--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DA100014 Date: 05/31/96 From: MEG ANTCZAK Time: 08:17am \/To: PATRICIA FERRARA (Read 4 times) Subj: Kellerman--The Web > I haven't read it yet, but he is one of my favorite authors > and I look forward to reading it. I did think it was about > the Internet, so thanks for the warning. If I don't like > the other characters, I'm in trouble. I don't particularly > care for Robin, so I'd be left alone with Alex. Hmmm. Well I wouldn't mind being left alone with Alex. Actually I picture him looking like the author and I think he's pretty good looking. The cover only shows his face, I'd like to see a full-length picture of him. > > What was the setting that put you off? Or would that give > away too much to someone who hasn't read it? > The book takes place on a southeast island. I guess one of the things I enjoy about his books is the urban setting. Plus Milo was only featured in a few phone conversations. I like the rapport he and Alex have. Let me know what you think of the book after you're done. I'll have to check and see if his wife Faye has a new one out. I also need to put John Sandford's latest on reserve at the library. I'm almost finished with Stephen Whites's first book. Have you read him? He writes very much like Kellerman I think. * QRdr 1.11beta * --- * LAKOTA v1.5 --- SFScan v2.61 * Origin: The Lighthouse BBS (1:2613/365.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DA100015 Date: 05/31/96 From: MAUREEN GOLDMAN Time: 06:42pm \/To: MARILYN PRIBUS (Read 4 times) Subj: Susan Isaacs On (30 May 96) Marilyn Pribus wrote to Dorothy Reynolds... MP> Loved Compromising Positions. It's also a movie, not too MP> bad, with Susan Sarandan and Judith Ivy (who was great!). MP> She's done some others, too, but I don't know about anything MP> very recent. MP> Why do these good authors get us hooked then go out to MP> pasture? It's called writers' block. ... "Ack! Phfft! Thptpth!" - Bill the Cat --- PPoint 1.88 * Origin: Point of No Deposit, No Return (1:153/404.11) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DA100016 Date: 05/31/96 From: MAUREEN GOLDMAN Time: 06:43pm \/To: MARILYN PRIBUS (Read 4 times) Subj: A Maiden's Grave On (30 May 96) Marilyn Pribus wrote to All... MP> To whomever recommended this read by Deaver: MP> THANKS! MP> My husband is now glued to the pages. I hope that this isn't a library copy. They're fussy about that kind of thing. Also, it is difficult to return the book via the drop slot. ... Excuse me. Excuse me. Sorry. Excuse me. Sorry. Beg your pardon.. --- PPoint 1.88 * Origin: Point of No Deposit, No Return (1:153/404.11) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DA100017 Date: 05/31/96 From: FRED RUNK Time: 05:22pm \/To: MIKE NICHOLS (Read 4 times) Subj: Cornwell -=> While in the White Hart, Mike Nichols insisted to Fred Runk that <=- MN> i got it, I figured it out ????? ... Ceremonial whimpering placates the gods. ___ X Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 X --- Maximus 2.02 * Origin: Fred's Place (1:300/6.2) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DA100018 Date: 05/31/96 From: PATRICIA FERRARA Time: 08:37pm \/To: DOROTHY REYNOLDS (Read 5 times) Subj: Imagination -=> Quoting Dorothy Reynolds to Belle Bijou <=- dr> Why is it that whenever they make a movie from some of these good dr> books, they manage to mess it up? dr> I'm not much of a TV fan anyhow. Prefer reading. Leaves more to dr> the imagination. I think you managed to answer your own question there, Dorothy. Reading allows you to conjure up your personal vision of what is being described. When everything is presented to you on screen you are limited not only to what the film maker envisioned, but also to what the filmmaker is capable of transferring from his own imagination to the screen. Given how vastly one person's tastes and perceptions can differ from another's, filmmakers seem destined to disappoint more people (who read the book) than they are going to please. I do like to watch movies, but with one exception, I have yet to see one compare favorably with the book it was adapted from. The exception, for me, is Gone With The Wind. Oddly enough, I occasionally find myself reading a good mystery and thinking, "This would make a GREAT movie!" I chalk it off to a malfunction of brain circuitry, and usually come to my senses quickly enough. Patsy --- Blue Wave/DOS v2.30 * Origin: Orion's Sword | Bush, LA | (504) 867-9701 | V.