Each week, the pop culture website Pop-A-Looza shares a post from my vast 'n' captivating Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) archives. This week's shared post travels back to the days before home video was commonplace, and remembers the joy of reading paperback novelizations of favorite films: "Read The Movie."
"Read The Movie" was originally part of my sporadic film-appreciation series Lights! Camera! REACTION! My Life At The Movies. The inaugural edition of LCR! in March of 2017 was a look back at the first films I recall seeing when I was a little kid in the 1960s. Since then, the series has looked at superhero movies (with a sidebar on the 2017 Justice League movie, a film I apparently enjoyed more than anyone else did), rock 'n' roll movies, a few of my favorite films, and the movies I saw in 2019. Going out to see a movie? Ah, those were the days...! Although not specifically part of the Lights! Camera! REACTION! series, I also did a little song and dance about what I called "the Citizen Kane of Herman's Hermits pastiche movies," Ripped starring Norman's Normans, and a summary of 5 great movie songs from films I either didn't like or never saw.
The recollection of reading paperback novels based on films dovetails with my life-long fascination with books. Just the other day I wrote about my attempt to cut back on the sheer size of my book collection, and I've previously written about the superpulp paperbacks I loved as a teen. The subject of pulp superheroes also extends into separate pieces about the hardcover book The Pulps and my first exposures to Doc Savage and The Shadow. I'll be getting around to a piece about Tarzan...soon. Definitely soon. I have also written some professional pulp myself. Finally, a couple of supplements to my ongoing cover graphics galleries included some books: Paperbacks And Rock Mags and Superpulp Paperbacks And Rock 'n' Roll 45s. See? I'm a Renaissance junk culture guy!
But the subject at hand this week is paperback novels adapting featuring films: "Read The Movie" is this week's Boppin' Pop-A-Looza.
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Carl's writin' a book! The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1) will contain 134 essays about 134 tracks, each one of 'em THE greatest record ever made. An infinite number of records can each be the greatest record ever made, as long as they take turns. Updated initial information can be seen here: THE GREATEST RECORD EVER MADE! (Volume 1).
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