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Saturday, February 01, 2003

In a future of multi-sex, there is only one taboo! To love a robot!

I bought this heinously cheesy scifi book Chrome by George Nader at the Salvation Army the other weekend. Apparently he was Rock Hudson's secretary's long-time lover.

It made almost no sense (and it had a kind of freaky bondage theme, but then so does almost every work of gay-oriented scifi I can think of), but the hilariously cheesy sex scenes were worth the price of admission.

Of course, the price of admission was only 25 cents.

But still.

So anyway, after I had a good giggle over the book, I looked it up online and discovered that it's selling for around $40 for a paperback.

Profit!

I can't find a good shot of the cover anyplace online so maybe later I'll dust off my scanner and you can laugh at the scary wrestler dudes on the front.

Posted at 05:10 PM

Comments

001. Caitlin

Freaky bondage themes! Woohoo!

Posted at 12:49PM on Sunday, February 02, 2003

002. Ll

No detailing of what the abebooks.com description was? That was the best part!

Posted at 02:18PM on Sunday, February 02, 2003

003. me

Ack! It isn't there anymore, Laura. Anyway, for the rest of you, one of the abebooks.com listings described the book as "HARD, STRAIGHT" or something of the sort. I'm sure they'll swear up and down that they were just talking about the binding.

Posted at 08:49AM on Monday, February 03, 2003

004. Laurel

A "straight" binding? That's a new one...in other news, my job interview went stellarly well. News as it develops!

Posted at 03:14PM on Thursday, February 06, 2003

005. Laurel

Hey Bri. I just checked out your Chrome link and LOOKY THERE. Right in the first paragraph they mention Melissa Scott, whose book I've been trying to get you to read for years. Wanna borrow it? I'll swap it to you for the country house mystery...

Posted at 01:52AM on Friday, February 07, 2003

006. me

I dunno, Laurel. Is her book as cruddy as Chrome? And does it have a fistfight in a helicopter that ends with oral sex? Just checking.

Posted at 07:09AM on Friday, February 07, 2003

007. Laurel

I like to think Trouble and Her Friends doesn't suck, cos I really enjoyed it at age 20. But by that definition, it probably does.

Now look what you've done. You made me think about myself six years ago; excuse me while I crawl to one corner of the bathtub and have the shakes.