The first part of this is a plausible answer to the question “When Will There Be Good News?”

Hope you’re on the way and in the air soon!

Like the in-joke that a bar in this novel is described as having coasters promoting "a German beer called DAB."

DAB is "Dortmunder Actien Brauerei."

At least he's Buster Kitten and not Klaus Kitty?

*Of course* he likes the Flashman books, but I wish I did not know this.

Bloomberg had a piece on this as well. If you didn't know anything about Epstein and saw the list, you'd correctly assume the purchaser was both an autodidact and a sex addict.

Though I admit it's disconcerting seeing favorite works of literature and escapism on a pedophile's reading list.

You might enjoy this? www.youtube.com/watch?v=om04...

Both US and UK release.

Already sold out in 4K on Arrow US website, but Zavvi and Diabolik still have...

Don't think it's live on Orbit DVD yet

!!!!

I don't get to the store often enough (I live in Boston and only have a car if I visit my parents in central MA), but every time I go, I walk away with a stack of books I couldn't reasonably expect to find anywhere else.

I know the feeling. Though having access to the Harvard library has cut down the number of books I actually *purchase,* which is nice.

Of course not!

It opens with a single shot of cows that lasts almost eight minutes.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7rN...

So you will not be watching the seven-hour adaptation immediately after?

Or David Morrell writing the novelization of at least one Rambo sequel.

The original First Blood novel, incidentally, ended with Rambo dying!

Donald Westlake's Adios, Scheherazade has the protagonist watch the John Boorman film Point Blank and reflect on the Lee Marvin character's motivations.

Point Blank was based on a book Westlake published under a pseudonym.

In Michael Connelly's The Narrows, Clint Eastwood attends the funeral of the character he played in Blood Work, since he made the film in the Connelly universe too.

At least when I visited, the tour guide was a Gorey cousin!

The hero Bumbles through a plot which Hinges on an unlikely coincidence.