Showing posts with label Adam Calin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Adam Calin. Show all posts

Friday, July 17, 2009

Paperback 258: Perverted Love Slave / Adam Calin (Royal Line 127)

Paperback 258: Royal Line RL 127 (PBO, 1966)

Title: Perverted Love Slave
Author: Adam Calin
Cover artist: in witness protection

Yours for: Unavailable


Best things about this cover:
  • Worst. Alarm Clock. Ever. "Alright, alright, I'm up ... dang!"
  • "In this house we wear bras and *only* bras! No [crack!] bracelets! [crack!]"
  • The lady in the bed is, uh, hot. The lady with the whip is, uh, not. She's pasty and misshapen and has one of the Fry Guys on her head.
  • Debbie was distracted from her dominatrix duties when she suddenly noticed a mysterious, massive dollop of lemon frosting at the foot of the bed.
  • "She was a lust slave to his every depraved desire" — "his?" Wow, "he" managed to get himself a superior boob job.

Best things about this back cover:

  • This feels like it was translated from the Bulgarian in some horrible translating forced labor camp.
  • I mean, how am I supposed to do my job? This thing is self-parodic.
  • I like how that first paragraph appears to be someone writing out loud, in real time. Stop transcribing every thought you have!
  • Misspelling "Jekyll" helps them avoid messy fictional defamation lawsuits.
  • "Shame Whims" made me literally LOL.
  • My god, the font size, the spacing ... it's all so off, so wrong, so tawdry — the cover copy equivalent of a snuff film.

Page 123~

"I mentioned you to Mrs. Tomane. She's interested in writing. She would like to meet you, since you're writing a novel that has a chance to be published."

"Who told you that?"

~RP