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Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Found this lovely @torbooks.bsky.social edition of Wells's The War of the Worlds. The wear and tear at the edges of the cover is part of the design.

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Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Somebody please tell @thr.com what "cult" means.

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Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm sorry, but I thought Bakker died years ago.

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Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Seen it so many times I can watch it in my head. Coincidentally, I just reread Goldman's Adventures in the Screen Trade, with its discussion of the film.

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Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A deliberately misleading blurb, or journalistic incompetence? It's so hard to tell these days.

Headline on a "Star Wars Galaxy FB page: "Lucasfilm Announces Star Wars Original Trilogy Remake for 50th Anniversary."

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Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I mean, just look at this paragraph (about boosters of the auteur theory and the way they wrote about Hitchcock). You gotta know the references to get what he's saying. And Goldman shows us the respect of assuming we do.

What they did in their writings was to elevate him. Let's say he was Ian Fleming before they began. Well, they didn't say he was John le Carre, they made him Graham Greene.

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Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Reconnecting with an old friend. The thing I like most about the book is this: it's written for people with some knowledge of the subject. Goldman drops terms and names (a parenthetical mention of Gore Vidal) with no supplemental explanation, assuming we know what he's talking about. He respects us.

William Goldman's classic Adventures in the Screen Trade.

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Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm pretty sure I'll never buy a product or take advice from someone who can't figure out how to attach that little microphone to their clothing.

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Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Our old friend Steven Grives (Alan Denson) makes an appearance as a baddie on Mission: Impossible 1988. #TheSandbaggers

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Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You know what I miss? The forty-plus years of performances John Belushi might have gifted us with.

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Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Apparently there are a bunch of websites that reproduce social media posts, then summarize them, and call that an article. That's just lazy.

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Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If only there were something newsworthy going on in Washington....

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Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I love the original Mission: Impossible (1966-73), but oh boy they did a lousy job of hiding their stunt people's faces.

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Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'd listen to that Booklist guy.

Booklist calls the QUARRY series "one perfect book after another" and QUARRY'S REUNION "an entirely appropriate finale to this touching story and to a long, hard life."

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Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This ad was on FB. Guy couldn't be bothered to proofread and correct the AI-generated misspellings.

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Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Apparently this was the first film for Stuart Margolin AND Robert Ito.

Poster for Women of the Prehistoric Planet (1966).

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Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Amazing book. So incredibly well executed.

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The Devil Takes You Home is only $1.99 everywhere! I could tell you it won the Stoker and Shirley Jackson awards and was an Edgar, Locus, Dragon, and Goodreads finalist, but I won’t. Instead, I’ll share my favorite 1-star reviews! www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B09N... bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

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Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

WHY ARE THEY ENGLISH-SUBTITLING TELEVISION COMMERCIALS THAT ARE ALREADY IN ENGLISH?

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Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It's terrific. You'll love it.

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Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Excerpt from an email I received today from a publicist. I've never heard of her, or the publisher, but somehow she knows I've read a horror novel recently.

"Hi david,

I hope your August is wrapping up nicely! Since you've read a horror leaning thriller recently, I'm flagging a debut novel in the same vein that you may love."

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Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Why is no one talking about Mr. Curry's delicious performance as King Chicken in Duckman?

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Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Funny how a lot of the news stories about this put the word offensive in quotation marks. As though there were any doubt the costume is offensive.

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Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I'd listen to that Booklist guy.

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Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

They had an ideal opportunity to make a terrific Bond spoof. They took the serious route instead. Bad decision.

Poster for O.K. Connery, starring Neil Connery and several familiar Bond movie actors.

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Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Now reading. Irwin Allen bought this and the similarly-themed The Glass Inferno, by Robinson and Scortia, so he could make The Towering Inferno. Stern's first novel, 1958's The Bright Road to Fear, won an Edgar Award.

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Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This post contains sax and violins. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Gotta love the Miskin Law commercial in which the lawyers sit around telling each other things they already know.

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Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I watched every episode of this show, first run. It was Must-See Bad TV.

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Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Reading The Secrets We Hide, by @karinslaughter.com, with an eye to reviewing in my newspaper column. As usual, it's very good.

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Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I see Tim Hortons is doing a Harry Potter promo. Is a name change to Terf Hortons next? Who's up for a boycott?

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Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Watching this on Tubi. Heard of it years ago, but hadn't seen it until now.

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Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Reading Mark Binelli's forthcoming biography of Martin Scorsese, Just a Shot Away, for a @ala-booklist.bsky.social review. A rich and revelatory life story, well told.

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Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I just read @andyrichter.co's wonderful Elf Unwrapped, co-written with @aaronkaro.bsky.social, publishing in November. It's a celebration of Elf (2003), a very interesting making-of, and just a hugely entertaining story.

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Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

It's a beautiful, lyrical, deeply moving story. In other words: fairly typical Claire North.

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Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Agreed with much enthusiasm.

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Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I love me some post-apocalyptic horror. Them, by W.H. Chizmar, ticks every box on a horror-lover's list. Terrifically terrifying.

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Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

@richardchizmar.bsky.social, I can't seem to find Billy on Bluesky. Let him know I'm really enjoying Them, if you get a chance? (In related news, I filed my @ala-booklist.bsky.social review of Killing the Boogeyman. Verdict: I likes it.)

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Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Reading The Taper Man by @nickharkaway.com for a @ala-booklist.bsky.social review. Espionage fiction the way it ought to be.

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Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Reading Hell on Wheels, a history of biker movies by @drstephencarver.bsky.social, for a review in @ala-booklist.bsky.social. Spoiler alert: it's a lot of fun.

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Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Another big-name writer, another misunderstanding of what begging the question means.

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