Comments on: An interesting new scifi-fantasy book: Evil Speaks https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/05/09/evil-speaks-book-review/ Thu, 11 May 2017 23:14:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Christopher Winter https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/05/09/evil-speaks-book-review/#comment-461859 Thu, 11 May 2017 23:14:33 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=24045#comment-461859 Judging by their silhouettes, none of the three women is overweight. But of course the cover illustration does not always reflect the contents of the book (or the plot of the movie.)

For evidence, I present this link to the DVD of Tobor the Great. Trust me: there is a woman in this 1954 flick, but she never finds herself draped across the arms of the giant menacing metal man.

]]> By: Christopher Winter https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/05/09/evil-speaks-book-review/#comment-461858 Thu, 11 May 2017 23:04:11 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=24045#comment-461858 I made $42,538 per hour doing the same job the late Frederik Pohl once held: specimen collection specialist — AND YOU CAN TOO! Simply hook your browser to www-fetched-far-com…

]]> By: Rosenkavalier https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/05/09/evil-speaks-book-review/#comment-461857 Tue, 09 May 2017 19:11:22 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=24045#comment-461857 These “SciFi-fantasy” books are a great bridge to the meeting of kindred spirits. Just now I had to transfer from the #73 Jurassic Park bus to my local coach and I asked the driver if anybody else had told him he looked like the film actor Kevin Costner. Yes, one other person had told him the same thing. There was no place to sit except orthogonal to an exotic beauty and un femme d’un certain age. I started to ask, “Miss, does the bus driver look to you like Kevin Costner?” but the Audrey Hepburn look-alike would have nothing of it, so I corrected my science-blog-divertissement spiel to address the entire ridership, “Do you guys think the bus driver looks like Kevin Costner?” Everybuddy agreed there was a resemblance. I said he was in the movie about, “If you build it, they will come,” and one lady sharp-shooted me with “Field of Dreams.” I countered with “Dances with Wolves.” Then the lady of a certain age left Miss Hepburn’s side and DeBussy’ed or de-bussed, leaving Audrey to express her disdain by walking all the way to the back and opening up a book to read. “Dilettanten!” thought to himself Yours Truly, who opened up his Russian-language novel and commenced Clockwork-Oranging the situation — there were now a total of two passengers reading suum cuique librum. Blogreader here would have left it at that, but a gray-haired old guy pushing a walker got on and needed Rosenkavalier’s seat, so son-of-Strauss here had to walk to the back and sit orthogonal to Audrey Hepburn again, she reading her crime-thriller and moi, ich lese mein russisches Buch. “Excuse me, miss, could you ring that bell for me?” Hesitation on Audrey’s part, followed by compliance with the request of a favor. Asked if it was a good book, Breakfast At Tiffanny’s replied, “I just started reading it.” Asked if I might see the cover, she held up, “Criminal” by Terra Elan McVoy, which our field agents report is at http://www.amazon.com/dp/1442421630 on Amazon. Strangers when we meet the next time, “How did that ‘Criminal’ book turn out to be?” So thanks for the carte blanche d’ecrivir cette reverie, and please delete this EYES ONLY post before my shrink finds out about it.

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