Just a quick update with more links than comments.
October 1 to October 8, 1976
The Man in the High Castle, Phillip K. Dick
a website maintained by the author's family.
The Quick Red Fox, John D. MacDonald
an appropriately nostalgic site
Colette, a Taste for Life, Yvonne Mitchell
The Super Crooks, A Rogue's Gallery of Famous Hustlers, Swindlers and Thieves, R.M. Williams
October 1 to October 8, 2006
Haunted Land: Investigations into Ancient Mysteries and Modern Day Phenomena, Paul Devereaux
This was research for me, to factual to be very juicy, but I found some possibly useful things.
web site
Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
Rereading a book I first read a few years ago. Just as good the second time.
website
Topper,, Thorne Smith
This was a re-issue with a great foreword by Carolyn See. Definitely humor from a byegone age. Smith's hero has something in common with the Thurber daydreaming guys who live in fear of women. For me, the movie (Cary Grant as a ghost, wow) and the television series with Leo G. Carroll evoke fond memories that the book didn't quite...
one site
also
and a critiquey site.
The TV series Huge and what was added (and subtracted) from the book
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Usually a book contains subtle layers and little touches that are missing
from the more streamlined film version. But *Huge* is that rare video that
adds d...
11 years ago
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