Title: The Shame Sell
Author: Alan Marshall (sometime pseudonym of Donald Westlake)
Cover artist: Uncredited
Yours for: $30
- "Gee, putting together this new life-model kit is a blast!"
- "So, you're telling me the cup goes ... like this ... and it keeps those things on the front of your chest from bouncing so much? Wow."
- Seriously, he's putting that bra *on* to that girl, and he's even doing *that* wrong.
- "I call this painting 'Drunk Girl Airs Out Her Pits.'"
- Actually, I would call this painting "How To Ruin a Perfectly Good Picture of a Naked Woman." 1. Add creepy man-child. 2. have her do something inexplicable with her arms while making stupid drunk-face. 3. Replace pubic area with scary, uniformly black patch. Boner averted!
Best things about this back cover:
- "Who could believe the truth?" I'm guessing Not Me.
- Ah, the ad game. Oh, so the guy on the cover must be Dan Drooper from AMC's "Sad Men."
- I hope the butterfly net is nonmetaphorical.
Page 123~
Jon sat back, rested his elbows on the arms of the swivel chair, tapped his fingers together, and eyed the ceiling. "C. F., the way I see it, it's time for you to escalate against Oona. The situation is peaking out, and so a certain accclimatizing seems to be in order."
Even the guy in the book replied, "A certain what?" Now if you'll pardon me, I have to go escalate against Oona ... *if* you know what I mean (do you? 'cause I don't)
~RP
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