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Skriven 2005-09-05 08:08:58 av Greg Sears (3:633/104)
     Kommentar till en text av Heather Lennox
Ärende: F unny
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Hey, I like literature and everything, but that doesn't mean I'm going
to read it.  When I'm looking at a paperback I expect to be grabbed by
the blurb on the back cover, and quotes from 90-year-old literature
professors about how this is an exciting new translation don't really do
it for me.

That's why I suggest publishers lie a little, to try and stimulate
sales.  Here's what the blurbs describing these classics should say:

Ulysses: Four-time Bova award winning sci-fi novelist James Joyce takes
us to strange new worlds in his latest epic.  The starship Ulysses was
supposed to be mankind's life boat away from a dying Earth… but when its
onboard computer developed "streaming consciousness" it seemed to have
different plans!  Now, Captain Richard Dublin finds himself trapped
onboard, hurtling towards the edge of the galaxy!  Can he penetrate the
Ulysses' defenses and turn the ship around in time to save himself… and
the earth?!?  "James Joyce is the greatest living science fiction author
today." — Sci-Fi Weekly.

War and Peace: From the screenwriters of the hit TV show comes this
first exciting Law & Order novel!  Former District Attorney Ben Stone
has gone into private practice, and taking on a case involving a murder
on an airforce base seems like a routine assignment.  But twists and
turns abound, and his investigations with streetwise private eye Mike
Logan soon lead all the way back to New York… and District Attorney Jack
McCoy!  (Watch for these upcoming Law & Order novels: Crime and
Punishment, Sense and Sensibility, and Pride and Prejudice.)

Charge of the Light Brigade:  When brilliant scientist Doctor Jonathan
Bright and his team stepped into the prototype photon chamber they
expected to perform a routine experiment.  Instead, accidental exposure
to mysterious "ultra-photons" left them changed -- masters of light,
from the infrared to the ultraviolet.  They had become… the Light
Brigade!  But can even their amazing photon powers be enough to thwart
the strange invaders from a black hole who plan to plunge earth into
permanent darkness?!?

Slaughterhouse Five:  Jake Chestly is a green beret falsely convicted of
murder.  Cherise Profunde is a black widow who lures husbands to their
deaths with her irresistible sensuality.  Roy "The Brick" Waszinski is a
professional wrestler on the run from gamblers.  And the Mearson twins
are a pair of sociopaths with genius IQs who kill for the intellectual
challenge.  When eccentric billionaire Jackson Serge brings together
this brilliant group of maladjusted loners he creates more than just a
team… he creates the Slaughterhouse Five!

H.A.M.L.E.T.: The Herrier-deployed Attack Military Laser Equipment Team
is always ready to defend America's shores against tin-plated despots
and madmen, but when a splinter group of ex-K.G.B. agents seizes
Elsinore Airbase and its cache of biological weapons the team faces
their greatest challenge!  Can they nullify the terrorists before
General Fortinbras is forced to call in a nuclear strike?  And what is
the secret agenda of secret-ops agents Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
"Bill Shakespeare captures the realities of special-forces operations
more authentically than anyone else writing today." —Oliver North.


Cheers,
       __o          o__      o__      o__      o__     There's one
     _ \<,_        _.>/ _   _.>/ _   _.>/ _   _.>/ _   in every
    (@)/ (@)      (@) \(@) (@) \(@) (@) \(@) (@) \(@)  crowd....
...I C E-man.

... Here's some fun:  Walk into an antique shop and say, "What's new?!?"

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