Dr. Frank's What's-it

I have a great problem with this. I mean, being Irish, I am greatly offended by the author's confusion and amalgamation of Leprechauns, Elves and Gnomes. Oh and I guess the Nazis too.

What a cute little leprechaun!!

I like covers from the old men's adventure magazines, especially in the days before Playboy launched in the early 1950's. There is a thick hardback book titled "It's a Man's World" put out by Feral House from a few years ago that has hundreds of examples that are laugh out loud funny.

zaphod: i think the nazis did experiments to combine leprechauns, elves, and gnomes.

In the spirit of your books' covers, I suggest that this is the one chosen to deface for King Dork, Approximately.

"Carefully-laid horror" is a pretty good compliment.

Was my comment removed because it was seen as anti-Semitic? 'Cause part of my family is Jewish, so that's kind of funny and wrong.

I used to work in a library and once came across a romance novel entitled, The Reluctant Viking.

The Reluctant Viking--pretty spectacular. And about this cover. YES--I have to agree.

I may be showing my age here but the cover of this book reminds me of the hundreds of "choose your own adventure" type books that I read when I was a kid. Did anybody else just absolutely love those things?

I'm right there with you, Zaphod. You should check out this guy's books.

http://girlsareprettyforever.blogspot.com/

No Sarah, it wasn't removed on purpose. I'm just trying to batch-delete all the spam comments and sometimes real ones get caught in the batches. Sorry about that.

I found it in the junk file and restored it.

spam!

that has to be up there as best book cover ever.

i am not a robot.

Great cover - it reminds me of an idea I developed after repeatedly being told by hippy types that the reason for Hilter invading Russia was to get his hands on Russian hemp, which he knew he'd need in order to win the war. Anyway, the idea was a comic book where the intrepid heroes encounter a lost unit of Nazi soldiers deep in the Siberian wilderness. This unit was sent to secure the Russian hemp but became lost in the wilds. Of course, they do not know that WWII is over. Over the intervening years, the unit's unwavering focus on finding this hemp and years spent lost has resulted in a shift in their thinking - a pot leaf has replaced the swastika on their uniforms. In place of Hitler, the soldiers are devoted to Marijuana and almost worship it - perhaps having experimented with its use when they have encountered small amounts. Maybe it's not as good of an idea as Nazi leprechauns but I think Pot Nazis still sound very scary!

WOW--you should definitely write that novel. And now I'm going to have to read this blog more often, because obviously interesting things happen here.

I'm trying but I can't think of a better one.