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| Mercifully short book claims to be true life encounters of author and wife with swingers; color me dubious. Unlike most books in this sub-genre, the encounters and participants come across as rather tawdry and unerotic, with more losers and scammers ...more | |
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| Originally published as by Curt Clark, this is a gawdawful sci-fi novel. Donald E. Westlake along with John D. MacDonald made a very public formal exit from the sci-fi genre in the 1950s, citing correctly they could make a lot more money writing crim ...more | |
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| Three lengthy Stuart Bailey PI short stories by Roy Huggins shoved together in a fix-up novel. Doesn't really work, the seams are too visible, the stories are standard PI fare. When Huggins created the TV show 77 Sunset Strip he named one of the char ...more | |
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| Standard mid-level sleaze pulp fiction. Standard story: Drifter drifts into town, seduces all the women, fights all the men, comes out on top. North's quality of writing is fair, but the story is nothing we haven't read before. ...more | |
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| As someone who came of age during the Vietnam War (drafted in 1972 but sent to Korea instead of Vietnam), this book was a heartbreaking read. LTC John Paul Vann was a competent conscientious military advisor in Vietnam during the earliest days of Ame ...more | |
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| Another unjustly overlooked writer today. Clark Ashton Smith was a writer / poet / artist who regularly appeared alongside H. P. Lovecraft and Robert Bloch in Weird Tales magazine. Smith wrote lyrical science fantasy of the dying Earth variety, and h ...more | |
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While not primo H. Allen Smith -- a sadly overlooked American humorist today -- Waikiki Beachnik remains an enjoyable read. Basically Smith financed a vacation to the then brand new state of Hawaii by telling his publisher he'd write a book on it; t ...more |
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| Gay Talese's classic examination of American sexuality is more of a historical document today, but a rather startling revelation of American sexual ethics when first published in 1981. It still packs its punch on a personal emotional level and Talese ...more | |
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| Fear That Man is one of the worst sci-fi novels I've ever read. I mean, we're talking Lionel Fanthorpe level quality here. Dean R. Koontz was a a fiction factory in his early years, writing -- although not particularly well -- in a variety of genres ...more | |
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| Lawrence Block slumming it in the sleazoid trenches early in his career. For the genre, this is a remarkably good book, focusing more on the characters' emotions and thoughts than the physicality of the activity. Faux-"true life" account. ...more | |
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| Horror Aficionados : Pseudopod for your short horror fiction needs! | 138 | 290 | Jul 15, 2019 10:53AM | |
| Horror Aficionados : Pseudopod | 508 | 1106 | Jul 15, 2019 10:58AM |
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