Saturday, January 04, 2014

December's Books

 

In Crab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen and Candy Stripe Nurses, the author did a wonderful job pulling together movie posters, photos, and interviews with many of the actors, writers, and directors who worked with Roger Corman over his long career. The King of the B movies produced horror movies, biker movies, girls in prison movies, you name it. He also brought the work of critically acclaimed European directors to the States. Wonderful anecdotes--William Shatner was shy about doing a nude scene with Angie Dickinson. Worth purchasing just for the reproductions of the movie posters.

Simple Dreams: a musical memoir by Linda Ronstadt
Through the Evil Days by Julia Spencer-Fleming
Crab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen and Candy Stripe Nurses: Roger Corman, king of the B-movies  by Chris Nashawaty
Dead Wrong by Connie Dial
Just One Evil Act by Elizabeth George
Murder at Gettysburg by Leslie Wheeler
Little Green by Walter Mosley
Darwin: portrait of a genius by Paul Johnson
The Cat, the Professor, and the Poison by Leann Sweeney
Worth More Dead and Other True Cases by Ann Rule
A Fete Worth than Death by Claudia Bishop
Robert B. Parker's Ironhorse by Robert Knott
Takedown Twenty by Janet Evanovich

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