March 13, 2007

Mere and Jayne and Beth ...

I know you'll laugh at this bad Trixie Belden book cover. II love the comment too). So my X-rated chapter additions weren't quite off the mark, huh? Judgmental Christian families booting me out of their house notwithstanding?

That's not the cover of the copy I had, though.

Here's an entire archive of bad book covers. I am CRYING about some of them (and the commentary is hysterical - example - for the book entitled The Good Old Days, the comment says: Ah, the good old days, when deformed freaks would wander around the prairie on really short stilts.) Etc. Pages and pages of horrible book covers. Heaven.

Thanks for linking, Ernie.


Posted by sheila
Comments

I had a Satan Burger once. It gave me gas.

Posted by: Lisa at March 13, 2007 3:28 PM

hahaha

How 'bout the cover for "Virgin Heat"? I find it completely disturbing.

Posted by: red at March 13, 2007 3:33 PM

Sheila,
I saw this earlier today and was totally thinking about the "Virgin Heat" one. Um...kittie in a ring of fire...cannot compute...cannot compute.

Posted by: Emily at March 13, 2007 3:38 PM

I can't get past the thought of Columbo investigating the Manson murders. Can you imagine him interviewing Charlie? The comedic possibilities are endless.

Posted by: Dave E. at March 13, 2007 3:39 PM

Emily - hahaha Is it kind of akin to the "every time you masturbate a kitten is killed by a small demon chasing after it" thing that was circulating many moons ago?

But still ... the logic is seriously flawed.

Posted by: red at March 13, 2007 3:40 PM

Dave E - hahahaha I know!!! Like - WTF is that about?? Colombo looming over poor Sharon Tate (RIP)?

Posted by: red at March 13, 2007 3:41 PM

And the Agatha Christie one on the third page - the little doll with the afro being hung from a swingset or whatever. Um, WHAT?!?!?

Posted by: Emily at March 13, 2007 3:45 PM

I know!! The comment on that one is particularly funny (and insightful).

Posted by: red at March 13, 2007 3:49 PM

...and what's up with the giant iguana lurking in the background? I think most of these book covers were designed sometime in the late sixties when doctors were telling people LSD was good for them.

Posted by: Emily at March 13, 2007 3:55 PM

Holy shit, I'd forgotten about Trixie Belden. I read those back in forth grade because the teacher only had those on her bookshelves. That series is so old, and yet in 1997 I still picked them up.

Posted by: Liz at March 13, 2007 7:32 PM

There was a humorous takeoff on the relationship between Trixie and Nancy Drew on a blog which is now defunct... Tried to find it but can't (Michele Catalano used to trackback to it alot)

Posted by: JFH at March 13, 2007 7:42 PM

thanks for the link! I have a bad feeling about how many of these books I own... that's what I get for reading a lot of SciFi, I guess....

Posted by: melissa at March 14, 2007 12:09 AM

well, I was never ALLOWED to read Trixie Beldon. Those were Jayne's books and Jayne's alone. I remember one time when I borrowed a TB book from Beth just to piss Jayne off. heh heh heh...i think it worked too. I never even read the book.

Posted by: mere at March 14, 2007 2:26 PM

hahahahahaha I remember you leaving the room when "Trixie" would come up.

HA!!

Posted by: red at March 14, 2007 5:30 PM