BKDEC22.RVW 940418 Inferno Press 15332 Antioch Street, #173 Los Angeles, CA 90272 "Dec 22", Romano, 1993, 1-884514-16-2, U$14.95 + 1.50p&h cdromano@aol.com So, there's this message on the "alt.books.reviews" newsgroup from this guy who wants someone to review his self-published book. Name of cdromano. Make what you can of that. (Year of the CD-ROM, maybe? Nah, more likely some C.D. Romano.) Asks people to send him their address and a few sample reviews. Send him my address, tell him to look back through the .books. newsgroups. Get a message back saying he doesn't have access to the newsgroups. Asks about details of things that I assume refer only to America Online. Before too much more of this goes by, I get a book in the mail. Sort of a yellowish green which my wife will be able to tell me the name of. Only illustration is a male, dark-haired, clean-cut, smiling head in a five-pointed star. The cover says, "Dec 22, 1991-1992" and I initially wonder if it isn't some bizarre DECUS document. The covering letter explains that this is "December 22" and promises a year's worth of dreams and that this is the first of an annual series. The imprimatur of Inferno Press, and the flaming skull logo, seem to have no relation to anything until one notes that Chris Romano is actually Christopher Dante Romano. Chris's subconscious apparently likes spiders, genitalia, fecal matter, black men, asian girls, and television and film personalities. There is not an entry for every single night, but for most, and most nights there is more than one. Subconscious absurdities aside, most are remarkably pedestrian. For those like surrealism, fish are singing in the red. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1994 BKDEC22.RVW 940418 ============== Vancouver p1@arkham.wimsey.bc.ca | You realize, of Institute for Robert_Slade@sfu.ca | course, that these Research into rslade@cue.bc.ca | new facts do not User p1@CyberStore.ca | coincide with my Security Canada V7K 2G6 | preconceived ideas