Pulp Fiction Frodo: Too Hot to Sleep

[mechtild]

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Inspired by the wonderfully trashy book cover aussiepeach made for mariole ("the Ripper")'s birthday (visit her LJ to check it out - bwahahaha!), I decided to make the "Pulp Fiction Frodo" manip I'd been planning to do for weeks. I'd been saving it for a rainy day. (O.K. so it's not raining, it's snowing.)

I work at a library, right here in "Minnesota-nice" Duluth. Imagine my surprise when, unloading a bin of returned items, I saw this book. Enchanted by the cover art, I checked it out and asked my husband to scan it at work. What a treasure! (I just love campy book jackets.)

Actually, I had had no idea our library stocked this sort of thing, or that Harelquin published anything higher-rated than PG. Am I behind the times! Flipping [unerringly] to the sex scene, I would call Too Hot to Handle solidly "R." That it was should have come as no surprise, considering the naughtiness of the cover (just love the way his hand is situated).

If you are wondering, the blurb on the back says the story relates the late-night visits to the heroine's home by the handsome local police officer. Apparently, in this woman's town the police are not terribly busy.


ETA: Links to the cover of the original:

Front cover

Back cover



So....

Happy Birthday, Mariole:
Ripper Extraordinaire!



You made me do it....






~ Frodo Baggins feels the mercury (or something) rising in the Ripper's steamy new best-seller, Too Hot to Sleep....








ETA #2: I decided to add this manip to the Frodo Art Travesties album, even though the book cover from which this was made does not rank as Art.


~ Mechtild

Comments

[mechtild.livejournal.com]

Yeah, who is she, anyway, to have her hands on him, cosying her Intimate Parts up to his comely rear-end?

Actually, I think this cover is a stand-out (ha! - "stand-up, should I say?), even for its genre, in so strongly featuring the man. The woman's body is practically covered up by his. And his body is not even in profile, but facing the viewer, plainly revealing not only his physical contours (which is usual even in the profiles), but his response to being with her (the attitude of the hand). His face is by far the more prominent, too. Her face is nearly in complete shadow. It is the man's face, even in the original, that is being featured for the cover art's "reaction shot."

Although hot covers usually show the man's chest and arms, to show off his musculature,it's her face that is shown responding, usually looking rapturous. (Or they show them in profile, equally rapturous.)

Anyway, I am really pleased with the way this turned out. Again, thanks so much, Peachy, for posting your "Strumpette" cover (*choke*) for Mariole. If you hadn't I would not have been moved to open the necessary programs and go ahead and make this.