--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DAE00000 Date: 06/09/96 From: PATRICIA FERRARA Time: 08:41am \/To: DOROTHY REYNOLDS (Read 3 times) Subj: Afterthought -=> Quoting DOROTHY REYNOLDS to PATRICIA FERRARA <=- DR> Guess I did. Added the prefer reading as an afterthought and DR> didn't realize I had answered the question. Tend to do that a DR> lot. :} Glad to meet someone else who does that. It's sort of like thinking out loud... except it's typing. DR> Your explanation is great. Thanks. I come up with an occasional goody. :) DR> Ah yes. Gone With The Wind. A classic. Funny you should mention DR> that one, as I was thinking the same thing. Too bad Margaret DR> Mitchell didn't live long enough to receive the rewards for not DR> only her book, but the movie as well. I truly believe she would DR> have gone on to bigger and better things had she lived. Did you read Scarlett? I wasn't going to because I was opposed to the project to begin with, but someone special gave me the book as a Christmas present and I didn't have the heart to hurt their feelings. I felt obligated to read it once I owned a copy. It read like a cheap romance novel, in my opinion. But since I had such a negative attitude from the outset, I'm not exactly voicing an unbiased viewpoint here. DR> I do like to watch movies, in fact, am an Old Movie buff. Those DR> were the days when they made wonderful movies, and many times DR> from excellent books, but they are a rarity these days. A bunch DR> of pretty faces with few acting skills, marching woodenly across DR> the screen, mouthing four letter words that lend nothing to the DR> story. But today's viewing public seems to eat it up. This is WAY off topic, but did you ever see a movie called "The Easy Way", starring Cary Grant and Betsy Drake? I love that movie! And now, back to mysteries: I love Hitchcock movies! "Rear Window" is a favorite of mine. I used to LOVE watching Perry Mason when I was a kid, though I was so sensitive to the suggestion of violence and murder that I had difficulty getting to sleep after watching. You can imagine how I react to the slasher films they crank out these days. I understand that there are Perry Mason books, but are they based on the show or is the show based on them? I've been wondering, but haven't investigated them yet. Perhaps I should call up Paul Drake... Right now I'm reading a Ruth Rendell mystery, but I'm having trouble getting into this one so far. This is the second of hers that I'm reading... I liked the first one very much. DR> I'm not a prude, by any means, but one can only stomach so much DR> dirty language before it becomes disgusting. "Adult" language can be used so, ummm ... childishly. 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: DAE00001 Date: 06/09/96 From: BELLE BIJOU Time: 11:03pm \/To: DOROTHY REYNOLDS (Read 3 times) Subj: Re: Susan Isaacs I'd like to say to , DOROTHY REYNOLDS (1:202/711) who said: > I've seen a lot of discussion about James Lee Burke here, and > definitely plan to read him. We have a whole bunch of his books > in our private library in the building. My to read list is so > long, I don't have enough hours in the day to read and do my own > writing. Sometimes I think I need to clone myself so I can do > both at once. Tee hee. Well, he is probably my very favorite, or darn close to it. His writing is very lyrical, often poetic. But you should also know that there is pretty graphic violence in his books. > As for Alec Baldwin, he's not my favorite actor anyhow. Maybe I > have seen him miscast too many times? Unfortunately, this often > happens to actors and they never really get a chance to show their > true talent-if they have any. He's really a pretty good actor, although I think both his brothers might be better. But this was NOT the role for him. > What role did Alec play in Heaven's Prisoners? Would like to know > so when I get around to reading the book, I'll see if I can picture > who would have been better for the role. Oh the little games we > play in our heads. He plays the lead character - Dave Robicheaux, a former New Orleans homicide detective (in the first book), who is cajun and moved back to his home town near the Bayou Teche and runs a bait and tackle shop. HEAVEN'S PRISONERS was the second. He eventually becomes a policeman in his home town - which tends to legitimize all the nefarious happenings ;) --- msged 2.05 * Origin: 1:109/253 Dinah's Scrabblemania (1:109/253) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DAE00002 Date: 06/09/96 From: BELLE BIJOU Time: 11:15pm \/To: DENNIS MENARD (Read 3 times) Subj: Re: Cornwell I'd like to say to , Dennis Menard (1:3409/3) who said: >I do like the Patricia Cornwell series. However, what I would like to >see >her work towards is letting her secondary characters evolve