Title: Dark Rapture
Author: Kim Darien
Cover artist: Uncredited
Condition: 7
Value: $10-12
[Another book from the recently acquired Larry D Collection]
Best things about this cover:
- "My left pinkie? Yeah, I broke that in a horrible bowling accident when I was a kid. Don't worry about it. Here, look at my right hand instead? Nice, right?"
- "Her? Nah, don't mind her, she's just the, uh, cleaning lady. Yeah, she likes to sleep on her smoke break. Does both at once. Sleep and smokes. Saves time."
- The blonde is the very definition of GGA (Great Girl Art), but it's like the painter was really more interested in directing your attention elsewhere—to the corny, chipper dude, yes, but most assuredly to the enigmatically sleep-smoking lady. Frankly, she is the only one whose story I care to know.
Best things about this back cover:
- This book hit me ... and it felt like a kiss.
- Love the visual [rrrrriiiiiipppp]
- "Simmy knew she'd had a tough break. First of all, she was named Simmy. Strike one ..."
- "Downright swell" and "heel"—the two masculinities
Page 123~
Back under the wheel, Jerry remarked that was the kind of service he liked; service with a smile, the kind you didn't come across too often in the city. "People out here show the customer some courtesy. Swell bunch out here in the sticks, none better." He backed the Buick out of the parking lot.
"Yeah, they got real manners out here in Shitville. Classy bunch of people. Really know how to treat a guy right. Might do all my grocery shopping out here from now on, babe, whaddya say?" Can't tell if this guy is "Downright swell" or more the "Heel" type. Really feels ... latter.
~RP
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3 comments:
I really can’t imagine how that finger is meant to work.
And sleepy girl appears to have zonked out halfway through her burrito.
Based on the guy's little finger, I think he's one of the Invaders. That's how Roy Thinnes spotted them, right?
The blonde is great. Her body language is so well done, the way she's sort of leaning away from the guy. The look on her face says, "I'm not really sure what's going on, but I don't like it." It's a look Teri Garr did really well. But where is her right arm?
Simmy and Starr from the last book should get together and start a girl group.
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