Title: Soft & Savage Puzzie McKill
Author: David Lynn
Cover artist: Uncredited (Robert Bonfils)
Estimated value: $20,000 (I made this figure up, but it feels right)
[Newest addition to the Doug Peterson Collection]
- Normally Doug brings me a small bagful of sleaze paperbacks whenever I see him at crossword puzzle tournaments. This time, he brought just one. The One.
- It only now (literally right now) occurs to me that "Puzzie" may be some ham-fisted way of attempting to conjure up "Pussy." Let me assure you, in a hotel lobby full of crossword puzzle enthusiasts, that association didn't land At All. I just figured that outdoor group BDSM was her *second* hobby.
- Her eyes, man. Her. Eyes. "When Irish eyes are BORING A HOLE IN YOUR JUNK!"
- One of the things that actually bothers me about this cover is that Cagey McRageface should really be able to slip out of that bamboo structure. He looks more like an angry go-go dancer than a captive sex whatever he is.
- To repeat, the title of this book is [deep breath] "Soft & Savage Puzzie McKill"—because "Puzzie McKill" would've been too ambiguous.
Best things about this back cover:
- Whoa oh here she comes! Watch out, boy, she'll cut you up. Whoa oh here she comes! She's a Manhater.
- "Mark Davidson" is not a name that can hang with Puzzie McKill. Doesn't quite evoke ... anything.
- Ew to "Trail of lust." Clean-up on aisle puzz.
Page 123~ (hold on to your hats)
A slow smile of malicious glee crept over Puzzie's face as she looked at Mark, her hands resting on top of the Killer's bald head as the man nudged and tugged about in the nest of golden fleece.
I felt like I had a handle on this sentence at the beginning, but then... things fall apart. Let's just say the "nest of golden fleece" is Exactly What You Think It Is. "Tugged about"? Not a verb phrase I'd want anywhere near my golden fleece.
~RP
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2 comments:
From the deranged gleam in her eye, and the glinting murder knife she's wielding, I thought "Pizzle" made more sense than Pussy. Pizzle McKill - gotta slash 'em all!
Is that an enraged Oompa Loompa in the impressively ornate bamboo cage in the background?
- Mr Iguana
Man, one your best.
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