Feb 02
Bibliomancer Comments: Would you read this on a bus … late at night … riding through Compton?
Published 1980
(Average: 6.49 out of 10)
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Bibliomancer Comments: Would you read this on a bus … late at night … riding through Compton?
Published 1980
(Average: 6.49 out of 10)Loading...
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February 2nd, 2016 at 12:08 pm
‘Golem100, was worse, nasty as well as incoherent. Bester seemed to be haranguing his audience about the general evil of humanity and—a theme that had been much more tangential before—the war of the sexes.’–Arthur D. Hlavaty
To put it euphemistically, what you see is what you get.
February 2nd, 2016 at 12:08 pm
… so, basically the lyrics to ‘Brown Sugar’.
February 2nd, 2016 at 12:23 pm
Pity the poor lady who has to tell Mr. Trump he finished second!
February 2nd, 2016 at 1:05 pm
Alfred Bester’s Controversial Bestseller
ANACONDA
“She Shook Her Booty And Created A Worldwide Pop Phenomenon!”
February 2nd, 2016 at 1:06 pm
Dead Stuff, if I do a “Wassap?” pun here, do you promise not to hit me?
February 2nd, 2016 at 1:25 pm
It’s OK, it looks like his staple diet is broccoli.
February 2nd, 2016 at 1:35 pm
@AR: why, I ought to! 😉
February 2nd, 2016 at 1:40 pm
I
like
big
golems and I cannot lie
February 2nd, 2016 at 1:48 pm
A rare still from the abandoned Melvin Van Peebles ‘Gremlins III’
February 2nd, 2016 at 2:35 pm
Can’t find a kind review for this anywhere.
‘Synopsis: fifty pages of decent action driven sci fi/horror, and then 330 pages of diluted psychobabble and condensed dick jokes’
http://pulpaweek.blogspot.com/2010/04/golem100.html
But the basic plot sounds like it would have made for a great episode of the old ‘Kolchak’ TV show. Probably co-starring Zohra Lampert as the head demon summoner.
February 2nd, 2016 at 3:21 pm
“For the 100th time girl, this is how you do the Stomp.”
February 2nd, 2016 at 3:52 pm
Quentin Tarantino’s next grindhouse picture: a blacksploitation remake of Rawhead Rex.
February 2nd, 2016 at 4:44 pm
“Hey! Director! It says in my contract ‘No naked demon summoning’! Give me back my clothes!”
February 2nd, 2016 at 6:31 pm
Although the esteemed Dead Stuff With Big Teeth is no doubt better able to render judgement on this matter, seems to me like this monster’s going to have trouble closing his mouth, given the way these particular big teeth are situated.
Also closing his eyes, since he seems to have no eyelids.
February 2nd, 2016 at 7:35 pm
Compound eyes on flies have no eyelids.
February 2nd, 2016 at 8:24 pm
@Ray P—poetically put! But if this is supposed to be a fly, then we need a whole new thread of commentary.
February 2nd, 2016 at 10:09 pm
@BC, Ray: Perhaps, much like a fly, he eats by regurgitating his saliva all over his food? In which case, he wouldn’t need to close his mouth so much as lick up the digestive.
February 2nd, 2016 at 11:28 pm
@ Ray P: this is the blaxploitation remake of ‘The Fly’, entitled…..’Superfly’.
February 2nd, 2016 at 11:34 pm
@fred(10): “Can’t find a kind review for this anywhere.”
Unless you count Samuel R. Delany’s fairly positive cover quote “An elegant and exuberant performance”, though this choice of words implies Bester might have demonstrated the plot of the novel to him through interpretive dance.
February 3rd, 2016 at 1:23 am
@Noel #18 – Yes! Superfly meets Cleopatra Jones.
February 3rd, 2016 at 3:40 am
I read the title as Golem to the one hundredth power. That’s a lot of Golem!
…Yet once again a character is *not* looking in the logical direction. It’s like someone called to the lady in the foreground and she forgot all about the fly-eyed, web-handed aberration climbing out of the burning cityscape…
February 3rd, 2016 at 4:17 am
@HappyBookworm—I’m guessing some GSS denizen is lurking offcover and thinking, “If only I can get her to turn toward me, then I can annoyingly petition Tag Wizard for a Behind You tag.”
February 3rd, 2016 at 5:07 am
@HappyBookworm – Yes it is Golem to the hundredth power. Is that a googol of golems? I was too lazy to figure out how to type an exponent.
February 3rd, 2016 at 9:49 am
My immediate reaction to this was: Eww! what is squirting out of his eye!
on second inspection I realized it was just a worn crease… o_O
February 3rd, 2016 at 11:23 am
I’m glad that’s the golem’s knee we’re seeing.
Though the golem does try to pose, the upper arm muscles are fairly unimpressive.
February 3rd, 2016 at 11:52 am
While the fans mostly approved of the new “edgy” Bowser, the casting of a African American female as Mario was not so popular (until the producer announced she would be topless throughout the movie, at which point the fanboys acclaimed the casting as perfect).
February 4th, 2016 at 10:13 am
My golem don’t want none
unless you’ve got buns, hun!
February 4th, 2016 at 5:16 pm
A Golem at Hundredth power would have to be very, very far away.
Otherwise just how long has the lady being standing there ? its quite a sun tan .
November 16th, 2016 at 2:53 pm
I deeply regret that my comment at #3 has become tragically unfunny. That is all.
November 16th, 2016 at 3:37 pm
@DSWBT—ah, the poignancy, the hearkening back to a better, more innocent time. Now the cover morphs into a poor woman confronting a T-Shirt wearing yahoo screaming abuse, but it’s ok because the President said so. It’s to cry.
July 29th, 2022 at 5:19 pm
I read this as “Golem to the power of 100”
A golem googol. Or a googol golem.
Either way, she’s going to need backup.
Er, sorry for the unintended pun.