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August 8, 2008 12:46 PM   RSS feed for this thread Subscribe

We all know about pulp fiction. But how about some trash?

Discovered via the awesomely weird backstory to MythMaker's FPP.
posted by scrump (16 comments total) 5 users marked this as a favorite

I love it.
posted by Astro Zombie at 12:55 PM on August 8, 2008


oh that's cool, I thought it was gonna be (seeing only the secondary headline) about John Edwards, but still...
posted by dawson at 1:01 PM on August 8, 2008


Awesome.

There's a pretty vast field of ignored trash literature in America as well. I read a lot of trash in elementary school and junior high that I'd love to re-find/ read about. Some of them, I can't find mention on the net of at all.

For instance, I am certain I read a spy/adventure novel in which the main character was trained to be a killer by wrestler Captain Lou Albano. The Internet seems to think I'm making this up, but I am not.

I was also a fan of the awful .357 Vigilante novels, which I have since learned were penned by a college student.

But most of all I liked the Doc and Raider Westerns, published by Playboy Press. They alternated gunfights with ridiculous sex scenes, and I could check them out from the local library.
posted by Bookhouse at 1:09 PM on August 8, 2008


See, kids, because back in the 80s, it was actually difficult for twelve-year-old boys to find pornography.
posted by Bookhouse at 1:11 PM on August 8, 2008


Oh, it wasn't all that difficult...
posted by porn in the woods at 1:12 PM on August 8, 2008 [5 favorites]


Great site. When I was younger I enjoyed Edge: the Most Violent Westerns in Print. That blog looks like it might be fun if you're into this sort of thing.
posted by marxchivist at 1:16 PM on August 8, 2008


Oh, it wasn't all that difficult...
posted by porn in the woods at 1:12 PM

Speaking of that, what kids didn't have porn hidden in the woods near their house? I know that we had a playboy for a few months until it was stolen by the asshole in our group, and then we had a penthouse that lasted nearly a year.
posted by bolda at 1:22 PM on August 8, 2008


I dunno, any list of trash books that misses out on all 550 of the "Gor" books seems like it needs revision.
posted by jenkinsEar at 1:45 PM on August 8, 2008 [1 favorite]


Brings to mind The Harrad Experiment, the book you read but hid from your mother.
posted by Marie Mon Dieu at 1:57 PM on August 8, 2008 [1 favorite]


Another great source of trash lit, a blog by the man who ran the legendary Murder can be Fun zine.
posted by Bookhouse at 2:03 PM on August 8, 2008


Murder can be fun was AWESOME. I had all of those. That was how I came to get a subscription to Mortality and Morbidity Monthly. Read my fair share of books like this back then too. I remember a Bond ripoff starring a guy named Alonzo McTavish. Iirc, the title was "He Walked in Her Sleep".
posted by asavage at 3:17 PM on August 8, 2008


bolda, you're not alone.
posted by lekvar at 3:59 PM on August 8, 2008


'Love was almost enough for them but it was murder that made the delicious difference'

Fantastic!
posted by johnj at 5:03 PM on August 8, 2008


Oh, Leonard!
posted by chuckdarwin at 6:49 PM on August 8, 2008


John Marr has a blog? My day has been made.
posted by telstar at 7:03 PM on August 8, 2008


Great stuff. (I just spent an hour there browsing, and came here to post it... damn you, scrump!)
posted by jack_mo at 8:14 AM on August 26, 2008


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