tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post6860716945381261137..comments2024-03-19T02:26:11.207-05:00Comments on Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: John D. and MeAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-83234737513051065452016-04-29T16:57:59.781-05:002016-04-29T16:57:59.781-05:00Hey, Lee Child ain't from Florida. I used to ...Hey, Lee Child ain't from Florida. I used to get those Pandora catalogs regularly. Don't know if I ever bought anything, though. I got a copy of the first printing of Weep for Me from someone who read I didn't have it and sent it to me. I found the second printing in a bookstore in Washington, D.C., when I was at the Bouchercon there in 1980.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-28352013286729924792016-04-29T15:44:36.338-05:002016-04-29T15:44:36.338-05:00Bill, you would have had to relocate to Florida to...Bill, you would have had to relocate to Florida to get the call to write a tribute. I have all the JDMs except Weep For Me. At this week's Children's Hospital Book Market in Winnipeg, I spotted the former owner of Pandora Books on the North Dakota/Manitoba border going through the table of older paperbacks. He was one the biggest dealers in paperbacks before the Internet and I would be surprised if you didn't get his catalogs. Somehow he always gets to the paperbacks first even though he no longer admits to being a dealer. I asked him the usual question, Did you find that John D. I need? He had not. He was the person who explained to me why this book is so hard to find. Maybe someday.Kent Morganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09834261948994921554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-82303996263481187992016-04-29T11:10:50.559-05:002016-04-29T11:10:50.559-05:00Excellent post. My first JDM was YOU LIVE ONCE, w...Excellent post. My first JDM was YOU LIVE ONCE, when I was about 15, and for some reason I wasn't immediately hooked; that didn't happen until about 8 years later, when a good friend recommended the Travis McGee books. That did the trick, and over the years I've gotten all JDM's books*, quite a few in first printings, some in hard cover, and I've re-read most of them twice or more. Amazing writer, and I only wish I'd had the chance to meet him and tell him what his work meant to me.<br /><br />*Every one except WEEP FOR ME, for which I only have a photocopy. Not very good, compared with most of his other work, but still readable and instructive.Mike Stammnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-49578643968661037362016-04-29T07:18:30.043-05:002016-04-29T07:18:30.043-05:00Excellent post. A DEADLY SHADE OF GOLD was the fir...Excellent post. A DEADLY SHADE OF GOLD was the first JDM novel I read, bought new off the spinner rack at Lester's Pharmacy. I've been thinking lately that I ought to reread it.James Reasonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-21268407812732198622016-04-28T22:54:54.469-05:002016-04-28T22:54:54.469-05:00Very nicely done.Very nicely done.Don Coffinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07198988872512792834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-438631159821711382016-04-28T20:34:06.911-05:002016-04-28T20:34:06.911-05:00Great piece. The Herald-Trib missed out.Great piece. The Herald-Trib missed out.Kelly Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01752857506190488860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-85965954580999528472016-04-28T14:09:45.383-05:002016-04-28T14:09:45.383-05:00Great post, Bill . . . and I think I'll just s...Great post, Bill . . . and I think I'll just start signing my comments "John Duke".<br /><br />John Duke (formerly JohnD)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-35501079363542101772016-04-28T14:04:05.592-05:002016-04-28T14:04:05.592-05:00I've been lucky enough to meet Harlan Ellison ...I've been lucky enough to meet Harlan Ellison and be on a panel or two with him. He was a hero of mine back in the '50s when he first started publishing, and he's certainly gone on to greater fame than he had then. I doubt I'll ever tour his house, but I'm glad I got to meet him.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-9069215619963129992016-04-28T14:00:48.738-05:002016-04-28T14:00:48.738-05:00Lost opportunities. I'm kind of doing that now...Lost opportunities. I'm kind of doing that now with Harlan Ellison but the man had a stroke and I think the last thing he needs is giving me a guided tour of his house. But if I had a bucket list, that would be on there....Rick Ollermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02068917523381664001noreply@blogger.com