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The Disappearance

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Buddha really just wanted to be a hair stylist.Click for full UNSHEEPED image

Good Show Sir Comments: Sooo Mandy, going on holiday this summer?
Published 1974

Many thanks to Perry!

Actually, that cover IS a classical work of art!I would touch it without protective gloves.I've seen worse. Far, far, worse.Interesting, but I would still read it in public.Middlng: Neither awful nor awfully goodWould not like to be seen reading that!Awful... just awful...That belongs in a gold-lame picture frame!Gah... my eyes are burning! Feels so good!Good Show Sir! (Average: 8.67 out of 10)
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16 Responses to “The Disappearance”

  1. Bibliomancer Says:
    June 6th, 2016 at 10:36 am

    So that’s what The Lady in the Lake looks like!

    Nice trick. Kind of like pulling a rabbit out of a hat.

  2. THX 1138 Says:
    June 6th, 2016 at 10:50 am

    “Nitty Norman the Head Explorer” doesn’t quite have the same ring to it.

  3. Dead Stuff With Big Teeth Says:
    June 6th, 2016 at 11:15 am

    @BM: thanks a lot, mister! Now, I can’t help but imagine her showing her udders and saying, ‘Now here’s something you’ll REALLY enjoy!’ in the voice of Rocky the Flying Squirrel.

  4. Dead Stuff With Big Teeth Says:
    June 6th, 2016 at 11:17 am

    An unexplained cosmic “blink” splits humanity along gender lines into two divergent timelines: from the men’s perspective, all the women disappear and from the women’s, all men vanish. Colour me startled, then.

  5. Jonathan Oliver Says:
    June 6th, 2016 at 11:47 am

    £5.50! For a tatty second hand copy? Fuck right off.

  6. Tat Wood Says:
    June 6th, 2016 at 2:37 pm

    If I didn’t know better, I’d suspect this was a sequel to ‘The Day the Worm Turned’ by Gerald Wylie.

  7. fred Says:
    June 6th, 2016 at 2:56 pm

    How can she stand erect when everything below the waters surface is nothing but bones. X-ray water? Unfathomable metaphorical mumbo jumbo? A Star Trekian interdimensional rift? Bad plot device?

  8. Bibliomancer Says:
    June 6th, 2016 at 3:54 pm

    I call “font problems” here. No blurb should be allowed to have a font size larger than the book title.

  9. Ray P Says:
    June 6th, 2016 at 7:01 pm

    Like the label on a bottle of far-eastern shampoo.

  10. Anna T. Says:
    June 6th, 2016 at 8:03 pm

    So the book is “startling” because Our Heroine has a sky-god as her personal hairdresser. Or does it have something to do with the sky-eyes behind him?

  11. HappyBookworm Says:
    June 7th, 2016 at 3:47 am

    @Bibliomancer – I agree. I thought for a moment that the book was called “The World’s Most Startling Novel.” First of all, it would take a lot of hubris to name one’s book “the most [any adjective] novel in the world.” Second of all, readers wouldn’t know what it was was about…not sure that’s clear anyway…

  12. B. Chiclitz Says:
    June 7th, 2016 at 4:12 am

    “Now, hold very still. You’ll love this trick. It’ll feel just like I’ve broken an egg on your head and the yolk is slowly oozing through your hair. Great party act!”

  13. Perry Armstrong Says:
    June 7th, 2016 at 4:43 am

    This cover gives off a similar ‘Health Spa’ vibe as did Brian Aldiss’ ‘The Primal Urge’: http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=11186

    @Jonathan Oliver: price is in Aussie dollars which are approx. half UK£, but still seems steep given condition of the book.

  14. Jonathan Oliver Says:
    June 7th, 2016 at 9:40 am

    Ah, fair enough. Still, though…

  15. infoqueen Says:
    June 11th, 2016 at 5:52 pm

    @fred: She’s standing on the turtles.

  16. Dead Stuff With Big Teeth Says:
    June 11th, 2016 at 8:07 pm

    How the Heimlich Manoeuvre works in Perelandra.

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