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Post by carolinec on Mar 4, 2008 23:38:00 GMT
Just spotted this - The Bookseller's Oddest Book Titles Prize Shortlist: www.thebookseller.com/news/53656-oddest-book-titles-prize-shortlist-announced.htmlSome funny ones there, but when I saw this one, I thought of you guys!  I Was Tortured by the Pygmy Love Queen
By Jasper McCutcheon (The Nazca Plains Corporation)
This is a rare fictional entry for the Diagram Prize. The novel stars Captain Henry Mitchell, a US Navy fighter pilot who is forced to abandon his Grumman after battling Japanese Zeros over the Pacific. "Parachuting into rainforest canopy, Mitchell is greeted by a lost tribe of pygmies and their insanely cruel leader, a female; a Caucasian westerner like himself who subjects him to unholy tortures both painful and erotic . . . One strong man, stripped naked, bound and helpless, versus one female tyrant and her legion of little devils—who will win this battle?" Mr McCutcheon’s follow-up novel is just out: Go Ahead, Woman, Do Your Worst! Erotic Tales of Heroes Chained.There's one title which narrowly missed out on making the shortlist which I thought was quite appropriate to this board too: Drawing and Painting the UndeadThe mind boggles!   |
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Mar 5, 2008 0:05:11 GMT
I can only speak for myself here Carolinec but I would definitely be delving for the small change if I saw 'I Was Tortured by the Pygmy Love Queen' on a bookshelf.
You may well be on the way to what takes some women a lifetime: a faint inkling of the inner workings of us poor beings.
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Post by dem bones on Mar 5, 2008 9:40:21 GMT
what the ..... I Was Tortured by the Pygmy Love Queen ..... Go Ahead, Woman, Do Your Worst! Erotic Tales of Heroes Chained?
Bloody hell! Either Jasper McCutcheon is an entirely new literary menace or Franklin's been up to some hot nom de plume hi-jinks.
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Post by carolinec on Mar 5, 2008 10:12:06 GMT
You may well be on the way to what takes some women a lifetime: a faint inkling of the inner workings of us poor beings. You mean, I'm actually starting to understand men?! It did occur to me after I'd posted my original message that it would be terribly embarrassing (for me!) if the author was one of you lot. He isn't, is he? |
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Post by dem bones on Mar 5, 2008 10:59:13 GMT
Ah, but it's ALL of us, Caroline.  You see, every full moon, the initiated de-populate ----------- cemetery to converge on an address of unspeakable repute in a shunned district of -------, there to compile our very worst, most illiterate, ill punctuated and downright seedy posts into one disgusting document. This we later publish as a "novel" under a chilling house name. You will know us by out trail of hostile creepy crawlies, Virgins of the Undead and violent pygmy love queens. Muwaaaaahahaha! |
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Mar 5, 2008 12:51:20 GMT
That any one of us would deign to write such lurid nonsense is utterly beyond the pale ( low depraved chuckling stage left)
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Mar 5, 2008 14:34:35 GMT
But in all honesty I think carolinec, you have got a bit close.
Observe the small glue covered boy make loud noises with his toy vampire , paint his plastic werewolf with ghastly colours, drinking sweet coke, laughing cheerfully
Move swiftly down the years to observe the man with his computer joystick, sticking colour labels on his favourite pulp mag, beer mug in hand, laughing cheerfully.
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