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Good Show Sir Comments: Sooo Mandy, going on holiday this summer?
Published 1974
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(Average: 7.89 out of 10)
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Good Show Sir Comments: Sooo Mandy, going on holiday this summer?
Published 1974
Many thanks to Perry!
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June 6th, 2016 at 10:36 am
So that’s what The Lady in the Lake looks like!
Nice trick. Kind of like pulling a rabbit out of a hat.
June 6th, 2016 at 10:50 am
“Nitty Norman the Head Explorer” doesn’t quite have the same ring to it.
June 6th, 2016 at 11:15 am
@BM: thanks a lot, mister! Now, I can’t help but imagine her showing her udders and saying, ‘Now here’s something you’ll REALLY enjoy!’ in the voice of Rocky the Flying Squirrel.
June 6th, 2016 at 11:17 am
An unexplained cosmic “blink” splits humanity along gender lines into two divergent timelines: from the men’s perspective, all the women disappear and from the women’s, all men vanish. Colour me startled, then.
June 6th, 2016 at 11:47 am
£5.50! For a tatty second hand copy? Fuck right off.
June 6th, 2016 at 2:37 pm
If I didn’t know better, I’d suspect this was a sequel to ‘The Day the Worm Turned’ by Gerald Wylie.
June 6th, 2016 at 2:56 pm
How can she stand erect when everything below the waters surface is nothing but bones. X-ray water? Unfathomable metaphorical mumbo jumbo? A Star Trekian interdimensional rift? Bad plot device?
June 6th, 2016 at 3:54 pm
I call “font problems” here. No blurb should be allowed to have a font size larger than the book title.
June 6th, 2016 at 7:01 pm
Like the label on a bottle of far-eastern shampoo.
June 6th, 2016 at 8:03 pm
So the book is “startling” because Our Heroine has a sky-god as her personal hairdresser. Or does it have something to do with the sky-eyes behind him?
June 7th, 2016 at 3:47 am
@Bibliomancer – I agree. I thought for a moment that the book was called “The World’s Most Startling Novel.” First of all, it would take a lot of hubris to name one’s book “the most [any adjective] novel in the world.” Second of all, readers wouldn’t know what it was was about…not sure that’s clear anyway…
June 7th, 2016 at 4:12 am
“Now, hold very still. You’ll love this trick. It’ll feel just like I’ve broken an egg on your head and the yolk is slowly oozing through your hair. Great party act!”
June 7th, 2016 at 4:43 am
This cover gives off a similar ‘Health Spa’ vibe as did Brian Aldiss’ ‘The Primal Urge’: http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=11186
@Jonathan Oliver: price is in Aussie dollars which are approx. half UK£, but still seems steep given condition of the book.
June 7th, 2016 at 9:40 am
Ah, fair enough. Still, though…
June 11th, 2016 at 5:52 pm
@fred: She’s standing on the turtles.
June 11th, 2016 at 8:07 pm
How the Heimlich Manoeuvre works in Perelandra.
May 6th, 2017 at 6:01 pm
@fred: water with an unhealthy amount of caesium-137 in it might explain the bones and colour: either the Cherenkov radiation or ferricyanide to clean up the mess.
June 12th, 2020 at 8:50 am
Women without men are naught but skeletons waiting to emerge? Or something.
@Dead Stuff @4: sperm banks have been a thing since 1965. Did all the little sperms end up in the men’s world as well?
June 12th, 2020 at 10:28 am
Strange dreams when you miss getting your hair cut under Lockdown.
June 12th, 2020 at 10:36 am
Not knowing how easy or hard it is to startle the Daily Express to begin with makes the statement useless in helping me decide whether to purchase the book. Now if they said ‘Soon to be a Russ Myer production’, take my money.
June 12th, 2020 at 10:57 am
God, not ANOTHER stupid Herbal Essences ad!
June 12th, 2020 at 2:14 pm
@Fred: the Daily Express, home of Rupert Bear and Jean Rook, is still slightly surprised that women have the vote.
June 12th, 2020 at 5:45 pm
I find her hand gesture rather—intriguing. Is she indicating what is about to emerge next from the x-ray lake?
June 13th, 2020 at 3:54 am
Luckily Wylie was dead by then — daresay he wouldn’t have approved of the giant blurb that’s impossible to live up to.
@Tat: Heh. So the Daily Express is easily startled, and probably even more so at the time. Book was originally published in 1951, so they must have really been gobsmacked.
June 13th, 2020 at 6:01 am
1951? So definitely pre-sperm banks.
That cover really doesn’t have anything to do with the story, and seems to promise Sexy Oriental Mysticism more than anything else.
Of course, there have been other confusing covers:
The sexy mime in a box in an actual box: https://www.amazon.com/Disappearance-Bison-Frontiers-Imagination/dp/0803298412
Or the sexy mystery novel:
https://www.amazon.com/Disappearance-Philip-Wylie-ebook/dp/B00OPJW8R0
(There’s also the Naked Hippies in Space cover of the edition I had.)
OTOH, Cardinal books has a decent symbolic cover, and just flat out gives away the plot.
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/915vEXVIikL.jpg
June 13th, 2020 at 1:30 pm
DSWBT (3) GSS! GSS Indeed (and damn you, because I can’t get that Rocky the flying Squirrel quote out of my head)!