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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2015 20:16:48 GMT
I have the 60's Paperback issues of them but i know the one you mean they are hard backs arnt they?
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Post by Chris on Sept 24, 2015 20:18:36 GMT
Off topic but I can't help myself - Flemings grandson now runs the Glencoe ski/bike centre. Lovely fella.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2015 20:51:48 GMT
One of my hobbies is collecting SF Paperbacks from the '60's. It's Leslie Charteris 'The Saint' books from the late 1920s onwards that I collect. Really excellent reads, right up there with Fleming but were never as successful. Forget all the TV series, which were crap. Here's mine Martin 1967/68 editions. Still have a lot missing..  |
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Post by MartinT on Sept 24, 2015 21:18:43 GMT
I have the 60's Paperback issues of them but i know the one you mean they are hard backs arnt they? I have many paperbacks but a few early hardbacks like the first novel Meet the Tiger. |
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Post by MartinT on Sept 24, 2015 21:20:13 GMT
I'll check but I don't think I have The Saint on the Spanish Main.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2015 6:49:51 GMT
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Post by MartinT on Sept 25, 2015 19:13:10 GMT
The Saint Closes the Case and The Saint Meets His Match are my two favourites, and The Saint in London is the funniest, but they're all great reads.
Thanks for the list.
I take it that his car, a Hirondel, was made up and never existed?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2015 20:01:52 GMT
Yeh its a fictional car.. When they did the TV episodes it was a White Volvo 'P1800'
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Post by MartinT on Sept 26, 2015 21:22:51 GMT
I remember the various films and TV series but they were nothing really like the books. The film with Val Kilmer was a travesty.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2015 21:39:53 GMT
I have the complete Monocrome & Complete Colour DVD sets of the Roger Moore Saint TV series. Great they are but as you say different.. Now i was only saying to the wife tonight that probably one of the things i disliked was making a TV series out of Dr Who.. I have the two Movies with Peter cushing: 'Daleks, Invasion Earth 2150A.D' & 'Dr Who And The Daleks'they were great but i can't be doing with the TV series..
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Post by ChrisB on Sept 26, 2015 22:36:50 GMT
I found a copy of this on my sisters bookshelves about 10 yrs ago and have been wanting a copy ever since. Found one and have just finishec it.
The Praìrie Traveler, it was pretty mùch the de facto handbook and guide for people who passed over the Oregon Trail.
"Go west, young man!" and all that.
('scuse the capitals)
THE PRAIRIE TRAVELER.
A HAND-BOOK FOR OVERLAND EXPEDITIONS.
WITH MAPS, ILLUSTRATIONS, AND ITINERARIES OF THE PRINCIPAL ROUTES BETWEEN THE MISSISSIPPI AND THE PACIFIC.
BY RANDOLPH B. MARCY,
CAPTAIN U. S. ARMY.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT.
NEW YORK:
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,
FRANKLIN SQUARE
1859.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2015 9:48:07 GMT
Anything to do with the Genesis track " Deep In The Motherload" from 'And Then There Were Three'? It was a song based on something to do with the Gold Rush {Around that date Chris} As you know the lyric "Go West Young Man" is in the song.
Just a thought.
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Post by ChrisB on Sept 27, 2015 10:23:35 GMT
It is, isn't it?
I think the phrase comes from before the goldrush though, the full thing was "Go west, young man and grow up with the country".
There was a film called that too, not to mention the accursed Village People and Pet Shop Boys song!
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Post by ChrisB on Sept 27, 2015 11:22:29 GMT
American Radio Then & Now: Stories of Local Radio from the Golden Age. I haven't read the full book yet but have just enjoyed the preview on the Amazon website. link
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Post by MartinT on Sept 27, 2015 12:16:30 GMT
The Daleks have featured too many times in recent series, they have lost their power to be scary.
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Post by Slinger on Sept 27, 2015 15:03:07 GMT
The Daleks have featured too many times in recent series, they have lost their power to be scary. I sense a tear in the space time continuum.  |
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Post by MartinT on Sept 27, 2015 18:09:13 GMT
LOL - that can be read two different ways  |
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Post by ChrisB on Sept 27, 2015 19:11:24 GMT
Dr Who always did that to me too.......reduced me to tears, that is.
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Post by Guest on Sept 29, 2015 14:46:13 GMT
Henry Cecil - No Bail for the Judge.
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Post by Chris on Oct 4, 2015 3:47:18 GMT
Mike Tyson - Undisputed truth. Very,very good. Utterly honest and highly insightful.
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