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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: Bob Zager on December 17, 2010, 01:26:15 PM

Title: New book by Norm Blumenthal
Post by: Bob Zager on December 17, 2010, 01:26:15 PM
Here's a link to order it from amazon.com:

http://www.amazon.com/When-Game-Shows-Rule...9716&sr=8-2 (http://\"http://www.amazon.com/When-Game-Shows-Ruled-Daytime/dp/1593936028/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1292609716&sr=8-2\")

I loved Concentration in my childhood, and it good to see another book by the show's longtime producer!
Title: New book by Norm Blumenthal
Post by: geno57 on December 18, 2010, 02:25:18 AM
Fantastic!  Didn't know this was coming.  I've just ordered it through Amazon.  Thanks for the heads-up.
Title: New book by Norm Blumenthal
Post by: DjohnsonCB on December 20, 2010, 11:32:53 PM
Any chance he mentions in there the fact that "Concentration" didn't go color until 1966 and goes into detail as to why?
Title: New book by Norm Blumenthal
Post by: Kniwt on January 07, 2011, 05:23:26 PM
My copy is here, and it's certainly an interesting read so far ... interesting in much the same way you'd sit down with your grandpa, and he'd just ramble on about anything and everything randomly for two hours or longer. You had no idea what he was going to say next, but by gosh, it sure was fascinating and entertaining.

That said, however, Norm really needed to pay a few bucks to get his book copy-edited before he sent it off to the publisher. A reference to the national newspaper "U.S. Today" is the least of the troubles.
Title: New book by Norm Blumenthal
Post by: clemon79 on January 07, 2011, 05:52:17 PM
[quote name=\'Kniwt\' post=\'254192\' date=\'Jan 7 2011, 02:23 PM\']... interesting in much the same way you'd sit down with your grandpa, and he'd just ramble on about anything and everything randomly for two hours or longer.[/quote]
Replace "grandpa" with "drunk uncle" and you've got at least a couple holidays at Chateau Lèmon.

Ah, the memories.
Title: New book by Norm Blumenthal
Post by: Matt Ottinger on January 07, 2011, 08:39:33 PM
[quote name=\'Kniwt\' post=\'254192\' date=\'Jan 7 2011, 05:23 PM\']My copy is here, and it's certainly an interesting read so far ... interesting in much the same way you'd sit down with your grandpa, and he'd just ramble on about anything and everything randomly for two hours or longer. You had no idea what he was going to say next, but by gosh, it sure was fascinating and entertaining.

That said, however, Norm really needed to pay a few bucks to get his book copy-edited before he sent it off to the publisher. A reference to the national newspaper "U.S. Today" is the least of the troubles.[/quote]
I've only skimmed, not read, but I got that impression.  He's already written one similar work, way back in 1975.  The TV Game Shows is similarly rambly.  In fact, I had a fleeting thought that the new work was just a reprinting of the obscure original, but it's not.