I’m a bit late to the party on this, so maybe you’ve seen it already, but below is the trailer to the upcoming film adaptation of Lawrence Block’s Matthew Scudder novel, A Walk Among the Tombstones, starring Liam Neeson as Scudder. Lawrence Block has a cameo.
This is one I have not yet read, so I can’t comment on how close it looks like it hews to the book. It does look like they got the origin story right, though.
It looks like they’re trying for a dark, serious film. Fingers crossed!
(Thanks to cluelo for the tip. Book cover illustrating this post of an inscribed copy is from my personal collection, suckaz!)
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In the late 90’s, I was walking through the mall and they had a stack of aWotT hardcovers on the discount table. I told my friend how great of a book it was so he bought a copy for 5 bucks. As we were walking out to the car, he looked inside it and said, “Great, somebody scribbled in it.” I took a look and turns out it was a signed copy. I ran back into the store and looked through the remaining six copies and two more were signed by Block, so I bought one as well. Still sits in a place of honour on my bookshelf.
Back in junior high or so, I bought a copy of the short story anthology The Early Asimov at a garage sale for fifty cents. Opened it up, and boom! Inscribed.
I don’t read a lot of science fiction these days, but I kept that one.
My only other accidental autograph was one of those TSR D&D Endless Quest books by Rose Estes, also acquired as a youngster. Not quite as big of a score, although she was certainly a presence in my youth. I gave that one to a gaming geek friend a couple of years back.
I honestly never understood the fascination some people have for autographed books, records, napkins…
But to each his own.