September 12, 2023

Hellbound Binding 5: Slick Page Flip: Devilish Devil in Blue Dress Distress (Blond/Brunette with a Cigarette); (Easy Reading/Book Comparison between Novel and Film: Devil in a Blue Dress)

52 minutes

Greetings Cinematic Fanatics, in this particular case, you Hellbound Book Hounds! The only thing more satisfying than a gorgeous and flawlessly executed standalone Slick Flick Pick is one that honors, if not exceeds, the splendor of its novel source material.

Sometimes a screenplay, or film, has been novelized into a riveting read;

conversely, an analogue bound book is oft condensed and converted, via a complex digital undertaking, to a cinematic adaptation. Some of the very slickest, sleekest, passionately picked flicks I've had the pleasure of enjoying originated with a Slick Page Flip I took pride in perusing. The age old debate remains as heated and vitriolic as ever, the lingering, pesky, vexing question: is the slick flick pick better than the slick page flip?

Sometimes this answer proves easier than slicing your finger's flesh on the corner of a page in a hellbound book; I offer the example of Winter's Bone, the flick is superior to the novel--but not vastly so-- while no doubt novel, source--however the Slick Page Flip of Sphere, by Michael Crichton, outshines the merit of its cinematic expression; coming from a cinephile, such as yours truly, that is a cocksure comment indeed.

While I will not perform this companion, contrast/comparison analysis between the primitive novel and polished flick on every Slick Flick Pick, I will grant you the gift of an either/or/both discussion when I find the right pairing of bound paper and waxy film. Enjoy you Hellbound Book Hounds and Cinematic Fanatics as I investigate these various bound collections and similar comparisons to their corresponding flick-- remain on track with your deft, rapt attention in tact through an aurally pleasing perusal as you sate your curiosity with each passing slick flick/page flip pleasure on my Chemohawk rack.

Snuggle the fstars up with a bloody, slick HellBound Book in your secretive nook.

As you earn each paper cut, you'll feel these fully fleshed out characters in your gut.

Whether binding open or cover shut, you've wed the novel--the flick serves merely as your mistress slut.

Here, we unwind some novel binding for this is where final cut greets papercut!

The Slick Flick Pick we will be discussing: Pick 45: Slick Flick

Pick: Easy's Sleazy Case--Trailing a West Coast Ghost (Facing Debts, Chasing Coquettes and Misplacing Cigarettes); (Devil in a Blue Dress, 1995) and while that flick was undeniably entertaining, rare and provocative-- the book furnished so much dialogue from its bleeding paper cut fingers feverishly flipping pages of the source novel, I

find this flick to be incredibly slick but how can you fstars up a story about teaching an old L.A. new tricks, a private eye dick, his trusting but

trigger-happy sidekick, whose flame is already lit on his wrathful wick as they track down the mixed race gal in a blue racy, lacey gown who, more so in the novel than the film proves a fstars lunatic.

Our protagonist, war vet hero Easy, sometime sleazy Rawlins finds himself in too deep, far over his head as his curiosity ushers him to an unseemly, unsafe place where streets run the color of her lips: blood red.

Today you are gifted the treat of audibly checking out this edition **Fifth selection of Slick Page Flip** from my Chemohawk Library Rack: Hellbound Binding 5: Slick Page Flip: Devilish Devil in Blue Dress Distress (Blond/Brunette with a Cigarette); (Easy Reading/Book Comparison between Novel and Film: Devil in a Blue Dress)

- Your freestyle logophile, bibliophile and cinephile: Falsetto Prophet

P.S. (Procrastinated Statement) *Intro/outro song, Soulicious, courtesy of the artist, Dyalla.

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