Feb 11
JuanPaul Comments: Don’t worry about your dangerous liaison in the ice cream cone. The mime won’t tell anyone.
Published 1976
JuanPaul Comments: Don’t worry about your dangerous liaison in the ice cream cone. The mime won’t tell anyone.
Published 1976
February 11th, 2019 at 1:56 pm
(all right, let’s get this one out of the way)
Tony Profumo – dragging the family’s name through the mud.
February 11th, 2019 at 2:07 pm
“Wait till you see what happens when we all get trapped in a phone booth!”
February 11th, 2019 at 2:31 pm
“A novel with the good taste of a Mr Whippy!”
February 11th, 2019 at 3:20 pm
A novelist who is incapable of thinking outside the box.
February 11th, 2019 at 3:41 pm
Apparently printed too early in ’76 for it to sponge off of The Omen.
February 11th, 2019 at 3:46 pm
Wow, I know people are rough on mimes. But someone really beat the shit out of this book cover.
February 11th, 2019 at 4:49 pm
What’s the difference between ‘horror’ and ‘terror’?
For example, if I start imagining this cover is so beat up because it was owned by someone who was *really* into mimes, does that make me ‘horrified’ or ‘terrified’?
February 11th, 2019 at 6:19 pm
@Tom Noir: broadly, ‘horror’ is revulsion, ‘terror’ is fear. The idea of being stuck on a long train journey with someone like that is terrifying, just imagining what this person did with the book is horrifying.
February 11th, 2019 at 6:23 pm
Is it foolish to ask if there is an audio book version?
February 11th, 2019 at 7:22 pm
@Alice: Bravo!
“A novel with the walking into a high wind of Twister!”
February 11th, 2019 at 7:50 pm
@ Tom Noir—even worse than being horrified, even worse than being terrified, yes, even worse than being mummified—is being mimified.
@Alice: GSS!
February 12th, 2019 at 3:23 am
Isn’t saying this is a horror novel completely redundant with this title? Especially given this cover? Would have saved all that wordiness down at the bottom. Although it’s correct about engendering both horror and terror.
The only good thing about this cover is that it reminded me of “Mime Time” on “Animaniacs”.
@Raoul: The fact that this still existed to be photographed recently is horrible and terrible AND signifies that in fact, the cover wasn’t beat up enough.
@B’mancer: bravo.
@Alice: GSS!
February 12th, 2019 at 3:39 am
@Raoul: tough on mime, tough on the causes of mime.
February 12th, 2019 at 4:17 am
Here’s hoping this is the start of “Mime Week” here at GSS!
February 12th, 2019 at 6:41 am
(Reads blurb)
Wait, does that mean the mime is either Satan or Eros? Not very flattering to either one.
I suppose the book might be miming the act of throwing red herrings at us, and it’s just a non-supernatural mime sex cult. (You know, the 70s).
February 13th, 2019 at 1:49 am
@B’mancer: hush yo’ mouf.
@Bruce: I’d think Satan was classier/more fashionable than to dress up as a mime — we know from the great bards that he’s a man of wealth and taste* — but that’s not to say the devil didn’t make the mime start the sex cult.
“The 70’s” is also the only possible explanation for a mime sex cult of any sort. Which makes me kinda queasy about my childhood viewings of Shields and Yarnell, frankly.
* see also the mouseover text of the next cover for more from those guys — is it their week? will sci-fi brown sugar be next?
November 1st, 2021 at 10:58 am
Mimes tried to buy this book but often failed to communicate their intent with baffled bookstore personnel.
October 2nd, 2022 at 3:17 pm
The sub-genre of Olympic’s WTF never caught on.
October 4th, 2022 at 1:10 am
Emster’s imagination: Early 80’s Stephen King wanders thru used book store, sees this cover, sighs in exasperation, writes something much more worthy of our time.