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Old 01-09-2009, 10:01 PM   #47
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Originally Posted by RobertH View Post
Hi, first post so I thought I'd start off with something useful as an introduction.

Has anyone read the old Thorne Smith books? More fantasy than Sci-fi but let's not get into that argument.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorne_Smith

James Thorne Smith Jr. (March 27, 1892–June 21, 1934), was an American writer of humorous supernaturnal fantasy fiction.

Best known today for his creation of Topper, Smith's comic fantasy fiction (most of it involving sex, lots of drinking, and supernatural transformations, and aided by racy illustrations) sold millions of copies in the early 1930s. Smith drank as steadily as his characters; his appearance in James Thurber's The Years With Ross involves an unexplained week-long disappearance.

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I can remember laughing semi-continuously at long stretches of "The Night Life of the Gods". And then I liked his "Bishop's Jaegers" which didn't have any Supernatural elements.

From that same page:

The Bishop's Jaegers (1932). Depressed and indifferent heir of a vast coffee import fortune, Peter Van Dyke finds his life and high society engagement turn upside down when his secretary, Josephine Duval determines that she will rescue him from his horrible fate by ruining him morally.

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Robert
I've read Topper and enjoyed it. Thanks for the recommendations, I'll check out some more Thorne Smith. I'd forgotten about him.
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