To be able to say "Noggle," you first must be able to say "Nah."
Joe Kenney reads a Death Merchant book forty years after acquiring it. And trying to read it for the first time. You know, I’m not a fan of that series either; I read one in in 2012 and not another. But I’m not as dedicated to men’s adventures and contemporaneous paperback originals as Kenney is. […]
I read Kung Fu: The Way of the Dragon; I read Kung Fu #2: Chains; I read Kung Fu #3: Superstition. So it would make sense for me to pick up this book, Kung Fu #4, ainna? Oh, but no: The first were tied into the David Carradine television series, as demonstrated by his picture […]
I mentioned that I learned about the It’s a Mystery BookStore in Berryville, Arkansas, in April when I was looking for a road trip destination and almost almost made the big mistake of going which would have triggered a Wuhan flu celebratory quarantine for my youngest since going thirty minutes into Arkansas was more dangerous […]
I know, I know; you saw my post about albums I bought this weekend, and you said, Who cares about the cheap, obscure easy listening records you buy in an attempt to find something of yours on Lileks’ Thrift Store Vinyl feature on Fridays?. Well, my bibliophile friend, it’s your turn to feast your eyes […]
You might be asking yourself, “Self, did Brian J. get this book because of its lurid cover?” Well, not just because of its lurid cover; I found it mentioned on some blog I read (I forget which one), and I found the back of the book material interesting: Lily loves movies–especially the bloody ones. They […]
There’s generally a tip-off that an Executioner book is going to be sub-par for the series: Mack Bolan lights a cigarette. Bolan doesn’t generally smoke throughout the Pendleton books and into the New War period; if one of the house authors has him lighting a cigarette (see also Return to Vietnam), you can assume the […]
When I was looking for a paperback to read, I found this book on my shelves and thought, “Is that the William Johnston?” Which pretty much ensures I’m the only one to ask that question in the last 25 years, or maybe ever. This is a 1971 novel based on the television show The Mod […]
This book is the 7th entry in the Death Merchant series. Every once in a while, I like to wander away from the Executioner series and the SOBs series to see if I might be missing out on any other good pulp paperback series from the seventies and eighties. And, brothers and sisters, this book […]