tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post9068813221968232356..comments2024-03-27T10:50:17.270-05:00Comments on Rough Edges: Forgotten Books: Taboo Thrills - Orrie HittJames Reasonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-32625062995396243962009-05-24T22:50:34.929-05:002009-05-24T22:50:34.929-05:00Great review! I consider Hitt to be the "poet of s...Great review! I consider Hitt to be the "poet of sleaze". Don't have any of the Novel editions, but I'll be looking for them now. And really enjoyed Rittsters response. Hope to read more about Hitt biography soon. Thanks!Ricky Lee Grovehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03588565441793716202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-71157828114706671842009-05-22T21:44:55.223-05:002009-05-22T21:44:55.223-05:00I can't imagine many people (make that men especia...I can't imagine many people (make that men especially) letting that cover and title get by them.pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-49693562256476929322009-05-22T14:46:41.088-05:002009-05-22T14:46:41.088-05:00Bravo! You now belong to an extremely small, but e...Bravo! You now belong to an extremely small, but elite group of esoteric and just outright strange people who've read this book. The other readers are probably all dead. Or they probably started reading it--naturally thinking the content would be different, according to the cover and publishers blurbs--and then, somewhere along page twenty-something, started ranting, "No t-ts! Where's the damn t-ts! I bought this book for the t-ts, not to read some goddamn tract about censorship!" Whereupon they most likely chucked Taboo Thrills into the nearest trash can.<br /><br />I just got my voice-activated software on Wednesday, so I'm still learning how to use it, but I should have it working smoothly by this weekend and should be able to finish the summary of Hitt's biography sometime next week.<br /><br />If you're looking for more of Hitt's books published by Novel, be careful, because I recently compared books with another Hitt fan who lives nearby, and it seems Novel was the one publisher who liked to reprint the same book a number of times, change the title, and still claim it was an original. I'll email you that list of titles when I send my summary. <br /><br />Love that Novel Books quote: "A Novel book is a Man's book!" The blurbs for the Novel books Orrie wrote under the pseudonym Kay Addams are even more amusing. From the back cover of The Secret Perversions of Kay Addams: "As you men know, Novel Books does not like lesbians--and thus does not like to publish books about them." They then proceed to tell you why they are publishing a book about "them". Nice marketing strategy. I wonder how well it worked.<br /><br />James, glad you stuck it out and worked your way up (down?) to the higher (lower?) echelons of the wacky world of Orrie Hitt.Rittsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08145597443811879849noreply@blogger.com