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Click for larger imageBibliomancer Comments: Who ya gonna call?! Car-nack-i!
Published 1973
(Average: 9.00 out of 10)
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Bibliomancer Comments: Who ya gonna call?! Car-nack-i!
Published 1973
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July 11th, 2018 at 10:37 am
“If a pet pig is good enough for George Clooney, it’s good enough for me!”
July 11th, 2018 at 10:39 am
This cover is so uncomfortable to look at, I can only imagine the artist broke down in tears halfway through painting it.
July 11th, 2018 at 10:53 am
Is there a “reverse jazz hands” tag?
July 11th, 2018 at 1:00 pm
I wouldn’t be caught dead reading this book with this cover. Mostly because I would be afraid Carnaki would find me and make me defend this cover.
The summary of this book actually sounds very interesting so it’s a shame this cover is so bad. I wouldn’t look twice at it in a bookstore with this cover.
And I second the reverse jazz hands tag.
July 11th, 2018 at 1:01 pm
🎶I’ve been through the desert with a pig on a chain
It felt bad ’cause my feet were in pain
In the desert, you can walk without shame
‘Cause you’re friends with a pig and you’re totally lame
La, la, la….
July 11th, 2018 at 2:32 pm
“I tried to tell you that poorly designed chastity belt would get you in trouble.”
July 11th, 2018 at 2:39 pm
They have been kept in a mayonnaise jar on Funk and Wagnalls porch since noon today.
July 11th, 2018 at 4:40 pm
@B.C.: And what is the sense of a chastity belt when you’re already pregnant?
@JuanPaul: GSS.
July 11th, 2018 at 5:21 pm
So THAT’S what happened to Leo Sayer.
July 11th, 2018 at 5:23 pm
I’m not sure what a naked, malnourished man with a pig attached to him by a rope has to do with the plot of this book at all. Especially since, as @THX 1138 pointed out, the result is just wrong to look at.
July 11th, 2018 at 5:57 pm
“An oinkredible reading experience!” – The Times-Pigayune
July 11th, 2018 at 7:15 pm
“So then I says to the genie, ‘For my final wish, I want a huge hog hanging between my legs!'”
July 11th, 2018 at 8:07 pm
“Wallow in this sowperb book.” — The Sties of London
July 11th, 2018 at 8:30 pm
“A work that stands alongside Ham-let.” The New Pork Times
July 11th, 2018 at 9:01 pm
“I never get boar-ed of reading Hodgson!” — Kevin Bacon
July 12th, 2018 at 12:07 am
The fuck?!
I am too disgusted by the photo to join the porcine puns (should have been Space Sheep, for “Ew” was my reaction).
@THX (2): I agree. It’s almost physically painful to look at, and I’ve been toughened by years of GSS.
@JuanPaul (5): GSS.
@fred (7): That was my first thought, until the picture loaded and drove all thoughts from my head.
This has to be another case of “random creepy painting slapped on book”, because I’ve read some of these stories, and there are no naked post-apocalyptic reverse jazz hands mutants anywhere. They’re from 1913, for crying out loud, everyone (even the pigs) was fully clothed at all times then! There is an evil pig ghost in one of them, so I guess they figured “hey, close enough!”
July 12th, 2018 at 12:40 am
“This is absolutely snoutrageous!” – William Hopes Hog’s-Gone
July 12th, 2018 at 1:26 am
I mean, we’ve all had that dream where we’re naked, chained to a pig and doing Max Bygraves impressions.
Or is it Tommy Cooper?
July 12th, 2018 at 4:19 am
“I much prefer ‘Fize of the Gabriel Piglets.'” — Gerard Manley Hogkins
July 12th, 2018 at 6:32 am
Voulez-vous cochon avec moi?
July 12th, 2018 at 7:41 pm
No, just no.
July 13th, 2018 at 8:34 pm
@TW #18 I would have gone with Michael Jackson-Thriller impressions
July 16th, 2018 at 8:00 pm
“Here ghost, here ghost…”
September 24th, 2018 at 8:51 pm
The original book (without some of the additional stories added later) is in Public Domain on project Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10832
September 28th, 2018 at 2:38 am
I am disappoint that this has fallen to 3rd place. Still horrific.
December 25th, 2018 at 10:03 pm
Mac and Me – In Space! With a pig!
January 3rd, 2019 at 12:16 pm
When Cameron arrived at the reunion party of his old fraternity, the Grandmaster greeted him with a sinister surprise…
“David! The Brexit debacle, which you caused, broke fraternity rules — and you know the punishment for breaking the rules! Fetch the pig and chain!”
January 3rd, 2019 at 3:51 pm
HEYYYYYY! ARY is BAAACK! With the best comment on the whole Brexit mess I’ve seen for a while.
January 4th, 2019 at 5:00 am
ARY’s comment is probably about the only good thing to come out of either Brexit or this cover.
March 4th, 2019 at 9:32 am
The pot-belly and the pig.
April 4th, 2022 at 1:37 am
@Bibliomancer – fantastic! It’s the outer limits all right!
@JuanPaul (5): I second that GSS
When I hear that tune in future, my eyes will itch and water just a little bit.
October 7th, 2023 at 7:44 pm
” Chains, my baby’s got me locked up in chains..”
October 7th, 2024 at 4:27 pm
@TW #9: I think this illustrates the cause of Leo Sayer’s falsetto singing.