Bookman 📚

This post is close-captioned for the herring-impaired.

I sure hope the next Bond movie is directed by the Villeneuve who made Enemy and Sicario, not the Villeneuve who made Blade Runner 2049 and the Dunes.

A novel was published earlier this year in three simultaneous versions: regular hardcover, coloured-edges hc, and coloured-edges signed hc. A fourth hardcover version, with different cover art, has just been published. Too much? What say you?

Aw, fuck.

Hilarious.

My @ala-booklist.bsky.social review of Chuck Palahniuk's Galleria is now live:

I had forgotten how much I enjoyed this show.

Been hand-seiling this remarkable post-apocalyptic horror to my customers. Sold all but two of them now. @richardchizmar.bsky.social @simonandschuster.bsky.social

I can only assume Robert Vaughn and Christopher Lee did Starship Invasions (1977) because their agents told them, hey, sci-fi's gonna be big real soon.

From Chuck Lorre's memoir, Sitcom. He's not wrong.

It's cool to see Sam Elliott in season 5 of Mission: Impossible, but oh boy they clearly had no idea what to do with his character.

Found this lovely @torbooks.bsky.social edition of Wells's The War of the Worlds. The wear and tear at the edges of the cover is part of the design.

Somebody please tell @thr.com what "cult" means.

I'm sorry, but I thought Bakker died years ago.

A deliberately misleading blurb, or journalistic incompetence? It's so hard to tell these days.

I mean, just look at this paragraph (about boosters of the auteur theory and the way they wrote about Hitchcock). You gotta know the references to get what he's saying. And Goldman shows us the respect of assuming we do.

Reconnecting with an old friend. The thing I like most about the book is this: it's written for people with some knowledge of the subject. Goldman drops terms and names (a parenthetical mention of Gore Vidal) with no supplemental explanation, assuming we know what he's talking about. He respects us.

I'm pretty sure I'll never buy a product or take advice from someone who can't figure out how to attach that little microphone to their clothing.

Our old friend Steven Grives (Alan Denson) makes an appearance as a baddie on Mission: Impossible 1988. #TheSandbaggers

You know what I miss? The forty-plus years of performances John Belushi might have gifted us with.

Apparently there are a bunch of websites that reproduce social media posts, then summarize them, and call that an article. That's just lazy.

If only there were something newsworthy going on in Washington....

I love the original Mission: Impossible (1966-73), but oh boy they did a lousy job of hiding their stunt people's faces.

Love this book.

I'd listen to that Booklist guy. @joycecaroloates.bsky.social

I'd listen to that Booklist guy.

This ad was on FB. Guy couldn't be bothered to proofread and correct the AI-generated misspellings.

Fixed it for you, @nytimes.com.

Apparently this was the first film for Stuart Margolin AND Robert Ito.

Amazing book. So incredibly well executed.

The Devil Takes You Home is only $1.99 everywhere! I could tell you it won the Stoker and Shirley Jackson awards and was an Edgar, Locus, Dragon, and Goodreads finalist, but I won’t. Instead, I’ll share my favorite 1-star reviews! www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B09N... bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

WHY ARE THEY ENGLISH-SUBTITLING TELEVISION COMMERCIALS THAT ARE ALREADY IN ENGLISH?

Oh yes indeedy.

Excerpt from an email I received today from a publicist. I've never heard of her, or the publisher, but somehow she knows I've read a horror novel recently.

Why is no one talking about Mr. Curry's delicious performance as King Chicken in Duckman?

Funny how a lot of the news stories about this put the word offensive in quotation marks. As though there were any doubt the costume is offensive.

I'd listen to that Booklist guy.

They had an ideal opportunity to make a terrific Bond spoof. They took the serious route instead. Bad decision.

Now reading. Irwin Allen bought this and the similarly-themed The Glass Inferno, by Robinson and Scortia, so he could make The Towering Inferno. Stern's first novel, 1958's The Bright Road to Fear, won an Edgar Award.

This post contains sax and violins. Viewer discretion is advised.

Gotta love the Miskin Law commercial in which the lawyers sit around telling each other things they already know.

I watched every episode of this show, first run. It was Must-See Bad TV.

Reading The Secrets We Hide, by @karinslaughter.com, with an eye to reviewing in my newspaper column. As usual, it's very good.

I see Tim Hortons is doing a Harry Potter promo. Is a name change to Terf Hortons next? Who's up for a boycott?

Watching this on Tubi. Heard of it years ago, but hadn't seen it until now.

Reading Mark Binelli's forthcoming biography of Martin Scorsese, Just a Shot Away, for a @ala-booklist.bsky.social review. A rich and revelatory life story, well told.

It's not inconceivable.

Also reviewing it for @ala-booklist.bsky.social

I just read @andyrichter.co's wonderful Elf Unwrapped, co-written with @aaronkaro.bsky.social, publishing in November. It's a celebration of Elf (2003), a very interesting making-of, and just a hugely entertaining story.

I love me some post-apocalyptic horror. Them, by W.H. Chizmar, ticks every box on a horror-lover's list. Terrifically terrifying.

@richardchizmar.bsky.social, I can't seem to find Billy on Bluesky. Let him know I'm really enjoying Them, if you get a chance? (In related news, I filed my @ala-booklist.bsky.social review of Killing the Boogeyman. Verdict: I likes it.)