tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9995718.post1764893769757541819..comments2024-03-24T11:31:02.882-04:00Comments on Olman's Fifty: 4. Iceman 6 - Canadian Kill by Joseph NazelOlmanFeelyushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17521657876810568251noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9995718.post-2454468630504748022011-01-31T23:05:23.738-05:002011-01-31T23:05:23.738-05:00I just got the latest issue of The Paperback Fanat...I just got the latest issue of The Paperback Fanatic magazine in the mail from the UK and lo there was a nice little piece in there on Holloway House and Joseph Nazel.<br /><br />It doesn't sound like the writer was able to get a ton of the HH books but he writes a similar history as you gave. I guess the publication of Iceberg Slim's Pimp was the turning point from them being a softcore sleaze publisher to being more of a blaxploitation one.Jason Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03669997643023511165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9995718.post-385821861908903782011-01-11T11:40:45.264-05:002011-01-11T11:40:45.264-05:00IIRC those 80s paperbacks by Donald Goines were Ho...IIRC those 80s paperbacks by Donald Goines were Holloway House. A quick search on ebay shows that in the 60s HH was more of a sleaze publisher a la Beacon Books with titles like Honolulu Madam. Then the 70s titles seem to be African American:<br /><br />Twenty Miles To Terror by Eddie Stone<br /><br />"It was the end of a long, hot summer that had produced seething tension and gut-level fear. A federal district judge had ordered the county to integrate its schools. As it had in cities throughout America, that order meant that hundreds of thousands of children would have to be put on buses and transported across the city in an attempt to achieve racial balance. The emotions and passions of parents throughout the school district are enflamed as children become the innocent victims . . . pawns in the games played by effete politicians. Jimmy Ray Henderson, the school's star quarterback, believes in 'the great experiment' and volunteers to be bussed along with his younger sister. But when the child is almost killed in the charred wreckage of a fiery protest, he realizes that they have all become cogs in the madness known as busing and wide open to the cunning and dangerous promoters of a race war!"Jason Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03669997643023511165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9995718.post-36898689975179656042011-01-11T08:51:54.250-05:002011-01-11T08:51:54.250-05:00Thanks for mentioning the depiction of Canada, as ...Thanks for mentioning the depiction of Canada, as brief and generic as it was. I'd forgotten to write about that. It's that period when Montreal was seen as this cool city but without any actual knowledge or detail of the reality.<br /><br />I'm quite sure the other books focus on his sweet Vegas "Oasis".OlmanFeelyushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17521657876810568251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9995718.post-14471443578689173202011-01-10T21:42:24.404-05:002011-01-10T21:42:24.404-05:00I read Canadian Kill this past summer, all the whi...I read <i>Canadian Kill</i> this past summer, all the while thinking that I might be the last to do so for quite some time. Not true! <br /><br />Much as I appreciated the depiction of Canada - particularly "the glorious city, Montreal, in the Quebec Province of Canada", what I really wanted was more about Iceman's Las Vegas "Oasis". Equal parts brothel, amusement park and luxury resort, it reminds one of Futureworld... but without the killer robots.Brian Busbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04120341319506205062noreply@blogger.com