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Post by andydecker on Jan 5, 2020 23:34:22 GMT
And with Brexit, British foreign policy will hopefully once again operate on these principles.
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Post by andydecker on Jan 5, 2020 23:41:24 GMT
First Sclater Street finds of the miserable decade just begun ... Bernhardt J. Hurwood - Monsters and Nightmares (Belmont, Feb. 1967) Isn't "graphically illustrated" a, what is the word, oxymoron? Or do the illustrations bare all? Drip blood and entrails?
The intricacies of foreign languages :-)
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Post by helrunar on Jan 6, 2020 2:43:40 GMT
Hi Andreas, yes, it is redundant. What it was intended to mean, I think, is that the illustrations were horrifically explicit. I think I may have owned this book in the early 70s but it's been so long since I last looked at it (circa 1975, and the book long since went the way of all flesh) that I barely recall--but I think the drawings were rather cartoonish, like the cover art of the book.
Best wishes,
Steve
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Post by Middoth on Jan 6, 2020 11:23:41 GMT
I'm dreamt about this books for years.
Joseph Payne Brennan, Donald M. Grant - Act of Providence (Donald M. Grant, 1979)
You know him
Pierre Kast - The Vampires of Alfama (W.H. Allen, 1976)
The 70th french oddity, translated also in german.
Hugh Zachary - Gwen, in Green (Fawcett Gold Medal, june,1974)
The 70th american oddity, never translated in any language, as far as I know, but still worth my attention.
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Post by kooshmeister on Jan 9, 2020 2:21:02 GMT
So what's the story with this gloriously silly cover? Is this "I've Fallen and I Can't Get Up!": The Novelization?
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Post by dem bones on Jan 20, 2020 17:23:27 GMT
Got lucky this morning with first Spitalfields Crypt charity shop (Aldgate chapter) find of the decade, a Jack the Ripper novel I read and much enjoyed as a library loan six (help!) years ago, namely Sarah Pinborough's Mayhem.
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Post by Dr Strange on Jan 20, 2020 18:04:55 GMT
Yes, I've read that too and remember enjoying it (though I remember nothing about the actual plot now). I've also read the sequel - Murder.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jan 20, 2020 18:22:40 GMT
I also read it and remember nothing. I started on MURDER, but did not get very far.
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Post by dem bones on Jan 20, 2020 18:49:00 GMT
Yes, I've read that too and remember enjoying it (though I remember nothing about the actual plot now). I've also read the sequel - Murder. I also read it and remember nothing. I started on MURDER, but did not get very far. Same with me, re Murder. Having enjoyed Mayhem so much, was anticipating another good time, but somehow couldn't get into it. N.B. I passed the Backchurch Lane corner of Pinchen Street (which features prominently in Mayhem), on way to, and returning home from the charity shop! Talk about supernatural! It's like The Omen is coming true and stuff.
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Post by andydecker on Jan 20, 2020 19:52:41 GMT
This is an adult novel? Looks like a YA.
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Post by Dr Strange on Jan 24, 2020 16:52:56 GMT
This is an adult novel? Looks like a YA. Yes, she has written some YA stuff but this is aimed at the adult market (whatever that is). As was Behind Her Eyes - which is apparently being turned into a Netflix miniseries (whatever that is).
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Post by dem bones on Feb 3, 2020 19:53:42 GMT
Had business up West this morning so, feeling masochistic, took a detour to the Hell on Earth that is the Forbidden Planet Megastore on Shaftsbury Avenue. Goes without saying that it is still as ghastly as ever, but fair's fair, there was at least one bargain to be had from the three-for-£1.99 clearance box .... Sax Rohmer - The Hand of Fu-Manchu (Titan, May 2012; originally Methuen, 1917 as The Si-Fan Mysteries) Blurb: London, 1913 - the era of Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, and the Invisible Man. A time of shadows, secret societies, and dens filled with opium addicts. Into this world comes the most fantastic emissary of evil society has ever known .... Fu-Manchu.
A sealed box and murder most foul call Sir Denis Nayland Smith and Dr. Petrie back from distant Egypt to the fog-enshrouded streets of London. There they discover that Fu-Manchu is an agent of a vast and deadly organisation - one which will stop at nothing to achieve its ruthless goals.
Afterword by Leslie S. Klinger (The New Annotated Sandman by Neil Gaiman) Sax Rohmer - The Bride of Fu-Manchu (Titan, June 2013; originally William Collins, 1931) Blurb: "imagine a person, tall, lean, and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespear and a face like Satan ..."
London, 1933 - the era of World War ll and global chaos. A time of shadows, secret societies, and dens filled with opium addicts. Into this world comes the most fantastic emissary of evil society has ever known .... Fu-Manchu.
A mysterious epidemic appears on the Riviera. When the French authorities call upon Dr. Petrie, his discoveries cause him to summon Sir Denis Nayland Smith. For their eternal foe, Fu-Manchu, is now trafficking in the deadliest form of biological warfare.
Afterword by Leslie S. Klinger (The Annotated Sandman by Neil Gaiman)Sax Rohmer - The Trail of Fu-Manchu (Titan, Sept 2013; originally William Collins, 1934) Blurb: London, 1934 - the era before World War II and global chaos. A time of shadows, secret societies, and dens filled with opium addicts. Into this world comes the most fantastic emissary of evil society has ever known .... Fu-Manchu.
Fu-Manchu is a hunted man, cut off from the Si_Fan and the elixir vitae that keeps him alive. The devil doctor kidnaps Dr. Petrie's beautiful daughter Fleurette, sending Petrie and Nayland Smith on a race against time through the maze of London, and beneath the River Thames.
Afterword by Leslie S. Klinger (The Annotated Sandman by Neil Gaiman)
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Post by helrunar on Feb 3, 2020 20:06:50 GMT
I remember both Bride and Trail as being among the better novels in the series. There is a kind of story arc that starts with Daugher and culminates in the action of these two. For some reason, when I read Trail in a 70s reprint of the 1960s Pyramid Books edition, it was missing the final chapter, but I had no inkling of that at the time.
I haven't re-read these as an adult so for all I know, they may simply be the usual Sax silliness. Hard to beat the price at which you acquired these three!
cheers, Steve
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Post by andydecker on Feb 4, 2020 15:41:53 GMT
I also thought to buy this edition. It looks nice. But I am not such a fan of the novels, and 13 books is a bit much.
Well, maybe this is a bit nitpicking, but the era of Sherlock Holmes and Dracula is the 1890s and not the eve of WWI.
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Post by helrunar on Feb 4, 2020 16:49:15 GMT
The best Fu novels were written in the 1930s. Rohmer had pared down his style and the plots are somewhat less episodic, though given that ALL the books were written and published as magazine serials (in Collier's in the US... I presume UK readers had to wait for the book publications), there's always an element of Act I, scene 2 in how the books are constructed.
Rohmer, like many people of the period, was anti-Semitic and seems to have had crudely racist ideas about people with dark skin, but actually revered modern Egyptians and Chinese, considering them the heirs to a vastly superior civilization.
Probably the greatest detraction for today's readers, apart from the racism, is his tendency to use Dr. Fu Manchu (or Sumuru, or whoever the latest super-villain is) as a mouthpiece for his own ideas about modern Western society.
I think the editions represented in Dem's amazing recent purchase may have been slightly "cleaned up" in terms of racist language and I was surprised to find some typos (possibly originating in scanning errors which failed to be corrected). Editors who are literate in English prose seem to have nearly gone the way of the dinosaur though I suppose there are still a few good ones left, here and there.
Steve
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