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dr_hermes
04 July 2009 @ 10:05 pm
Do you have to dress like that when doing puzzles?  
It sure seems like a lot of trouble to go, rather than my favorite old bathrobe and slippers on Sunday morning.



Lots of times I've picked up a mystery who doesn't even have a woman in the cast, yet the cover highlights some gorgeous babe who spent an hour on her hair and a fortune on her revealing outfit. (Either that, or the cover will display some gruesome slaughter that is only briefly alluded to in the story itself.) It's misleading and I don't care for the practice in either case, but it does work. This book wouldn't have jumped out at me if I was going through eBay searching for a puzzle book with sober, serious lettering and maybe a drawing of a pencil.
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[info]norda on July 5th, 2009 02:27 am (UTC)
Oh, my!
[info]dr_hermes on July 5th, 2009 02:41 am (UTC)
It's also an Infinity Cover, as the scene with the woman is the same as that on the magazine she's holding.

What would really kill me would be if she were doing the puzzles in ink...!
[info]t_guy on July 5th, 2009 11:03 am (UTC)
Talking of paperback covers and the like, I tripped o'er this earlier today and immediately thought 'I wonder if Doc Hermes knows of this?': http://www.pulpinternational.com/pulp/keyword/Adam.html
[info]dr_hermes on July 6th, 2009 01:16 am (UTC)
Whoa, let me bookmark that one. The guy has a different agenda than I do, and a more thorough approach, but I like most of his topics. Thanks again. My Lord, I have so much great reading material suggested by you guys.
[info]full_metal_ox on July 5th, 2009 05:13 pm (UTC)
Perhaps such an image also suggests Woman herself as, from the masculine perspective, the eternally fascinating riddle?
[info]stevegreen on July 6th, 2009 12:34 am (UTC)
Well, she has the answer to my conundrum.
[info]dr_hermes on July 6th, 2009 01:17 am (UTC)
Most of the time, when you solve an eternally fascinating riddle, you wish you'd left it a mystery.
[info]stevegreen on July 6th, 2009 01:43 am (UTC)
Hahhah.

I'm going to be on the East Coast in last August. Want to meet up?
[info]dr_hermes on July 7th, 2009 03:45 am (UTC)
Thanks, Steve, but I'm just not social any more. I seem headed for a life as recluse faster and faster.
[info]dozy81 on July 7th, 2009 07:23 pm (UTC)
I understand that feeling too well. It becomes easier just to say "no" instead of "yes" to things. The world can be big and wonderful, and I keep telling myself that starting tomorrow, inertia be damned, I will get into the middle of things and enjoy all manner of rich experiences.

Yup, that is what I keep telling myself, over and over...