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November 08, 2007

Just be-Cos, that's why

by bookgasm

come on people reviewOver at BOOKGASM, we're an opinionated lot, sharing our two cents on the important issues that affect the world populace ... like, why doesn't Bill Cosby's new book COME ON PEOPLE have a comma in the title?

Asks guest editorialist Davis Sweet: "Not COME ON, COMMA, PEOPLE, which might make sense as the title of a rant. For example, COME ON, PEOPLE, STOP BEING MORONS! Instead, we have COME ON PEOPLE, which is a bukkake porn title. ... And here’s the cover, in misty blue with jism-white text and smeary white dribbles across the middle. Bawm-chicka-WOW."

Switching from one bodily fluid to another, we also turned our attention this week to Paul Bibeau's SUNDAYS WITH VLAD, a humorous pop-culture examination of all things Drac: "For the book, Bibeau – a former editor of Maxim, but we won’t hold that against him – immersed himself in vampire culture, resulting in a globetrotting romp that wrings as many laughs out of the subject as it does the willies."

sundays with vlad reviewTo key off the loose theme we've got going, we called Vincent Verga's heavy, pricey coffee-table book CARTOGRAPHIA: MAPPING CIVILZATIONS as "porn" for map lovers.

Truck on over and you can also read reviews on Mickey Spillane's final crime novel, a Harlan Coben reissue, a three-in-one Gold Medal collection from Stark House Press, plus Josh Conviser's EMPYRE, William Lashner's A KILLER'S KISS and Preston Darby's THE RELUCTANT ASSASSIN. So come on, people!

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