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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Apr 9, 2024 19:52:14 GMT
I confess I am intrigued, especially once I got to the phrase "power bottom Frankenstein" whilst reading the blurb. Frankenstein is the doctor, you know, not the monster.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Apr 9, 2024 9:25:15 GMT
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Apr 8, 2024 18:35:22 GMT
Thanks! Can't wait to read it! Smith seems to have nearly vanished from the market; some novels I haven't seen offered online for years. And they're annoyingly expensive, too. There are plenty of ebooks.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Apr 2, 2024 18:33:13 GMT
Dear "cauldronbrewer": Some years ago, information you posted on this board allowed me to identify you. I found out we seemed to have some research interests in common. As I was organizing a series of small international conferences on a certain topic, I started toying with the idea of inviting you to one of them. You would think you were there because of your prominence in the field, but in reality it would be all about the Vault. I tried to imagine your reaction once I revealed the truth to you. Or perhaps it would be even better never to reveal it at all, and simply privately enjoy how my machinations caused the world to work quite differently from how everyone else imagined. But of course I never carried out this plan; it would, after all, have been insane. Or did I? Or will I? How can you know? Yours, Jojo Lapin X This now reads to me like something from Jerzy Kosinski's first "novel," STEPS, which I recently reread.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Apr 1, 2024 20:12:10 GMT
Oh, and CRASH, the novel, inspired The Normal's "Warm Leatherette," later ingeniously covered by Grace Jones on an album that changed the world of music forever. CRASH, the novel, is just one of those one-of-a-kind phenomena. Like Brian D'Amato's BEAUTY, another novel I found totally absorbing back in the day and am now afraid of revisiting. As it happens, I recently reread BEAUTY, and it is still utterly brilliant. Recommended.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Apr 1, 2024 18:47:29 GMT
It may have been. It was a plain black background and the arm was emerging from it. Sorry, no idea.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Mar 29, 2024 13:47:29 GMT
The file where the title is in all lowercase appears to be correct, the one with every title word capitalized has the red font. Thanks!
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Mar 28, 2024 20:50:49 GMT
Or, there is already a version with the font color fixed out there if you want to check some of the usual places. I find three at Library Genesis. Which, if any, are corrected?
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Mar 27, 2024 20:09:32 GMT
How horrible. Maybe you can change that? No, the Kindle Android app does not allow you to do that. I also have one of those. On it, the red text shows up as an unreadable rasterized representation of pale gray.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Mar 27, 2024 18:53:50 GMT
Phil Baker’s masterful biography The Devil is a Gentleman: The Life and Times of Dennis Wheatley I acquired the somewhat expensive Kindle edition of this, only to find the text is in red. I am not sure I can read that.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Mar 24, 2024 17:34:56 GMT
I read the first original novel of Death in Paradise last year, written by Robert Thorogood, the creator of the series. I read it when it was first published. If I remember correctly, at one point Poole considers killing Harry the lizard, which struck me as weirdly out of character.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Mar 23, 2024 18:00:38 GMT
Season 2 of BEYOND PARADISE, the intensely soporific DEATH IN PARADISE spinoff, has started. Frankly I cannot explain why I watch this.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Mar 20, 2024 18:35:26 GMT
What is the deal with Rosalind Ashe? She is not in print. There are no ebooks---not even pirated ones. I remember reading several of her novels with pleasure, in particular THE HURRICANE WAKE.
Somebody on Goodreads with the user name "Thomas Hale" says she was his grandmother. So, "Thomas Hale," if you see this, and have happened to inherit the rights, give us some ebooks.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Mar 19, 2024 18:02:53 GMT
Derek @ Wordsworth was wondering about the possibility of getting some of our Mystery & Supernatural titles back out there in the form of eBook as there have been a few that we've had to stop printing due to poor sales. I wondered if there would be demand for these? Possibly, but you would be competing with outfits like Delphi Classics who offer the complete works, not just single titles, of out-of-copyright authors for next to nothing. I mean this to be encouraging.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Mar 11, 2024 19:30:21 GMT
It gets more bland every year with the ever changing cast. I was going to say that Don Warrington has been in every episode of the show, closely followed by Élizabeth Bourgine. But according to IMDb, the latter has been in 84 episodes, the former only 80. Still, I would say they are both fairly well-established by now.
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