Paperback 1125: Domino Books 72-712 (PBO, 1964)
Title: The Passion Hunters
Author: Orrie Hitt
Cover artist: Uncredited
Condition: 4-5/10
Value: $10
[Chapter 2 Books, Winona, MN (July 2025)]
- Gee, your nose smells terrific!
- "Kissing's when I talk into your nose, right?"
- She's gonna have to open her eyes if she ever wants their faces to line up properly
- It looks like it's raining exclusively in her bed and on his shirt, with some kind of green aurora borealis in the background
- I keep quickly glancing at the cover copy and seeing the phrase "mouth-open season," which, given the picture, seems right
Best things about this back cover:
- Fair game! It's a pun! Because they are pretty ("fair") and you hunt them. Or else they are a game you play at a carnival booth, like the ring toss. He does seem to be trying to bend her body into some kind of shape, perhaps in order to win a giant stuffed animal. "I thought you liked me, Brad. What about that embrace at the carnival booth?" "I was just trying to bend you into a knot so I could win that panda!"
- I am shocked, shocked, I say, to find that this Orrie Hitt book doesn't seem to have much of a plot. He's going deer-hunting. But he wants sex and money. But he'll settle for sex. Hitt me!
- "A trio of torrid temptresses!" Somewhere, there's a dyad of dumpy dames going "Hey, what about us!?"
Page 123~
Getting over the beaver channels was the worst, and before I cleared the swamp I didn't have to continue worrying about dropping him. He was already dead, the knife still in his belly, and from there on down the mountain I was an undertaker without a license.
OK, technically this is from p. 122, but once I saw the phrase "Getting over the beaver channels," there was no turning back. You understand.
~RP
3 comments:
That is the most awkward kiss I've ever seen. A couple of twelve-year-olds who've never seen anything racier than a G-rated movie wouldn't be having the problems these two are.
And why is his shirt fuzzy?
Also, a hunting trip to an isolated cabin sure sounds like the novel is going to be "frank," not full of horny women.
Speaking of Pandas, Mr. Hitt also wrote Panda Bear Passion (1968.)
According to Wiki this one had a change in titles:The Passion Hunters (1964, 1966 as This Wild Desire)
"Wilma, face it, you're addicted to the smell of Listerine! There's no shame in comin' clean! Like my breath!"
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