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Commented on <i>Sesame Street</i> does Feist's iPod Nano song
I saw Feist's show in Berkeley last night, and in the middle of "1-2-3-4" she looked out into the crowd and sang something like (this is from memory): There's some guy and he's waving, An iPod Nano, Which will follow...
Commented on Orwell's 1984 as a pulp novel
I remember this cover - I saw it in my junior high school library way back in 1970! There was a rack that carried some paperback books, and it was one of them. Who knows how they came by it,...
Commented on Home computing, circa 1970
I was in 10th grade in 1970, and my school had exactly the same computer set-up as this family: teletype terminal with punched-paper tape reader/writer, telephone cradle modem, and a link to a General Electric mainframe computer at Duke University....

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Darth Obvious commented on Orwell's 1984 as a pulp novel
Ahhhh memories, I got a copy of this edition at a used bookstore for 10 cents in 1966. I had read the hardcover version, but I could not pass up such a wonderful cover. I swear it had nothing to do with the fact the woman looked like a spooky poetess/waitress working at a coffeehouse I hung out at that time....
sachablow commented on Orwell's 1984 as a pulp novel
1984 in vietnamese with a French language preface: http://www.underbahn.net/0977422453.html Wild!...
BizarroPippy commented on Orwell's 1984 as a pulp novel
Do it to Julia! which one will you be? I...
Teresa Nielsen Hayden commented on Orwell's 1984 as a pulp novel
Bender @11:Reminds me of Tom Ewells occupation in The Seven Year Itch. He worked for a pulp publisher and sexied up Little Women for example.When you do it to the text as well as the package, the term is "impurgation."They still do this on a more subtle level.Only insofar as they do it to every book that gets published. Anonymous @25, that's not a pulpified reissue; it's the original paperback edition, with a James Avati cover....
Joel Schlosberg commented on Orwell's 1984 as a pulp novel
There was a New York Times article from 1995 by Julie Lasky that discussed this cover: And so it was that dozens of classic novels appeared in packages that were cartoonish, sordid or merely absurd. George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-four" assumed its paperback life in 1950 as a tale of "Forbidden Love ... Fear ... Betrayal.".... Borrowing a trick from mystery novels (in 1950, 26 percent of all paperbacks published were mysteries), Alan Harmon, the artist of "Nineteen Eighty-four," scattered details of the narrative across the cover like clues. There's Big Brother and the Ministry of Truth, the red sashes of...

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