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Pththya-lyi
Nov 8, 2009

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CopperHound posted:

I found this gem in the laundry room of a Campingplatz
Maybe :nws: (illustrated nipple): http://imgur.com/5TxW63m

Not nearly as crazy as all the stuff OP has dug up of course.

There are so many more! Longarm was a series of adult Western novels that chronicled the adventures of U.S. Deputy Marshal Curtis Long. The series ran from 1978 to 2015 and there were over 450 installments













Witness a sample of Tabor Evan's deathless prose:

Longarm and the Deadly Deadman posted:

Longarm was able to enjoy Ramona longer, and wilder, as Carlota cuddled close to kiss Ramona passionately on the mouth and finger Longarm's rear end as he long-donged her sister.

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Pththya-lyi
Nov 8, 2009

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My husband was using my computer and asked me: "Have you been looking up cowboy porn?" Turns out the Longarm quote was the last thing I had c/ped and he accidentally pasted it into a search bar

The things I do for you people

Pththya-lyi
Nov 8, 2009

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I'm curious about the twelve-legged horse thing myself

E: And his advice on "the causes and cures of feeble passion in women." That should be very interesting.

E2: Oh, and how to make your kid good at math and poetry and stuff

Pththya-lyi fucked around with this message at 04:53 on Jan 6, 2018

Pththya-lyi
Nov 8, 2009

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For more Wanda E. Brunstetter and other Amish novels written by evangelical Christians, please see any public library in the rural Midwest

I've always been partial to this cover:



quote:

A New York Times Bestseller! Join the club of unlikely quilters who show up for Amish widow Emma Yoder’s quilting classes. A troubled young woman, a struggling couple, a widower, a rough and tough biker, and a preacher’s wife make up the mismatched lot. But as their problems begin to bind them together like the scraps of fabric stitched together in a quilt, they learn to open up and lend a helping hand. Is this what God had in mind to heal hurting hearts and create beauty from fragments?

It inspired two sequels and a musical production put on by Shipshewana, Indiana's own Blue Gate Theatre

https://www.riegsecker.com/shipshewana/blue-gate-theatre/half-stitched-musical/store-book.php

Pththya-lyi
Nov 8, 2009

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Posting about evangelical Christian books got me thinking about one of the most ill-conceived books I have ever encountered:


quote:

In 1944, blond and blue-eyed Jewess Hadassah Benjamin feels abandoned by God when she is saved from a firing squad only to be handed over to a new enemy. Pressed into service by SS-Kommandant Colonel Aric von Schmidt at the transit camp of Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia, she is able to hide behind the false identity of Stella Muller. However, in order to survive and maintain her cover as Aric's secretary, she is forced to stand by as her own people are sent to Auschwitz.

Suspecting her employer is a man of hidden depths and sympathies, Stella cautiously appeals to him on behalf of those in the camp. Aric's compassion gives her hope, and she finds herself battling a growing attraction for this man she knows she should despise as an enemy.

Stella pours herself into her efforts to keep even some of the camp's prisoners safe, but she risks the revelation of her true identity with every attempt. When her bravery brings her to the point of the ultimate sacrifice, she has only her faith to lean upon. Perhaps God has placed her there for such a time as this, but how can she save her people when she is unable to save herself?

Let me spell this out for you: this is an evangelical Christian retelling of the Biblical Book of Esther as a romance between a Jew and a Nazi officer set in the middle of the Holocaust. Where the heroine draws strength not from her own Jewish faith, but from a Christian Bible that "miraculously" opens to passages relevant to her current situation. :negative:

As you might imagine, the larger romance novel-reading community was not happy when For Such A Time got peer-nominated for two industry awards back in 2015. Go here for a romance reader's detailed autopsy of the book, and please, for the love of God, don't get this book new.

e: formatting changes

Pththya-lyi fucked around with this message at 01:43 on May 26, 2018

Pththya-lyi
Nov 8, 2009

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wheatpuppy posted:

Harlequin has a series for *everything*.

They had a NASCAR series

https://www.fictiondb.com/series/harlequin-nascar~13244.htm

Pththya-lyi
Nov 8, 2009

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You should send those screenshots to Stupid Comics

Pththya-lyi
Nov 8, 2009

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Gutter Phoenix posted:

Oh, and we need to talk about Night Cat:



I will do an effort post about that in the near future...

Mister Kitty of Stupid Comics did a 2-part write-up of Night Cat, which you can find here and here. Night Cat's full album can be heard here. You can also see the "real" Night Cat, Jacqueline Tavarez (AKA Jacqueline Love) as Rosie in Lloyd Kaufman's 1996 masterpiece Tromeo and Juliet and in several adult films.

Pththya-lyi
Nov 8, 2009

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La Brea Carpet posted:

Crochet with LaVey

Scrapbook with Satan

Pththya-lyi
Nov 8, 2009

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A LITTLE
OLD
BY
AMANDA

GIRL IN
BOSTON
M. DOUGLAS

Business and Social Forms encyclopedia owns bones

Pththya-lyi
Nov 8, 2009

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All I know is a lot of the Australian Sign Language signs are funny, like the one for Italy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BtJ0CJ87rM

Pththya-lyi
Nov 8, 2009

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Hope Rides Again is a sequel:

Pththya-lyi
Nov 8, 2009

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At least saying "they were really good at music" doesn't require you to produce actual good music. There's a lot of authors who try to portray genius writers, but the in-text examples of the genius writer's genius writing all suck.

Take Cameron "Buck" Williams, the award-winning journalist from Tim Lahaye and Jerry Jenkin's Left Behind series:

quote:

To say the Israelis were caught off guard, Cameron Williams had written, was like saying the Great Wall of China was long.

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Pththya-lyi
Nov 8, 2009

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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:

This sounds like it could be adorable :3:

Road trip romances are fun light reads. There's a built-in external conflict - "We have to get from Point A to Point B within a time limit" - that's important to the characters while being low-stakes enough to avoid stressing the reader out. There's lots of possible scenarios the couple can encounter, giving them plenty of opportunities to show their character and bond with each other. And because it's a genre romance, you already know the ending is going to be happy. If you're new to romance, why not give one a shot?

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