--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DB400034 Date: 06/27/96 From: MARILYN PRIBUS Time: 08:31am \/To: MYRL PARDEE (Read 3 times) Subj: GAIL GODWIN Never heard of Gale Godwin. I'm sure Gail is female. Lynn --- Maximus 2.01wb * Origin: >> Ubik: Not whodunnit... << (1:203/289) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DB400035 Date: 06/28/96 From: PATRICIA FERRARA Time: 05:42pm \/To: FRED RUNK (Read 3 times) Subj: Category -=> Quoting Fred Runk to Patricia Ferrara <=- PF> Hmmm. Maybe it's time you wrote about it, Fred... FR> Wonder what genre it would fit? "True Confessions"? "Horror"? FR> "Humor"? "Fantasy"? Wait. Do you mean to tell me that Sexual Harrassment is not a category all its own? Hmmm. Maybe things aren't as bad as they seem.... Have you ever read any Harold Adams? I haven't come across anyone who has read his work, which surprises me because he seems to be a somewhat prolific writer. I have read every single book of his that my branch of the library carries. I really enjoy his writing. If you haven't already read his mysteries, I'd like to recommend them to you... and hope you'll let me know what you think. Patsy ... A taste of honey's worse than none at all. --- 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: DB400036 Date: 06/28/96 From: PHIL POCOCK Time: 01:07pm \/To: SUZZE TIERNAN (Read 3 times) Subj: Test -=> Quoting Suzze Tiernan to Stephanie Shapter <=- -=> Quoting Suzze Tiernan to All <=- ST> I'm still not sure if my mail is getting out, as I posted a message ST> about it a week ago and have got no replies! ST> Anyone hear me? SS> Hello? I hear you loud and clear in Fort Worth, TX!! ST> I am doing another test here. Please answer (anyone) if you get this. ST> I realized the only message anyone answered me from I posted directly ST> on the BBS, I want to see if my messages in Blue Wave are making it ST> out. Just browsing as that's practically all I ever do in this echo, but did note that your message made its way this far south! [g] << Phil from San Antonio, TX at 13:08:38 on Fri 06-28-96>> ... - BBSing: Files, folks and fun. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 --- Maximus/2 3.01 * Origin: The Rock BBS--Religion, Debate, Literature. (1:387/31) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DB400037 Date: 06/28/96 From: SUSAN BULLA Time: 09:36pm \/To: FRED RUNK (Read 3 times) Subj: Libraries FR> No, name isn't familar. I left the City in 1980 and didn't keep in touch, so FR> I don't know who came on after me. Thanks. She's more recent vintage. FR> Reading anything interesting at present? Reading something named "Mortal Grace" but it's too soon to draw much of a conclusion about it. Author is new to me but can't recall the name at the moment. You? * JABBER v1.2 * You've pegged out my credulity-meter! --- InterEcho 1.18 * Origin: * DataBoard BBS * Crowley, TX * (817)297-6222 * (1:130/916) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DB400038 Date: 06/28/96 From: MYRL PARDEE Time: 01:12pm \/To: MARILYN PRIBUS (Read 3 times) Subj: GAIL GODWIN Dear Marilyn: Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa! And I apologize greatly. My beloved Godwin author, who I recommend highly is a gentleman named Parke Godwin. And at midnight, my usual time for lurking, I'm just a confused old person. I promise to look up the MS. Gail Godwin the next time I'm at the book store. Perhaps I'll like her as well. Thanks for the correction. Myrl Pardee --- FLAME v1.1 * Origin: 24th Street Exchange * A BBS Since 1983 * 916.448.2483 (1:203/52) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DB400039 Date: 06/29/96 From: PATRICIA FERRARA Time: 11:18am \/To: MAUREEN GOLDMAN (Read 3 times) Subj: Total Recall -=> Quoting Maureen Goldman to Patricia Ferrara <=- MG> What can I say? I recently connected with the Internet, and the MG> experience of learning new skills is HARROWING. If I can't MG> recognize my own words, it's not surprising. I know what you mean. I have a theory about memory. I think that each brain cell is designated a specific job... a specialist, if you will. I've decided that my memory cells, particularly those who are getting up in years, have become very civic-minded. They have become volunteers for other other duties as the need arises. What this means to me is, when I attempt to learn something new that is on the difficult side for me, these memory cells head on over to help with the struggle. And, even when I'm finished working on that task, they sometimes stick around awhile and chaw over the issue with my subconscious... Which is why they don't hear me calling when I'm trying to remember what the name of my third grade teacher was... These thoughts were processed by cells who specialize in bizarre thought processes... Okay, I'll quit now. Must be time for my medication, anyway. MG> He's a Mountie, the only tone-deaf member of a family noted for MG> professional opera singers. Sounds like a series with a sense of humor. I like that. Patsy ... He who laughs, lasts. --- 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: DB400040 