Mar 30
Click for larger imageJuanPaul Comments: The crew from ‘Extreme Home Makeovers: Jungle Edition’ has arrived.
Published 1987
(Average: 6.17 out of 10)
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JuanPaul Comments: The crew from ‘Extreme Home Makeovers: Jungle Edition’ has arrived.
Published 1987
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March 30th, 2020 at 9:49 am
Needs dolphins. Or Bernadette Peters, uplift war veteran.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aFYCYiSdKw
March 30th, 2020 at 10:19 am
Some surprises when Roddy McDowall commandeers the casting for the Planet of the Apes sequels.
March 30th, 2020 at 10:27 am
The cover art is fine, but those embossed metallic title fonts are ugh.
I’m curious whether the “embossed metallic font cover” fad actually helped sell more books…
March 30th, 2020 at 10:47 am
@ARY: Doesn’t everyone like to see their faces on the cover of a book? You can pretend it’s your autobiography!
March 30th, 2020 at 12:16 pm
Embossing? I suspect it a devious way of smuggling drugs.
March 30th, 2020 at 3:00 pm
Look. In the background. It’s the Pretender!
March 30th, 2020 at 4:51 pm
Reasonably faithful to the book except for the elfin girl-guide’s codpiece.
March 30th, 2020 at 7:09 pm
My first thought was “none more green”.
Second was “is that a jaunty hip?”
@fred: GSS for finding that video. Bernadette could turn this into a proper song and dance. And it does need dolphins.
@ARY: Perhaps we’re blessed that publishing costs have gone up and we don’t get shiny embossed fonts any more. About the only thing they were useful for was bouncing sun off it to amuse a cat.
@B’man: eerie resemblance!
March 30th, 2020 at 7:39 pm
If it turns out that embossed metallic title fonts do help sell more books, will ARY overcome his natural revulsion and have a little chat with his publishers?
March 30th, 2020 at 9:27 pm
@Tat Wood: that’s a man, baby!
As said, not that bad a cover, although I find it a bit amusing that the guy is represented by just a head kinda floating back there. I wonder what’s on the left the chimp is pointing out to him?
(“So you think you can hang with us apes, tough guy? Well, let’s see you eat those grubs on the tree over there. In fact, why don’t you chug ’em?”)
March 31st, 2020 at 5:12 am
@GSSxn—Definitely an attempt at a jaunt on that hip, but not quite making it. Some kind of congenital issue, perhaps. All the jaunt seems to be concentrated in the right shoulder.
March 31st, 2020 at 5:16 am
Is this the sequel to The Uplift Bra ?
March 31st, 2020 at 12:16 pm
@BC: Yes, in the sequel there is very, very aggressive competition between rival underwear manufacturers. It would take too long to explain how the apes get involved – it’s… complicated.
March 31st, 2020 at 10:58 pm
The third one in the trilogy is The Uplift Hostile Takeover.
April 1st, 2020 at 10:50 am
Once apon a time I owned a copy of this book with that exact cover! And ludicrous as it seems, the cover is a pretty good snapshot of the events in the book (except the apes should be uplifted chimps, not gorillas). Yep, even the jaunty hip on the alien lass!