B-Masters Book Parade…

Updated on May 3, 2010 By Ken Begg 8 Comments

Nathan Shumate of Cold Fusion Video has a book on the way, The Golden Age of Crap.  A pre-order page has been set up for folks that want to reserve a copy.  (Actually, Amazon says they have some in-stock.)

This joins the previous flood of books by the B-Masters, including the Stomp Tokyo boy’s Reel Shame, and, uh, Reel Shame.  So Nathan’s amazingly doubled our output.  That guy’s a monster!

Joke’s aside, Nathan has been the hardest working man in the b-movie review field forever, and anyone who’s read his stuff will know that this will undoubtedly be more than worth the pittance he’s asking for it.

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  • Rock Baker

    I know this isn’t really connected (or anything anyone really cares about), but I wrote a manuscript for a Jabootu-influenced book. So much so, its probably best I couldn’t get it published. I don’t know if you’d have had grounds to sue me, Ken, since I really didn’t intend for it to be so similar, but you might’ve been able to make a good case. I was influenced by both your site and the fantastic book Sleaze Creatures by D. Earl Worth. My aim was to examine ten films from the 60s from start to finish and include background info and genre study. But what I did was examine oddball movies, as opposed to Bad movies (you say tomato…) I wanted to look over the harmlessly weird stuff from that greatest of decades for oddball movies. (Let’s see, the chapters were Bodysnatcher From Hell, Pinocchio in Outer Space, Nude on the Moon, Monsters Crash the Pajama Party, Sting of Death, Death Curse of Tartu, Bigfoot, The Doomsday Machine, Kong Island, and “Manos” the Hands of Fate.) Again, this has nothing to do with the topic, but I thought you might find it interesting. I don’t want it to sound like I’m tooting my own horn (I hate it when people do that and I have a fear of doing things that I hate to see others do), and I think I’m safe there since, as I noted, I could never sell it! But I am one of those who firmly believes that YOU should collect YOUR reviews into a book.

  • Rock, I’d have nothing but love for your book! Jabootu is about bringing people together, not splitting them apart.

    Man, I wish I could buy the world a Coke.

  • roger h

    Can we sue (or pummel) the guy who came up with “so bad, it’s good” and still drink Coke?

  • Petoht

    Pity it couldn’t get punished, Rock. I’d totally buy a book like that.

    Maybe look into vanity on-demand printing? Also, Rock’s right: a collection of Ken’s work would be fantastic. I love how you dig into the zeitgeist surrounding the films as well as the films. And, hell, your Rocky reviews are practically a dissertation on film all by themselves.

  • Dr. Whiggs

    Seconding a Ken book. You’re writing is extremely engaging and accessible, even if you do have questionable taste on occasion.

  • I myself have two book projects that have gotten past the first draft stage, but never made it past the editing stage. Both are books about kung fu films: one in English about films dealing with specific styles, another in Portuguese about the great individual fight scenes over the years. I need to get back on it soon.

  • Rock Baker

    Thanks for the support! Who knows, maybe someday I can still get it published….

  • Flint Paper

    Man, I keep coming late to the party. I have to third and fourth a Jabootu dead-tree edition, but only if Ken includes a full Jaws treatment for the complete Alien and Predator series from their promising beginnings, through the drek of the crossover series, building up to the new Predators film and maybe some extra background on the films that didn’t get made. I’m sure he’s working on it even as I type.