I think this version has a few minutes edited out of it, but the quality of picture and sound is pretty good, although some of it sounds dubbed. The opening six minutes are superb.
Gothic romance was a popular sub-genre in days gone by, the covers were usually of a young lady running from a creepy old mansion or a variance on that theme.
Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
I just have to ask, CHB, based on the content of this thread: Have you ever read a book that's well reviewed by critics and gets taught at universities or are that kind of books beneath you? 😁😃
😁 Not beneath me, but I find most well reviewed books boring. I suppose the only ones I like that may be considered classics are A Christmas Carol, Lost Horizon and Nineteen Eighty-Four. I’m just a simple soul educated at a comprehensive school, only interested in English, History and Geography, and oh, playing for the football team because all the pretty girls wanted to go out with the players 😂
I read Stephen King, Jeffrey Archer, Lee Child, James Herbert, Ian Fleming (obviously) and Leslie Thomas amongst others, whether any of these are considered well reviewed, I don’t know. Otherwise my reading mainly consists of old pulp paperbacks and some autobiographies. I like the pulps best, it made me a decent living, so I don’t care what arty farty critics say!
Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
But ..... but that's the whole business model of opera, classical music and books that win the Nobel prize! That's how you impress and get to know people you don't want to barbecue with or spend time with unless people see you do it. The whole fabric of posh society will crumble! 😭
can anybody guess how are the elements in the pictures related to the stories?
its been a long time since I read most of these so all I got is The Big Sleep: General Sternwood's wheelchair and the orchids from his greenhouse, where Marlowe first meets him
and the lady in the Lady in the Lake does look like she's been dragged from the water, but cant guess what the other three represent
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Good to see Max the Parrot turn up in Playback as well. He certainly gets around. 🦜
"The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
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I think this version has a few minutes edited out of it, but the quality of picture and sound is pretty good, although some of it sounds dubbed. The opening six minutes are superb.
@chrisno1 Thank you!! I will watch this tonight 😁
Agatha Christie and Pan book covers - it doesn’t come much better than that…
I love those Pan illustrated soft covers, a real touch of class.
Gothic romance was a popular sub-genre in days gone by, the covers were usually of a young lady running from a creepy old mansion or a variance on that theme.
They look like they might have made good films!
I just have to ask, CHB, based on the content of this thread: Have you ever read a book that's well reviewed by critics and gets taught at universities or are that kind of books beneath you? 😁😃
😁 Not beneath me, but I find most well reviewed books boring. I suppose the only ones I like that may be considered classics are A Christmas Carol, Lost Horizon and Nineteen Eighty-Four. I’m just a simple soul educated at a comprehensive school, only interested in English, History and Geography, and oh, playing for the football team because all the pretty girls wanted to go out with the players 😂
I read Stephen King, Jeffrey Archer, Lee Child, James Herbert, Ian Fleming (obviously) and Leslie Thomas amongst others, whether any of these are considered well reviewed, I don’t know. Otherwise my reading mainly consists of old pulp paperbacks and some autobiographies. I like the pulps best, it made me a decent living, so I don’t care what arty farty critics say!
+1. Keep doing your thing!
No, you should start reading books that bore you to impress people you don't like! 😁
I ignore people I don’t like…(shuts down iPad).
But ..... but that's the whole business model of opera, classical music and books that win the Nobel prize! That's how you impress and get to know people you don't want to barbecue with or spend time with unless people see you do it. The whole fabric of posh society will crumble! 😭
😁 I had enough of reading books I didn't like at school, etc. Now I read for pleasure.
Yes, but some have a stranger sense of pleasure than others. 😁
Yes, well….you probably eat reindeer testicles too…so your reading material is a given 🤣
No, only normal stuff like smalahove. 😋
N24’s books…
CHB’s books…
Which two are you gonna read? 😉
I’m heading over to yours, CHB 🤣
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Here’s some more Hank Janson covers…
From the covers it appears that Hank Janson was a UK version of Mickey Spillane, would that be right? I have read some Spillane but no Janson.
Oh, yes, he was definitely in the Spillane mould, and I recommend the books, they are rather good!
This is how American publishers handled Hank Janson…
These Raymond Chandler Pan paperbacks from late 70’s and early 80’s are rather nice…
That they are, and not clichéd.
I've never seen these editions of Chandler before
can anybody guess how are the elements in the pictures related to the stories?
its been a long time since I read most of these so all I got is The Big Sleep: General Sternwood's wheelchair and the orchids from his greenhouse, where Marlowe first meets him
and the lady in the Lady in the Lake does look like she's been dragged from the water, but cant guess what the other three represent
Good to see Max the Parrot turn up in Playback as well. He certainly gets around. 🦜
@caractacus potts The cover of "Killer In The Rain" shows Dravec, the client from the title story which was one of the elements of "The Big Sleep".
It's been a while since I read "The High Window", can't remember what people were wearing.
There is a parrot in "Playback" and IIRC it only speaks in Spanish. No, it doesn't say "ATAC to St Cyril's" in either English or Spanish.
The reason these sort of pulps flew off the shelves don’t need to be explained 😁