Paperback 170: Award Books A248X (PBO, 1967)
- Title: A Korean Tiger
- Author: Nick Carter (who is also the main character...? and who is also, btw, a Backstreet Boy)
- Cover artist: Some McGinnis imitator
Yours for: $17
Best things about this cover:
- Bring me the floating head of Nick Carter! Oh, nevermind. It's right there.
- The disembodied head of Nick Carter thinks you're a swell-looking doll. {wink!}
- If the book is trying to suggest to me that that lady is "Korean," I challenge. She looks like Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, only with somewhat smaller boobs and no shirt.
- I like how she is taking a sidelong glance at the title, as if thinking "WTF?"
- How is it possible that no rapper has picked up the name "Killmaster?" That would be my handle for sure. That, or "Optimum Slim" (a name I derived from the cereal I eat every morning)
- Fake Korean Post-op Elvira Impersonator needs a refill, dammit!
Best things about this back cover.
- Text! Who doesn't like ... that?
- Oh my god, I am in love with this book - any book that features the word "slatternly" is hottt with three t's.
- I hope the "dark underbelly of Asia" is just some really hairy Laotian guy.
- Paragraph indentations are for suckas!
Page 123~
The wide green stare did not waver. Behind those basilisk eyes he thought he could detect a hint of something warmer. Desire? Plain old-fashioned lust? Was this creature really so human?
Oh please dear god don't let him be talking about the "Korean" woman. "Though she was Korean, she seemed oddly human."
~RP
P.S. this book is immaculate. As crisp and new and bright as the day it first hit the shelves. Maybe there's a tiny amount of scuffing, but it's quite negligible. Paperbacks rarely hold up this well.