somewhat, and >to >play more believable roles. My feeling is similar when considering >Paretsky >whose earlier books were wonderful; lately, though, her secondary >characters >seem to be more and more no more than simple cardboard props. That is part of what bothers me. And the dialogue - good grief, she has her detective (whose name escapes me right now) sounding like Humphrey Bogart or some other throwback to the '40s who tries to sound with it by sprinkling in a current slang expression. It drives me nuts. I do not know one single person, much less a policeman in his 40's, who actually says, "YO!" Her niece is another one whose dialogue doesn't ring true. A few weeks ago I read Paretsky's WINDY CITY BLUES, a collection of short stories that she has written over a long period of time. They seemed much richer to me - especially the characterizations of her secondary players. >Somehow, , Sue Grafton has managed to avoid this problem. I think Grafton has been a bit smarter by not inventing many secondary characters in the first place. >I've recently been reading John Lawrence Reynolds, a series involving an >ex- >cop detective in Boston. They should be read in order, if possible ... >1) The Man Who Murdered God >2) And Leave Her Lay Dying >3) Whisper Death >4) Solitary Dancer Thanks, I'll check him out. --- msged 2.05 * Origin: 1:109/253 Dinah's Scrabblemania (1:109/253) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DAE00003 Date: 06/09/96 From: BELLE BIJOU Time: 11:23pm \/To: MARILYN PRIBUS (Read 3 times) Subj: Rendell I'd like to say to , Marilyn Pribus (1:203/289) who said: >Right now I'm watching a rerun of A DARK-ADAPTED >EYE on PBS's Mystery. Written by Rendell as >Barbara Vine. Lots of dark drama and psychological >overtones and very well done. (Have only seen about >the first 45 minutes. God Bless VCRs.) Don't know if you'll get it, but our other PBS station was showing GALLOWGLASS, another Rendell. Both were excellent. --- msged 2.05 * Origin: 1:109/253 Dinah's Scrabblemania (1:109/253) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DAF00000 Date: 06/09/96 From: RICHARD KNOWLES Time: 03:59pm \/To: FRED RUNK (Read 3 times) Subj: Where is everybody? In a message of , Fred Runk (1:300/6.2) writes: >I also like the mysteries set in other times and other climes. Along with >PD James, Martha Grimes, Elizabeth George, and Colin Dexter, I also enjoy >Ellis Peter's tales of Brother Cadfael; Anne Perry's Victorian amnesiac >detective, Monk; and a series set in Augustinian Rome, based on the xploits >of a private informer, Falco, by Lindsey Davis, I think. Yes, Lindsey Davis's character is Falco. You need to read the Stephen Saylor series about Gordianus the Finder. The first one is Roman Blood and the second is Arms of Nemesis. There are presently 5 in all. I also like the John Maddox Roberts series which begins with SPQR, but the Saylor series is the best one of the three. >Another series, set in the future, is Isaac Asimov's Lije Baley/R. Daneel >Olivaw mystery series. Lije Baley is a NYC cop, who, in the first novel, >was forced to work with R. Daneel Olivaw on a case--he was unhappy about >that for several reasons--jurisdictional for one, secondly it was a >high-profile political murder, and three, R. is short for robot. Not that >he was prejudiced against robots, but... The Caves of Steel, followed by The Naked Sun. And written much later, The Robots of Dawn. I have never read the last one, having been warned off. The Caves of Steel is arguably Asimov's best novel. --- msged 2.07 * Origin: Sci-Fido, Berkeley, CA (1:161/84) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DAF00001 Date: 06/09/96 From: RICHARD KNOWLES Time: 04:33pm \/To: DOROTHY REYNOLDS (Read 3 times) Subj: Where is everybody? In a message of , dorothy reynolds (1:202/711.3) writes: RK>I saw your previous message about Susan Isaacs but I haven't read her. RK>Traffic in this area can be slow. > Think I figured out why messages weren't coming through. Little >problem with BBS in the throes of change over to Internet. Stuff coming >through loud and clear now. > Thanks for answering my messages, and you're right, traffic has >been slow. What mysteries do you like to read? Do you have a favorite >writer? I got hooked on Ed McBain and try to read as much of him as I >can. Also like Sarah Paretsky. Right now I'm reading a Linda Barnes for >the first time. Can't make a judgement yet, but will let you know. Sorry about replying so late. My mystery reading is hap-hazard. I have read very few of the better known writers except for Tony Hillerman. I have read nearly all (28 out of 33) of Arthur Upfield's series about a half-European/ half-Aborigine Inspector in the Queensland police force with the unlikely name of Napoleon Bonaparte. Unfortunately, I think they are all out of print