Showing posts with label purple. Show all posts
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Friday, May 5, 2017

Paperback 990: Sugar Shannon / Adam Knight (Belmont Books 217)

Paperback 990: Belmont 217 (PBO, 1960)

Title: Sugar Shannon
Author: Adam Knight
Cover artist: Uncredited

Condition: 9/10
Estimated value: $20

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Best things about this cover:
  • I love this cover. Mostly I love that it's so ****ing purple, and then that the title is yellow and oddly placed. I also love her big, calmly intense eyes, and the way she cradles that gun lovingly between her breasts. Either this is a next-level sexy role-playing scenario, or someone is gonna get very murdered.
  • I know when I go to rendezvous (-vouses?), my preferred method of travel is drifting.
  • Series!? Here's the other Adam Knight book in the Pop Sensation archives—throwback! (2007).

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Best things about this back cover:
  • Scorching yellow!
  • Tiny Shannon. That is a weird use of the front cover image.
  • Wow, this passage and synopsis tell us ... nothing. It's boiler-plate, bot-written cover copy.

Page 123~

Serena's flat was a paradox. It screamed mediocrity, it stank of the buckeye in art and upholstery.

Don't know what it means, don't care what it means—but "it stank of the buckeye" is my new go-to judgment phrase.

~RP

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