In a message dated 1/20/00 2:08:14 AM, rcollins at netlink.com.au writes:
<<Here in Aust, a series of novels by John Marsden, recount a band of teens taking on invaders from some unspecified (though obviously Indonesian) invasion, where the invaders are described variously as "scum", "vermin", "cancer", "filth"... It's like a serialised version of that D-grade anti-commie fantasia film called 'The Wolverines" or somesuch -- scout-boy, rural expertise wins out against people with funny accents.>>
I ran across quite a bit of alarming crap at a job I had at a used bookstore. At one point I re-organized the "Male Adventure" section. Interesting, the owner decided to change the name of the section to "Action Fiction" because, in his words "women can have adventures too." I was partial to the more honest genre appelation of 'sexist shit.' There's a series called "Afrikorps" which is the continuing adventures of a rag tag bunch of heroic white people in some kind of post-apocolyptic Africa, one about an SS officer's adventures after the war, all of which I threw into the abandoned vault under the sidewalk ajoining the storeroom. A series of low rent SF paperbacks about a post-apocolyptic US called (get this) The Amtrak Wars was so goofy and camp, despite the author's intentions, that I put it out on the shelf. Iceberg Slim's work got 'segregated' from this crap in the interest of maximizing sales. He's also not bad every once in a while. Has anybody read Iceberg Slim? I must admit that I buzzed through "Mama Black Widow" in a day and a half. Now, if I only had a day and a half. My apologies for rambling I guess that my point is that "The Turner Diaries" is not a unique book. Books of this sort are not very popular, at least not in Montclair, which is a bit like the Santa Cruz of NJ. mcapri