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dantastic's review
4.0
Bad Girls Need Love Too is a collection of covers of smut paperbacks from the 1960s. What more of a description do you need than that?
This book is almost 200 pages and I'd say maybe 20 have text on them. What little text that can be found is cheesy/smutty excepts from the novels. The rest are covers depicting women in varying states of undress. I could talk about the use of light and shadows or chiarascuro (which I know I did not spell right) but you know what you're getting into if you pick this book up. Fortunately, some great artists got their start illustrating smut paperbacks. There are some by Robert McGinnis and Robert Macguire, for example.
If you're into lurid pulp art, this is the book for you. I would like to read the following books based on the covers and/or titles. If you can find the images online, you'll immediately understand why:
Hotrod Sinners
Invasion of the Nymphomaniacs
Vagabond Virgin
He Kissed Her There
Satan was my Pimp
Sexy Psycho
Lingerie Ltd.
Satana
Satan's Harvest
Love Now, Pay Later
Hell's Harlot
Atomic Blonde
Satan's Daughters
Animal Broad
Women in Prison
Swingers in Danger
The Platinum Trap
Bad Girls Need Love Too is fun for the whole family, provided the whole family is into cover paintings from 60's smut novels. For more information, consult Bad Girls Need Love Too: the website.
This book is almost 200 pages and I'd say maybe 20 have text on them. What little text that can be found is cheesy/smutty excepts from the novels. The rest are covers depicting women in varying states of undress. I could talk about the use of light and shadows or chiarascuro (which I know I did not spell right) but you know what you're getting into if you pick this book up. Fortunately, some great artists got their start illustrating smut paperbacks. There are some by Robert McGinnis and Robert Macguire, for example.
If you're into lurid pulp art, this is the book for you. I would like to read the following books based on the covers and/or titles. If you can find the images online, you'll immediately understand why:
Hotrod Sinners
Invasion of the Nymphomaniacs
Vagabond Virgin
He Kissed Her There
Satan was my Pimp
Sexy Psycho
Lingerie Ltd.
Satana
Satan's Harvest
Love Now, Pay Later
Hell's Harlot
Atomic Blonde
Satan's Daughters
Animal Broad
Women in Prison
Swingers in Danger
The Platinum Trap
Bad Girls Need Love Too is fun for the whole family, provided the whole family is into cover paintings from 60's smut novels. For more information, consult Bad Girls Need Love Too: the website.
stealingyoursunbeams's review
4.0
When I bought it, I thought it was a collection of stories in one book. It's actually a book of pulp fiction covers and excerpts. I was a little disappointed, seeing as I wanted to read pulp fiction, but this book gave me a pretty good idea of what it is. A sexy, fun read.
P.S. I tried reading this on a bus, and people kept staring because it has large color photos of half-naked women. #embarrassing
P.S. I tried reading this on a bus, and people kept staring because it has large color photos of half-naked women. #embarrassing
xterminal's review
3.0
Gary Lovisi (ed.), Bad Girls Need Love Too: Pleasure Yourself with Pulp Fiction (Krause Publications, 2010)
I'm never quite sure what to do when it comes to rating books like this—in this case, a collection of lurid covers of pulp novels, mostly (if not all) from the fifties. It's very much a vertical-market piece; if the subject matter interests you, you want the book, and if it doesn't, there's not a great deal the book (this book, at least) is going to do to change your mind on the subject. Lovisi's collection is extensive and impressive, but he doesn't do a great deal of declamation on the evolution of the pulp cover or anything like that; not surprising as this is a quickie art book rather than a thesis. I'd have kind of preferred the latter—something that could be used to introduce folks who never realized that this is A Thing(TM) to pulp novel covers; instead, it comes off as a “my pokemans, let me show you them” book. Again, if you're already interested in the subject matter, this is not a bad thing. But if you're not, you won't miss anything if you pass this up. ** ½
I'm never quite sure what to do when it comes to rating books like this—in this case, a collection of lurid covers of pulp novels, mostly (if not all) from the fifties. It's very much a vertical-market piece; if the subject matter interests you, you want the book, and if it doesn't, there's not a great deal the book (this book, at least) is going to do to change your mind on the subject. Lovisi's collection is extensive and impressive, but he doesn't do a great deal of declamation on the evolution of the pulp cover or anything like that; not surprising as this is a quickie art book rather than a thesis. I'd have kind of preferred the latter—something that could be used to introduce folks who never realized that this is A Thing(TM) to pulp novel covers; instead, it comes off as a “my pokemans, let me show you them” book. Again, if you're already interested in the subject matter, this is not a bad thing. But if you're not, you won't miss anything if you pass this up. ** ½
discodolly's review
3.0
Nice collection of vintage pulp covers with quotes from the pulps. Fun to browse through, but not much more to it than that.
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