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Quasit 20h ago

Quasit's Daily Book Recommendations: "Nuts" (1979) by Gahan Wilson

I just realized that yesterday was the thirtieth day since I started doing this! Time flies. ☺️

This is one of my "secret lore" books; my oldest friend introduced me to it when I was in my early teens. He also introduced me to "The Young Ones", "Young Lust Magazine" (it's a parody), and a LOT of comic books. He ended up working at Marvel and DC later on, although not at the same time.

"Those of you who remember how great it was to be a little kid, gang, don't •remember• how it was to be a little kid..."

Drawn and written by the brilliant Gahan Wilson, this book is one of the most accurate representations of what childhood was really like that I've ever seen. Which is probably why it's also the funniest.

The Kid (as he's referred to) is an ordinary kid with the usual experiences. His parents don't understand. His friends (some of them, at least) are idiots. And he WANTS things so desperately much. Toys, and candy, and comic books...

One of the things I particularly love about "Nuts" are the magazine, book, and comic book titles—literally the titles and back covers of the various books that sometimes appear. They're •incredibly• funny. "What secret power did this man possess?"

Individual strips of "Nuts" appeared in National Lampoon during their golden era. The book was rare; I treasured my copy. Luckily you can borrow it for free from the Internet Archive. And there are PDFs of it out on the high, seas, too. I'm sure the Kid would understand.

https://archive.org/details/nuts0000wils_q2w6

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Kaleidoscope Romance 1d ago

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Kaleidoscope Romance 1d ago

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Quasit 1d ago

Quasit's Daily Book Recommendations:
"The Puppet Masters" (1951) by Robert A. Heinlein.

The Puppet Masters is, arguably, THE classic mind-controlling-aliens-invade story (if anyone has another candidate to suggest, please do). It might also be the •first• one, as far as I know. The Titans are small parasites that control their hosts (human and otherwise) through physical contact, most often at the top of the spine just below the neck. They reproduce extremely rapidly, and soon possess an extremely large percentage of the population of Earth—large enough that the protagonist, Sam, calls it a "saturation" point, and the Titans actually drop the masquerade in the areas that they control.

Sam is an agent for a mysterious agency that serves the President. When he first encounters the Titans, he's with his boss (the head of the agency) and another agent: a beautiful redhead that's an obvious representation of Heinlein's wife Virginia.

The invasion by the Titans is an existential threat to the human race, and turns into quite an exciting story. But unusually for Heinlein, it contains some serious plot holes.

Rather than discuss them here, I'll make a comment with a content warning. There will be a lot of spoilers. So if you want to read the book first, you can come back to the comment after. It's not that long a book.

And it's available free for borrowing from the Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/bwb_P9-DGG-992

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