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Post by hugegadjit on Jan 14, 2021 20:15:41 GMT
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Post by andydecker on Jan 15, 2021 9:33:53 GMT
John Boorman with Bill Stair: Zardoz (Pan Books, 1974, 130 pages)
In all its glory.
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Post by tlawrence on Sept 21, 2021 2:20:29 GMT
OMG, I saw this paperback in the USA when the movie was first released! I was at a public swimming pool when three bikini-clad young women strolled by, each with the book in their hands. One of them accidentally left her copy by the concession stand, which gave me a chance to look at the novel. All I knew about the movie was that it was "futuristic", had the James Bond guy in it, and was hated by the New York Times. My teen-aged self flipped through the book and came upon a photo inset in the center of the book (may novelizations were published that way back in those dark days). What did I find? A photo of Connery on top of a woman with a caption describing how he was in the process of raping a slave (or some-such).
I tossed the book back in disgust.
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Post by helrunar on Sept 21, 2021 2:30:11 GMT
By an odd coincidence, this morning I found my missing copy of the Zardoz paperback. It had gotten shoved behind some Sax Rohmer paperbacks on a shelf.
The film is a firm favorite here.
H.
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Post by andydecker on Sept 21, 2021 10:11:41 GMT
OMG, I saw this paperback in the USA when the movie was first released! I was at a public swimming pool when three bikini-clad young women strolled by, each with the book in their hands. One of them accidentally left her copy by the concession stand, which gave me a chance to look at the novel. All I knew about the movie was that it was "futuristic", had the James Bond guy in it, and was hated by the New York Times. My teen-aged self flipped through the book and came upon a photo inset in the center of the book (may novelizations were published that way back in those dark days). What did I find? A photo of Connery on top of a woman with a caption describing how he was in the process of raping a slave (or some-such).
I tossed the book back in disgust.
Interesting. This British edition has no movie stills. A pity.
I re-watched the movie recently. It definetly bit off more than it could chew, a lot of the SF is terrible, but some of its topics have become relevant again. Many of its grand conceptional ideas didn't materialize on the screen, but at least they were ideas. And I have a lot of respect for Sean Connery to try to re-invent himself after Bond.
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