The Tiki paperback cover art thread - General Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Thu, Jun 24, 2010 4:01 PM That is a VERY original night stand book, I say ! Noting the contrast between the chaste British South Pacific cover above (I am assuming it is) and the American versions, I wanna put forth this theory: While American pulp publishers were cigar-chomping choleric types in rolled up shirt sleeves who would foam at their mouth if a cover did not have enough sex, their European counterparts seemed to be banking more on Adventure themes for men, and Romance for women. Of course the level of sex had to do with the fact if it was literature, or if it was porn prose --not to say that classics like Maugham and Conrad didn't get the sex treatment in the transition from hardcover to paperback, as seen previously.

That is a VERY original night stand book, I say !

Noting the contrast between the chaste British South Pacific cover above (I am assuming it is) and the American versions, I wanna put forth this theory:

While American pulp publishers were cigar-chomping choleric types in rolled up shirt sleeves who would foam at their mouth if a cover did not have enough sex, their European counterparts seemed to be banking more on Adventure themes for men, and Romance for women. Of course the level of sex had to do with the fact if it was literature, or if it was porn prose --not to say that classics like Maugham and Conrad didn't get the sex treatment in the transition from hardcover to paperback, as seen previously.

Post #538748 by bigbrotiki on Thu, Jun 24, 2010 4:01 PM