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Post by Guest on Jun 11, 2006 5:22:04 GMT -5
Hmm... My buddy says they get WORSE as the series as goes on, LOL. I picked up the 24th book of The Penetrator and it rocked. Picked up Destroyer #3 and it was great. The writing was clean, crisp and engaging on these and most of the The Executioner books I've read.
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Post by PMP Webmaster on Jun 11, 2006 18:48:20 GMT -5
Well, as can be seen here with a lot of the postings, Rosenberger's work is pretty much love it or hate it. I've yet to find people who are ambivilant about it.
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Post by Django The Bastard on Jun 26, 2006 17:21:08 GMT -5
Exactamundo PMP! If it's crisp, clean writing you are after, Rosenberger ain't it...no two ways about it...his writing is dense, thick, technically lacking in style and purple as all hell...so far over the top, it's back to the bottom again!
For myself...Billionaire Mission is one of the best...for those very elements, IMHO one of the BEST of WORST...so to speak...
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Post by minder125 on Sept 22, 2006 11:18:39 GMT -5
So thats what Tracker is about I saw a bunch at this one store I frequent. they all feature those goggle face covers. might have to check it out.
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Post by camellionfan on Oct 21, 2006 19:44:02 GMT -5
Hey guys. Great to see so many people that are fans of Richard Camellion. I have all 71 novels, and it wasn't easy. The 71st novel is Apocalypse. It was published when the Mack Bolan franchise (another favorite) started publishing SuperBolans. The Greenland Mystery #70 was the last "regular" size novel. I have been trying to find out info on Rosenberger, any that I find, I will share it.
Cheers
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Post by lucidreams318 on Dec 30, 2006 21:08:23 GMT -5
To the person who wanted to know more about Joe Rosenberger, I can tell you a few small things. I used to live across the street from him when I was a kid. We lived in a middle class neighborhood. He lived with a woman (not his wife I don't think...maybe his sister or a friend?) named Virginia. They were both very nice but he was of course kind of eccentric. He used to wear these tan jumpsuits (kind of like what an old time auto mechanic might wear). He would always suggest to me some prank I might pull on my mother for Halloween. One year he gave me this fake arm and leg which was suprisingly real looking, and told me to put them underneath her bed at just such an angle. Scared the crap out of my mom and worked actually many times over as I would put them in different places. I talked to him occasionally but I don't remember what about since he died when I was only 13 or so. He died from lung cancer. I remember him being a nice person. My mom knew what his books were about and she used to joke with my older brothers that he was actually the guy in his books and that being an "author" was just a cover. Haha.
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Post by englishteacherx on Jan 9, 2007 14:40:42 GMT -5
Wow! You need to post this information on the "Joesph Rosenberger: The Man, The Myth" thread. (Or alternately, one of the moderators can move it?) People will be thrilled to hear that you actually MET Joesph Rosenberger. He's the J. D. Salinger of pulp action novels.
Some questions:
What did he look like? Tall, short, thin, fat, bearded, clean cut, handsome, ugly? As your 13-year-old mind can recall, of course.
Did he seem to be well-off? Do you mind saying where you lived? I've always wondered how much money he could have made at that. . .
You may not, of course, been in a position to see, but did he have a lot of guns around his house? What kind of car did he have?
Since you say he died of lung cancer, I assume he smoked a lot.
Were you a fan of his books when you were young? I remember I started reading them when I was about 14, myself. . .
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Post by PMP Webmaster on Jan 19, 2007 21:24:30 GMT -5
Quick note - I can't move a single post to a different thread, just threads to different boards/forums, sorry.
This is some great information though, thanks for sharing Lucid!
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Post by karlos on Feb 4, 2008 10:20:14 GMT -5
I read somewhere recently that Rosenberger was "mentally ill", and not a particularly nice guy.
Personally, I find his stuff to be fantastically imaginative: "Cosmic Lord of Death"? How can you not love that?!
BTW, any of you guys ever read any of his Kung Fu feat. Mace books? I did read that he only wrote a few before someone else took over - anyone??
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Post by Django The Bastard on Feb 4, 2008 15:53:44 GMT -5
Welcome karlos! Yes, I've been luck to collect the entire Mace series...JRR wrote the first six with the seventh and last volume being written by someone I haven't been able to identify yet.
Well worth seeking out for the Death Merchant fan!
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