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clemon79

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Re: NEW BOOKS: This Day in Game Show History Vol. 1-4
« Reply #30 on: July 15, 2014, 01:50:59 PM »
And one more...

Norm Blumenthal's book "When Game Shows Ruled Daytime TV" is reduced to $3.49!

This one I recommend getting a sample of to check out before buying; last time I looked (when it first shipped, so hopefully this is no longer the case) the Kindle formatting was DREADFUL.

I would be pleased to hear that it's been reformatted, but caveat emptor.
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Re: NEW BOOKS: This Day in Game Show History Vol. 1-4
« Reply #31 on: July 15, 2014, 01:52:39 PM »
There must be something in the water: Randy West's magnum opus about Johnny Olson is also going for $3.49; a steal if there ever was one.
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Matt Ottinger

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Re: NEW BOOKS: This Day in Game Show History Vol. 1-4
« Reply #32 on: July 15, 2014, 02:42:07 PM »
And one more...

Norm Blumenthal's book "When Game Shows Ruled Daytime TV" is reduced to $3.49!

This one I recommend getting a sample of to check out before buying; last time I looked (when it first shipped, so hopefully this is no longer the case) the Kindle formatting was DREADFUL.

I would be pleased to hear that it's been reformatted, but caveat emptor.

Frankly, especially compared to Randy's and Adam's tomes, I found Norm's book to be all but unreadable anyway.
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clemon79

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Re: NEW BOOKS: This Day in Game Show History Vol. 1-4
« Reply #33 on: July 15, 2014, 02:47:48 PM »
Frankly, especially compared to Randy's and Adam's tomes, I found Norm's book to be all but unreadable anyway.

How so?
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Matt Ottinger

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Re: NEW BOOKS: This Day in Game Show History Vol. 1-4
« Reply #34 on: July 15, 2014, 02:55:42 PM »
Frankly, especially compared to Randy's and Adam's tomes, I found Norm's book to be all but unreadable anyway.

How so?

It's been a while, so I don't know if I can give a good answer.  Best as I recall, what he found interesting about television didn't mesh well with what I found interesting about television, which made the whole thing dull to me despite the fact that Concentration was my childhood favorite.  He'd spend pages talking about some subject that could have been dispensed with in a paragraph or two.  He's also a very brittle, bitter man (as many of us learned at an early GSC) who feels like he didn't get enough credit for his accomplishments, and in some ways, this book seemed designed to correct that historical mistake.
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Re: NEW BOOKS: This Day in Game Show History Vol. 1-4
« Reply #35 on: July 19, 2014, 08:28:01 AM »
And another one...

Cathy Rudolph's biography of Paul Lynde is $3.49...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00I8PDRIG/


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Re: NEW BOOKS: This Day in Game Show History Vol. 1-4
« Reply #37 on: July 28, 2014, 01:13:07 PM »
"Game Show Historian Adam Nedeff!" He's Steve Beverly but 100% less douchey! :)
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