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Post by franklinmarsh on Jan 8, 2013 8:18:08 GMT
In a bizarre flashback to 1975, my mum gave me a W H Smith & Son voucher for Christmas. I hastened to my local branch because I knew they had Kim Newman's Dracula Cha Cha Cha and James Herbert's The Secret Of Crickley Hall - result - I got both in a buy-one-get-one-half-price deal and the Crickley Hall was a TV tie in edition with Suranne Jones looking frightened on the cover. The offer meant that I'd spent less than half my allocation. A trip to a nearby branch also netted The Mammoth Book Of Slasher Movies. It's ages since I'd bought a new book, and I had to glance over the shelves to see what was popular. I remember (vaguely ) the Andy McNab and Real Hard Men waves of recent years, and now it seems that the Tragic Life Stories genre kick-started by the succes of Dave Pelzer's A Child Called It (and it's subsequent sequels) has now been supplanted by hordes of 50 Shades Of Grey imitators, one completely failing the subtlety test by calling itself Diary Of A Submissive or somesuch...erm...not that I've read any of these. Good to know certain publishers have teams of hacks who can churn out coattail riders quickly when required. Good heavens, it IS 1975.
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Post by andydecker on Jan 8, 2013 10:32:40 GMT
Good heavens, it IS 1975. If you are into American comics, it is the 90s again. I guess the book market is better off  |
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Post by dem bones on Jan 8, 2013 13:31:23 GMT
Seems more like 1981 to me, FM, minus even the consolation of Martian Dance at the apex of their powers. Then again, the whole E. L. James Fifty Shades industry is very late-eighties/ early-nineties, when a copy of Skin 2 or Fetish Times was every groovy Goth girl's number one fashion accessory, regardless of whether they were S&M enthusiasts or otherwise (otherwise, I strongly suspect, in vast majority of cases). Has Gregory Pendennis any plans in this direction? It's glaringly apparent these frustrated floozies are crying out for a damn good "rogering" and he's not let the side down yet.
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Post by franklinmarsh on Jan 8, 2013 16:23:51 GMT
Funny you should mention that Dem. I smuggled some Moet and Remy Martin miniatures in to the old rogue at the rest home, and he'd been churning out hordes of cash-ins, all many years too late, and merely grunted that he thought 50 Shades Of Grey was a Grecian 2000 advertisement. Do you think any publishers would be interested in CHAV! by Allen Dickens, WOODLOUSE! by Guy N Hutson, DONNER UND BLITZEN by Fritz Stollen, HACKBLOODGORE by Ricardo Staynzini, ADMISSIONS OF A TRAFFIC WARDEN (I had to correct this from GPs original EMISSIONS.. Euw!) by Tabitha Leeway or RONALD REAGAN, WEREWOLF KILLER by Walter Hackiam?
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