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Bettie Page: Queen of Hearts

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The most unfortunate thing about Jim Silke's book is that he writes about Bettie Page (and very poorly, at that) as an object rather than as a person--his interest in Bettie doesn't seem to extend beyond his own masturbatory fantasies. It doesn't appear that the author spent much time researching his subject (beyond looking at her pictures). While there are a respectable number photographs and some nice artwork by Dave Stevens and Robert McGinnis, there are far too many pages devoted to Silke's own drawings of Bettie, many of which are based on old movie stills or Olivia paintings.

Let me just say if your a bettie page fan you,ll love all the pic,drawing and hard to find nude of Ms page. Its a short book but well layed out.

Excellent book, with good pictures of Bettie. It has a good piece of Bettie's story, too!

I love Betty Paige...and adored this book...I read many
true stories and unusual or odd memoirs...I find them
to be the most stimulating because they are not mainstream.
This book was well worth reading....

Jim Silke, an artist who has created many ravishing portraits of Bettie, in this book reflects on and tries perhaps to explain or at least describe some of the magic of this lady who was more than just another pin-up, more even than the queen of the pin-ups.

There is a lot of nudity in this book. There are photos and illustrations. There are images that are not of Bettie. It's not a bio of Ms Page; it's not a history of Silke's work; it's not a tale of how American culture became more appreciative of the pulp side of creativity -- it's all of that, and more.

I think that anyone who is a fan of Silke may like this book. Certainly anyone with an interest in the rise of the pulps will probably enjoy it. It covers a lot of cover art that hasn't really been taken seriously anywhere else. For myself, I was really looking for something that was more a portfolio of Silke's work, so I will keep looking.

If there isn't enough information on this amazon page, you might like to look at the Bud Plant website too.

Good luck, and keep reading.

Like the other book I bought this was intwnded for a WWII Vet friend of mine the book never arrived the seller never made contact with me and it turns out the guy I was getting it for did not like her even back in the day. After 2 weeks I think it was, I asked the seller to cancel the order. Terrible communications with this seller I never got a reply.