Patrick Sean Tomlinson / @stealthygeek / "Torque Wheeler" / @RealAutomanic / Kempesh / Padawan v2.5 - "Conservative" sci-fi author with TDS, armed "drunk with anger management issues" and terminated parental rights, actual tough guy, obese, paid Quasi, paid thousands to be repeatedly unbanned from Twitter

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The fucking cancer man decided to focus on fucking mersh.
He's getting the Shit Rat treatment. Just when Jim wants to make fun of him, an even bigger sperg grabs the spotlight.

The sperg in this case is a stroked out cat thief who sided with the satanic pedos Jim was arguing with. But it's not like Fat Rick has any shortage of detractors making content on him. He'll be fine.
 
It’s just so devoid of charm of passion. It’s literally just a guy with a spaceman gun. I have no look into the work the hog has created, nor do I feel the need to find out. It is indicative of his lack any usable imagination. They say “don’t judge a book by its cover” but they didn’t prepare for actual slop like this.
I used to buy used sci-fi in the way home on the bus like a poor when I transferred next to a used book store.

There was two kinds of sci-fi in the bargain trash bin (0.25$) - ones with generic covers that at least had some resemblance to something described in the story, and those with none.

Usually the ones with a semblance were a bit better because it indicates that they hired the cover artist after reading the book and at least giving him some direction; the others were just assigned “random spaceship/spacetits/spaceman” art from the collection they no doubt had.

But not always. I remember one polish one that was exceptionally pedo (ephebes start howling) - let’s see if I can find it - Lord Conrad by Frankowski. Kinda weird shit now that I think about it.
 
That brings back memories. I forgot about stripping covers from the books that didn't sell.
I was wondering if anyone would know what I was talking about. You'd occasionally see the coverless books for nearly nothing. Even for nearly nothing they weren't worth it. Literal throwaways. Sometimes they were the result of overprinting but I'd still rather have paid for one with a cover than one that would be embarrassing even to have on the shelf.
 
The pests managed to find a twitterer with worse grammar than Pat. Cue the cryposting.
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Pat's aren't the kind of books that end up in small used bookstores, though. After a couple months collecting dust in a spinner rack they get their front covers ripped off and sent back to the publisher and then pulped (unless the low-rent bookseller cheats).
Why strip the covers, I don’t get the point of doing that.
 
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Why strip the covers, I don’t get the point of doing that.
Dunno if it's the same with books but my sister used to work in a newsagents that sold comics. Unsold comics used to have their covers stripped and sent back for some reason (refund, sales figure, who knows). Either way, it was much less freight charge and hassle just to send the cover vs the whole book.
 
Either way, it was much less freight charge and hassle just to send the cover vs the whole book.
It was proof they had destroyed the item as a viable sellable item. In fact, many vendors did sell these for a pittance, although they were usually contractually obligated to destroy them. Obviously nobody would pay more than something like a quarter for them, so it was pretty scroungy to do that.
 
Dunno if it's the same with books but my sister used to work in a newsagents that sold comics. Unsold comics used to have their covers stripped and sent back for some reason (refund, sales figure, who knows). Either way, it was much less freight charge and hassle just to send the cover vs the whole book.
It's also why you'd see a lot of books that read on the first page 'Do not buy this without the cover and report all sales to the publisher' or some such.
 
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