tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660994103025515363.post7521822133714630120..comments2024-02-14T03:20:23.057-08:00Comments on Pop Sensation: Paperback 84: Nobody Lives Forever / W.R. Burnett (Bantam 888)Rex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660994103025515363.post-20809029708880233892008-04-22T22:31:00.000-07:002008-04-22T22:31:00.000-07:00This may be my single favorite cover so far. Its j...This may be my single favorite cover so far. Its just so perfectly....everything. Simply great.<BR/><BR/>I also immediately thought of James Cagney for the guy in the brown suit. The guy in the back kind of looks like Phillip Seymour Hoffman.<BR/><BR/>The new 123 feature is amazing. I was actually going to leave a comment about wanting to get a taste for the insides of these books, and you seemingly read my mind. Good show, sir, good show.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660994103025515363.post-68632576213637160092008-04-22T16:39:00.000-07:002008-04-22T16:39:00.000-07:00I'm already loving the Page 123 feature. And spec...I'm already loving the Page 123 feature. And specifically, I'm enjoying the idea that those boarding-school (a hyphen!) girls are always up and eloping to Mexico with strange men. They were pretty swinging, those boarding schools of the mid century.<BR/><BR/>The guy on the cover, with his arm in that strange pose, looks like a dissipated version of the dude on the old Soviet anti-drinking poster: http://www.sovlit.com/pics/no_vodka_54.jpgMichael5000https://www.blogger.com/profile/10148584819327475239noreply@blogger.com