* (1:3828/1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DA100019 Date: 06/01/96 From: BELLE BIJOU Time: 01:12am \/To: MEG ANTCZAK (Read 4 times) Subj: Kellerman--The Web I'd like to say to , Meg Antczak (1:2613/365) who said: >Hi Friends-- > I just finished Jonathan Kellerman's latest book. (No, it is not >about the internet.) This is the first book of his that I have been >disappointed in. I think I didn't enjoy it because of the setting. Also >the only characters I liked were Alex and his girlfriend Robin. Comments >anyone? Yes, I had the same reaction. I felt he wanted to write a book about the location and just tossed in some murders almost as an afterthought. Also, it was verrrry slow - at least for the first half. I read an article in the book section of The Washington Post a few months ago about authors whose characters don't travel well. This one could easily have been included. --- msged 2.05 * Origin: 1:109/253 Dinah's Scrabblemania (1:109/253) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DA100020 Date: 06/01/96 From: BELLE BIJOU Time: 01:15am \/To: DOROTHY REYNOLDS (Read 4 times) Subj: Susan Isaacs I'd like to say to , dorothy reynolds (1:202/711.3) who said: BB>I think that COMPROMISING POSITIONS was her best book. It was also her firs BB> Raul Julie and Susan Sarandan starred in the movie, which (unhappily) was BB>just okay. > Hello Bell: Thank you for the tip. Will look for the book in the >public library. I rather enjoyed the one mystery of hers. Why is it that >whenever they make a movie from some of these good books, they manage to >mess it up? Case in point. Last night I watched V.I. Warshawski on TV, >(Sara Paretsky's protaganist), Played by Kathleen Turner, and frankly >was quite disappointed. Nothing like the exciting woman she is in the >books. Happens a lot, and it's too bad. Yes, I feel like I've been waiting ages for someone to make a movie based on James Lee Burke's books, and "Heaven's Prisoners" has gotten pretty mediocre reviews. All seem to agree that Alec Baldwin was miscast - which was certainly my first reaction! --- msged 2.05 * Origin: 1:109/253 Dinah's Scrabblemania (1:109/253) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DA100021 Date: 06/01/96 From: BELLE BIJOU Time: 01:18am \/To: DOROTHY REYNOLDS (Read 4 times) Subj: Sara Paretsky I wonder, since you like Sara Paretsky, if you've read her WINDY CITY BLUES yet? It's her latest and is a book of stort stories, which I usually do not enjoy, but I enjoyed these stories even more than I do her books. --- msged 2.05 * Origin: 1:109/253 Dinah's Scrabblemania (1:109/253) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DA100022 Date: 06/01/96 From: BELLE BIJOU Time: 01:20am \/To: FRED RUNK (Read 4 times) Subj: Cornwell I'd like to say to , Fred Runk (1:300/6.2) who said: BB> Virginia! Imagine, good mysteries that are not in NY or LA! >Impossible!!! Inconceivable!! >However, one must also include London, along with NY or LA as the only >"possible settings" for "good mysteries" though. And let's not forget those rural English villages where passions seem to always be running amuck. BB> She did not, in my opinion, improve after her first book. BB> The second and third were also good, but after that she BB> began to get stale and the books kind of petered out BB> instead of being resolved. >Maybe time for her to develop a new character? Nope. She knows she's got hold of a good thing - even if it's becoming somewhat worn. Just read a long article about her in the paper yesterday. She has a new one coming out, and is apparently one of those incredibly prolific writers who just churns them out. --- msged 2.05 * Origin: 1:109/253 Dinah's Scrabblemania (1:109/253) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DA200000 Date: 06/01/96 From: MIKE NICHOLS Time: 09:09pm \/To: FRED RUNK (Read 4 times) Subj: Cornwell FR>-=> While in the White Hart, Mike Nichols insisted to Fred Runk FR>that <=- FR> FR> MN> i got it, I figured it out FR> FR> FR>????? exactly. about where Cornwell was from. --- SuperBBS 1.17-3 (Reg) * Origin: The Richwood BBS, SuperBBS Support/Reg, (409)265-3828 (1:3812/10)