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Personally I would like to see them go all the way, pull out all the stops and establish a book section for "shameless bastards."
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I was born too late for the pulps in their heyday. I had to catch them in paperback reprints. If this book series presented us with good, pulp-like entertainment, I'm sure I'd buy a few in ebook format, at the right price (i.e. cheap).
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Never read Esquire, I always assumed it were just for toffs. But if they bring back big gun and beer stories I'll be having some of those. Pulp Press in Brighton left a big gap in the market when they switched to girl stuff.
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Based on that review, I'll have to give the GHOST books a look-see the next time I'm in the mood for some farce. Thanks for the link. ![]() |
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Funny, I saw an ad for Esquire on the internet just the other day; and I thought to myself, I've never met a man who reads Esquire or Gentleman's Quarterly.
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You missed the window in the late nineties when a lot of the stories copied direct from the magazines were out of copyright. The rights have since been reasserted but a lot of cool stuff was free during the .com era.
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So was I.
It turns out I have the full five book set (Webscriptions!) so I read it last night. (It's even built like the old ACE Doubles! Two separate stories.) It is *very* pulpish. Tongue-in-cheek, mostly, and generally amusing. A bit of a farce in parts, a bit serious in others. Much better written that even the "modern" pulps. (Mack Bolan, etc.) Even if you have a sense of humor, it'll (intentionally) offend about 70% of the world population. ![]() The darn thing holds together, though; fast-paced, breezy, amusing. Not to be taken seriously but it would make a pretty fun action flick for Bruce Willis, except hardly anybody in hollywood would be amused by its "neanderthal conservative" narrative tone. A bit of clarification: I doubt pulpish shoot'em ups is what these Esquire "men's fiction" ebooks are aiming for. The NYT report: http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.co...-mens-fiction/ has this quote: Quote:
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Ok im confuse about the "manfiction" because the last time i checked ive been reading it for the last 40 years left and right.
Has esquire never heard of Tom clancy's Jack ryan series (or 3 movies made from it) or Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne Series (or its 3 movies) Or Clive Cusslers Dirk Pitt novels (or the movie) or Jack Du Brul's Philip Mercer series or Steve Berries Cotton Molone books. there is probably more than 200 "man books" from those 5 Authors alone and there are thousands of other "action adventure/thriller writers out there. im curious as to where the heck they have been all these years, well i dont need any of Esquires help finding books, and i still have plenty of "manbooks" left to read from jeff shaara,stephan coonts,,Ken follet,patrick robinson and many more. |
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