--- Mario Taboada <
matrxtech@yahoo.com> wrote:
> <<There's a non-crime Donald Westlake called
"Ordo",
> based
> on Marilyn Monroe's first husband (when she
was
> unknown), a
> sailor. It's more of a
> "how-did-the-person-I-knew-become-this-person?"
than
>
> anything else, but it's terrific.>>
>
> It's terrific, but it's been reprinted recently
in
> the
> Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction. I'd rather
have
> something
> never reprinted before, or at least not in
the
> recent past.
I completely agree with this. I ordered Pulp Masters and look
forward to it's arrival, though I already have the Westlake
and the readily available Spillane. I also agree with Bill
that it's worth the price of admission for the Whittington
alone, hence my purchase.
If you're going to reprint some novelettes that are already
out there, how about one that has previously only been
reprinted in a limited edition? I'm thinking of Fredric
Brown's The Case of the Dancing Sandwiches.
It's only natural to assume that one pulp anthology will
reach the same audience as another. Why tread the same groud
and leave the reader with something he/she already has when
there is so much material out there yet to be reissued? Maybe
it's a matter of the Westlake name selling copies.
Anyway, enough of my gripes. When Gorman & Greenberg put
something together, it's always worth the dough.
ambrosehunter
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