immediate payoff for not doing so. The joke is that Hammet is about nine when introduced, and his siblings' language is even worse.
* The poem ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131027142329/http://www.cyberspike.com/clarke/chicktow.html Evidently Chickentown]'' by John Cooper Clarke is a prime example of the Cluster F Bomb, using the word 83 times throughout the poem (though in some versions, he tones it down by saying "bloody" instead).
* In the opening of ''A White Merc With Fins'' the narrator is trying to have a conversation with someone who has brought the F-word game into play, whereby every speaker must say Fuck more times than the previous one. In order to get the conversation back on track the narrator snaps:
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* [[Havemercy|Rook]] is the fucking king of the cluster F-bomb. According to a tally kept on the LJ comm, he says 'fuck' or some variation of the word 188 times. His most famous sentence is "Where the fuck is fucking Niall?", which is one third fucked.
** Lee Broglia has Rook beat; he really goes off once in literature, but it's a total doozy. The then-coach of the Cubs had taken the team from a crappy start to a struggling improvement, but the fans booed. He exploded into a scathing rebuttal with F and S bombs, an CS and a couple of [[M Fs]], all to a reporter, and he said "quote me" in advance. The cubs did much better after reading that, but Jay Johnstone, recapping it all in his autobiography on his baseball career, speculates that that rant pretty well torpedoed the coach's job. Maybe if he'd won the Series...
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* [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]] in [[The Subject Steve]]. There is a lot of swearing going on, but it's not intended to be cool or [[Darker and Edgier|gritty.]] It's quite casual and apathetic, like everything else in the book.
* Aleine Gunder IX from ''[[The Night Angel Trilogy]]''. Played for laughs. Poor Aleine or Niner as he is not so lovingly called by just about everyone, swears all the time. He's can actually be quite creative there's only one problem, the only swear he knows is the word shit. Due to this fact, and his childish nature he is prone to rant for several minutes. This is so much the case that when he starts cursing everyone in earshot just tunes him out. It doesn't help much that he's the king and therefore no one will swear in front of him. Then along comes resident badass Durzo.
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Durzo, "Your Majesty, a man of your stature's cursing vocabulary ought to extend beyond a tedious repetition of the excreta that fills the void between his ears." It wasn't until after Niner saw the looks on his guards faces that he realized he'd been insulted. }}
* [[The Dresden Files]] gives us this gem:
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* The ancient Roman poet Catullus, in his poem "Carmen 16", began with the line "[[Altum Videtur|Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo]]," which translates as, "I will fuck you in the ass and rape you in the face." It then gets '''''more''' obscene.''
* ''[[In Death]]'': A particularly impressive instance of this occurs in ''Treachery In Death'' [[Berserk Button|Turns out its a very bad idea to threaten Eve Dallas in front of her fellow cops.]]:
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Eve: [[Understatement|That was some very creative and varied use of the word ''fuck'', Detective.]]<br />
Jacobson: Fucker. On your fucking face, you fucking shit coward. Stream my Leutenant in the fucking back? Fuck you! }}
** He then proceeds break one of the man's fingers.
* In [[Kim Newman]]'s ''[[
* Children's book pastiche, "[[Go the Fuck
** But it's best when [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xtcB457jqQ narrated] by former [[Play School]] presenter Noni Hazlehurst
* In [[Spin|Vortex]], Allison/Treya has a bit of an epiphany, illustrating this trope in [[Inner Monologue]] form: "There it was, the heresy Treya had always resisted and for which the voice of Allison had silently begged: ''Fuck Vox'', fuck its quiet tyranny fuck its frozen dream religion, and fuck its craven obsession with the Hypotheticals. Fuck ''especially'' the madness that had brought Vox to this ruined Earth, and fuck the more profound madness I believed was about to break loose aboard her. ''Fuck Vox!''"
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