Jan 18
Lady Baker comments: I’ve been informed that this is a horror book.
Published 1971
(Average: 7.14 out of 10)
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Lady Baker comments: I’ve been informed that this is a horror book.
Published 1971
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January 18th, 2023 at 12:30 pm
Nah, if it were horror, we’d see this guy’s pasty butt.
January 18th, 2023 at 1:10 pm
Smoking in bed can kill you. The horror.
January 18th, 2023 at 1:17 pm
Imagine setting up a threesome and the guy shows up with that resting bitch face
January 18th, 2023 at 2:08 pm
@JuanPaul
He’s just pouting because he got into a fight with the author, who wanted to pose with the other two models himself…
January 18th, 2023 at 2:22 pm
I’m not saying this isn’t a terrible cover, but it’s at least accurate to the plot:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Man_(Amis_novel)
January 18th, 2023 at 4:05 pm
Another artist who can’t do feet.
January 18th, 2023 at 4:18 pm
Albert Finney deserved to be on this cover. Bastards.
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31031852227&searchurl=an%3Dkingsley%2Bamis%26sortby%3D17%26tn%3Dgreen%2Bman&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-image7
January 18th, 2023 at 7:50 pm
Rita, Sue and Piers Morgan too.
January 18th, 2023 at 8:52 pm
That fart is the true horror, by everyone’s faces.
January 18th, 2023 at 9:29 pm
“I know he was a drag and all, Barbie, but did you have to fucking decapitate him? Cleaning up all that green blood will be a nightmare.”
January 18th, 2023 at 10:17 pm
Ever been in a sauna with two hot almost naked babes, but then been unable to do anything because you’re just a disembodied head?
The horror, the horror.
January 18th, 2023 at 10:42 pm
More like “the napping man overlooking one sleeping chick while the other’s worried about her hand and other chick’s body disappearing into a mysterious cloud”.
@Tor: GSS!
@Michael: I clicked your link, then went to look at Amis’ other works, and the first edition cover of “Colonel Sun” (an authorized 007 novel) is one I’m sure we’ve seen here, but on a different book!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Sun
Can’t tell since the search function doesn’t work. But who could forget the eye, ear, and legs, as much as one might try.
AHA! I clicked through all of “eye-yi-yi” and didn’t find it, but one of them had a link to “sky-eyes” and there it is:
https://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=3227
Someone noted the same on that link.
Two years after “Colonel Sun”, but who knows how long the painting had been hanging around. Maybe preceding both books, and inappropriate to either.
“CS” sold badly — well, no wonder, with that cover.
January 19th, 2023 at 8:24 am
Michael_T@5: I tried to read this book a couple of years ago, but very quickly got tired of Amis’s alcoholic, lecherous first-person protagonist. So I can confirm that there is some relevance to the plot.
January 19th, 2023 at 4:10 pm
“Reginald!! That’s disgusting!”
“I say! She who smelt it, indeed dealt it!”
January 20th, 2023 at 2:04 am
@Lady B – the only person truly horrified is the kid who left this stinker on the floor of his bedroom where his mom could see it on laundry day.
The rest of us are puzzled as to how someone thought this might be a good idea for a cover… thanks for sharin’
October 7th, 2023 at 7:56 pm
Hooray! At last a book on this site which I’ve actually read..not much of a Sci-fi fan but definitely a fan of cruddy artwork. K. Amis is really good, but I remember this as being atypical of him..sort of M.R.James unsettling. Don’t recall much foggy rumpo, though.