tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701602284718920546.post9134492719612532668..comments2024-03-27T17:14:54.791-05:00Comments on Glorious Trash: The Executioner #7: Nightmare In New YorkJoe Kenneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285576322579808153noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701602284718920546.post-18778704126965959042016-02-10T10:27:08.258-06:002016-02-10T10:27:08.258-06:00Thanks for the comment, Chris. I'm with you -...Thanks for the comment, Chris. I'm with you -- this one was my favorite yet. I need to get back to the series. I'll try to read volume #8 soon. And I believe you are correct, that must've been the first War Wagon reference.Joe Kenneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03285576322579808153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701602284718920546.post-55324961293759697382016-02-08T16:02:38.680-06:002016-02-08T16:02:38.680-06:00Nightmare in New York has to be my favorite Execut...Nightmare in New York has to be my favorite Executioner novel so far. I thought the writing and action sequences were a lot better than the previous books.<br /><br />I would like to see what Bolan looks like dressed up like a hippie and driving around in a flowered VW minibus. I bet it would have been funny.<br /><br />Poor Evie, she was just a poor love-struck young lady that did not deserve Chris H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05527860799077915606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701602284718920546.post-78376536191006235052015-02-19T14:23:55.396-06:002015-02-19T14:23:55.396-06:00Hi Joe! Thanks for the reply! Glad to know Pendlet...Hi Joe! Thanks for the reply! Glad to know Pendleton did explain it somewhere! :-)<br /><br />I also decided to re-Google “turkey doctor” and add “Bolan” to see if that helped, and it did! I found this passage from Executioner #24, <i>Canadian Crisis</i>, on Google Books:<br /><br />Bolan [...] told the guy. “Crazy Sal sentenced her to fifty days in a turkey doctor’s chamber of horrors.”<br /><brFelicity Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07983958177951363405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701602284718920546.post-54797725895364156112015-02-19T11:06:42.911-06:002015-02-19T11:06:42.911-06:00Felicity, thanks for the comments you've left....Felicity, thanks for the comments you've left. I'm not sure if Pendleton ever explained the origins of the phrase "turkey doctor" in the actual Executioner novels, but he did provide the background in an interview published in the book "A Study of Action-Adventure Fiction," by William H. Young, which I reviewed the other year: http://glorioustrash.blogspot.com/2011/11Joe Kenneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03285576322579808153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701602284718920546.post-67447869979450100072015-02-18T20:37:15.487-06:002015-02-18T20:37:15.487-06:00(Forgot to check “e-mail follow-up comments”)(Forgot to check “e-mail follow-up comments”)Felicity Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07983958177951363405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701602284718920546.post-41730896330846442342015-02-18T20:36:49.230-06:002015-02-18T20:36:49.230-06:00I first encountered the phrase “turkey doctor” in ...I first encountered the phrase “turkey doctor” in another Executioner novel (I forget which one--one of the 1980s ones with the white covers) and tried Googling the phrase, but couldn’t find any occurrence of it. I could only assume from context that it meant “torturer,” but I was hoping for more information. Where did the expression come from? Why turkeys? Etc.Felicity Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07983958177951363405noreply@blogger.com