Word: paperbacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whenever a joke fad becomes entrenched, the small Los Angeles publishing house of Price/Stern/Sloan issues a slender paperback containing a sampling of the humor. Thus, in 1953, the firm published Droodles, a collection of simple line drawings with funny captions; in 1963 it put together The Elephant Book, offering the then-popular elephant jokes. Now, at least by Price/ Stern/Sloan standards, another kind of joke has made the grade. The company has just published The Good News, Bad News Book...
...parade of adults who drop by to share vicariously in the kid's illusory freedom. Business-as-usual or no-business-as-usual, you'd do well to catch the production before it's gone (and, at very least, should take a look at the Delta paperback edition). Michael Weller is among the first to make sense of our lives and he's definitely not to be missed...
Both The Terminal Man and Binary -written under the author's old Harvard Medical School paperback pen name, John Lange-share their author's distinctive touch. Crichton creations thrive on a scientific esoterica that owes more to fact than to fiction. Crichton people tend to be value-neutral technicians who, like sorcerer's apprentices, meddle with forces they cannot control. Above all, there is Crichton's almost compulsive awareness of time and his skill at explaining the complex without losing the reader's interest...
...learning the movie business. Right down to those hard-boiled comments as familiar on film sets as in the operating room. Not that he ever spent much time in surgery. At Harvard, Crichton used a pen more often than a scalpel. Before graduating he had published half a dozen paperback thrillers under the name of John Lange. He also researched Five Patients, his documentary about the workings of a large medical center. In 1968 A Case of Need won the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award. For that book -a swiftly plotted story biased in favor of abortion-Crichton used...
...helpless Raymond Chandler fan has trouble staying away from the Cs on any paperback mystery shelf. He tests every anthology to see if some scraplet of Chandler's small output will turn up. This volume rewards with an immaculate early story, Red Wind, and punishes with a dreadful late effort called The Pencil. Also included are two famous novellas, Trouble Is My Business and Blackmailers Don't Shoot, and two full novels, The Little Sister and The Long Goodbye. The difference between the two novels reveals an uncomfortable truth. The Little Sister is vintage Chandler. The plot...