again. I have read several mysteries set in Ancient Rome by Lindsey Davis, John Maddox Roberts, and Stephen Saylor. All three authors are good with Saylor being the best. Bruce Alexander has a new series based on real historical character, Sir John Fielding, a blind 18th century London magistrate. He created one of the 1st English police forces, the Bow Street Runners, and was brother to Henry Fielding, the novelist. The 1st one is called Blind Justice. I also really like the works of Laurie King who has two series, one about a lesbian detective in the SFPD, the 1st book is A Grave Talent, and two books about Sherlock Holmes and a bright female apprentice: The Beekeeper's Apprentice and A Monstrous Regiment of Women. I have also read two mysteries about a Ranger with the federal Bureau of Land Management. She is a Basque which lands her right in the middle of the cattle vs sheep range wars which still haven't entirely gone away. The author is Kirk Mitchell, whose first books I read were SF about an alternate history where Rome never failed. And I've read a number of others. The very first Ruth Rendell. A couple of Anne Perry books and so forth. --- msged 2.07 * Origin: Sci-Fido, Berkeley, CA (1:161/84) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DAF00002 Date: 06/09/96 From: STEPHANIE SHAPTER Time: 10:43pm \/To: DELORES E ROWE (Read 3 times) Subj: Nelson DeMille -=> Quoting Delores E Rowe to Stephanie Shapter <=- Hi Delores! SS>BTW...have you read anything by Nelson Demille? He's good too. DER> DER> I just finished Spencerville and found it to be a good read. I want DER> to get the General's Daughter and The Gold Coast and see how they pan DER> out. Have you read either of them? Yes! I've read both of them. The General's Daughter is excellent!! It is very surprising. The Gold Coast is good too, but it was long reading at the beginning. Spencerville was my favorite, though. I felt so sorry for that poor woman. Ugh! The sherrif was a total pig!! The first book I ever read by him was something about a Vietnam vet. I can't remember the title, hough. I love Demille. I can't wait till his next book. That is how I am. I find an author I *really* like and then I read all his works. I end up waiting for each book to come out. Bye for now! Stephanie ... It wasn't me, I didn't do it, besides it was an accident. --- Where Freinds Meet!! * Origin: * The Recovery Nest * Burleson,TX * 817-447-1619 * (1:130/911) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DAF00003 Date: 06/09/96 From: STEPHANIE SHAPTER Time: 10:50pm \/To: DELORES E ROWE (Read 3 times) Subj: Patricia Cornwell -=> Quoting Delores E Rowe to Stephanie Shapter <=- Hi again! DER> Yep, I participate on several of the FIDO echoes, most frequently on DER> Debate, Fishing, EMS, and Cooking. I recently found this echo, and am DER> enjoying it immensly!! I have a list of books from tips picked up DER> here that should fulfill my reading needs for quite some time!! I think I've seen you in Cooking. DER> Have you read Tami Hoag? If you haven't read any of hers, try NIGHT DER> SINS. I guarantee you that you will like it...and you will run DER> yourself ragged looking for the sequel, GUILTY AS SIN. No!! I'll have to try her now. It seems like we have the same taste. Later! Stephanie ... ...do invisible cats drink evaporated milk??? --- Where Freinds Meet!! * Origin: * The Recovery Nest * Burleson,TX * 817-447-1619 * (1:130/911) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DAF00004 Date: 06/09/96 From: RAJIV JAMES Time: 11:13am \/To: ALL (Read 3 times) Subj: stephen.r.lawhead To: ALL Subject: stephen.r.lawhead HI folks, Has anyone ever heard of an author called Stephen R. Lawhead I got this book by him a couple of years ago called 'The Pendragon Cycle : MERLIN (Book 2)' The first book is apparently called TalieSin. Merlin is one heck of a book. It loved it. But i could never find any of LawHead's other books!. If anyone has any information on His books, please give me some details. Btw some of his other books are (from the pages of MERLIN) The DRAGON KING trilogy The Empyrion Saga If they are as good as MERLIN,i'd love to get my hands on em. Ŀ Live long and prosper... ...& may the force be with you ۲ R. AMS --- QMPro 1.53 Do not underestimate the power of the Force. * Origin: The Diplomat BBS : 971-2-659913 (5:7411/1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DAF00005 Date: 06/08/96 From: MIKE NICHOLS Time: 11:19pm \/To: JAN MURPHY (Read 3 times) Subj: Re: My mail! JM> annoying. It's Fidonet tradition not to be JM> excessively annoying and not to be too easily JM> annoyed. Be polite when pointing out these JM> confusions Good message, with an ending I appreciate. Later, The northern Mike. ;} --- Maximus/2 3.00 * Origin: The Clubhouse/T.O.T.T. BBS [OS/2] <204-489-9081> (1:348/601)