Title: Love in a Goldfish Bowl
Author: Jack Sher
Cover artist: one very confused photographer
Yours for: $8
Best things about this cover:
- The dog. By far, the dog. The dog is looking to us for help.
- This cover would actually be beautiful if you just replaced the photo with ... well, anything. Title font design is gorgeous.
- I know a Jack Sher. Hey, Jack, you wrote a book ... many years before you were born. Congratulations. [my friend's real name is Jack Shear, so this is funny only to me and possibly him]
- This photo = rejected Alpo campaign still #178
- What ... I ... just what the hell is supposed to be happening here? Why is she ... what is that ... what's in the ... why are they ...?
- "Gee, Blythe, where'd ya get the giant snail, and why are you keepin' him in a goldfish bowl on your belly out here on the beach?"
- This cover is the reason words like "camp," "queer," and "ambiguously gay duo" were invented.
Best things about this back cover:
- "SNAFuglugluglug..."
- SNAFU = Situation Normal: All Fucked Up. A most apt description of the front cover.
- How come nobody's named "Gordon" any more?
- The last two paragraphs are so ambiguous that they allow me to imagine that the people pictured end up addicted to heroin and turning tricks ... in Balboa.
- "It was the bending end" - that's what she said!
Page 123~
"Gordon, where are you going?" my foolish, fuzzy mother asked.
"I think I'll sleep on my boat," I said.
"You'll do nothing of the kind!" she said.
So there I was, stuck with Holloway for the night.
~RP
4 comments:
I didn't even get to the write up before I started laughing. Whoever conceived that shot has some serious issues to work out.
"A snafu to end all snafus"? Is a snafu enough of a legitimate thing that they can be ranked like that?
Its hard to tell if its going to end up being a crazy threesome type deal or a precursor to Weekend at Bernies (which was my first thought when I saw the cover, but their smiles seemed out of place)
Is that where they got the idea for doing up sushi on a hot model?
Erm...well, maybe not.
I submit, for your pleasure, the end of the one-paragraph NYT review of the 1961 film that inspired this little knockoff:
"...this Paramount pancake has a theme song called "You're Only Young Once." After seeing this film, one should be glad of it."
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