Date: 06/29/96 From: DEBBIE SHANKER Time: 08:01am \/To: HELEN FLEISCHER (Read 3 times) Subj: Test > DS> It's been a while. Are you and Eric going to the picnic in Pa? > DS> We're looking forward to it a lot. Especially the side trip to the > DS> Hershey factory. > Refresh my memory as to time! Is the side trip the same day or The picnic is Sat. and a few of us plan to go to Hershey on Sun, weather permitting. > DS> Finished" Press Corpse" recently, written by Ron Nessen and Johanna > DS> Newman. It's the second in their Wash. DC series. Has lots of Wash. > DS> color and political name dropping. Their first book, "Knight and > DS> Day" set up the two main characters and was extremely good. This one > Guess I'll have to look for those. It would be nice to read > something > that gets the DC color right for a change. ;) You have no idea how > irksome it is to see metered cabs in a book set in DC. I'm certainly no expert on DC..but it sounded like they knew what they were talking about. Nessen spent many years working at the White House so he should be pretty accurate. The policeman in the series gives the book a reality check while the two main characters are more lighthearted and tend to romp through the first book. They get a bit more serious in the second one. > DS> I read McCrumb's Rosewood Casket a while back and enjoyed it..am > DS> now rereading her previous 3 in the Appalachian series. Am also > Haven't caught up on those. I've only read the first two and have > the > 3rd on my to-read shelf. Those are my favorites of hers, though. Betty just sent me a newspaper article featuring an interview with McCrumb. She seems to be making the series more mainstream rather than "mystery/murder" although each one does have a mystery of sorts. She said Nora was actually based on a real person. It's up to the reader to either accept or not her second sight. She is definitely a wonderful character and one of my favorites...Nora is the reason I keep going back to the series. McCrumb said she is now researching her next in the series (Ballad of Frankie Silver). RE: Killing Critics > DS> & Noble and picked it up. He said he just wanted to take a peek at > DS> it and the next thing he knew, he was on page 90! > Now that's a recommendation! One of the other staff members got the book on Wed or Thur, went home, and finished it in one sitting. I'm off to the bookstore this afternoon with plans of buying it...I'll start it tomorrow...Have to finish Karen Kijewski's "Honky Tonk Kat" tonight..I love the Kat Colorado series. I also saw a note on DotL that Jan Burke has finished the first rewrite of her latest in the Goodnight Irene series. That's another series I gobbled up (I had gone home sick with the flu during the winter and brought home with me the first 3 of her series. Finished them by the time the sniffles were gone). <<< Debbie >>> --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: chocolate, Chocolate, CHOCOLATE: Roch, NY (1:2613/321.1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DB400041 Date: 06/25/96 From: STEPHANIE SHAPTER Time: 01:57pm \/To: SUZZE TIERNAN (Read 3 times) Subj: Test -=> Quoting Suzze Tiernan to Stephanie Shapter <=- Suzze, ST> I am doing another test here. Please answer (anyone) if you get this. ST> I realized the only message anyone answered me from I posted directly ST> on the BBS, I want to see if my messages in Blue Wave are making it ST> out. Well, I hear you again. I am having trouble, it seems, with my mail. I haven't gotten nearly as much mail in the past couple of weeks as I am used to getting. I used to get at least 5-10 messages with each download, but now I only get one or two, if any. I dunno, maybe it is because everyone is doing their own thing. (Summer trips, etc...) (shrug)At any rate, I hear you loud and clear. BTW...which authors do you enjoy reading? I just love Nelson DeMille, and I am currently reading the newest book from Patricia Cornwell, FROM POTTERS FIELD. CULTR, Stephanie ... I don't get even; I stay odd. --- Where Friends Meet!! * Origin: * The Recovery Nest * Burleson,TX * 817-447-1619 * (1:130/911) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DB400042 Date: 06/28/96 From: DELORES E ROWE Time: 10:34am \/To: FRED RUNK (Read 3 times) Subj: reading matter... Fred Runk and DER were talking aboutthisand that.... FR> FR>Err...You seem to have forgotten James Bond! FR> DER> Sorry...IMO, James Bond is kiddie fare to anything that LeCarre FR> DER> writes! FR>Yeah, closer to comic book hero stuff, actually. IMO, the books aren't much better than the movies. The only James Bond movies that were worth watching were the early ones with Sean Connery. :) FR> DER> Brave fellow!! I am always appalled when I see the poor grammar, FR> DER> atrocious spelling and general lack of comprehension of students hat FR> DER> are graduating from high school. However, I work closely with two FR>My two summer courses that just finished today (still have to grade finals) FR>consisted mostly of high school students--jrs. and snrs. No comment. Your silence is deafening! :) FR> DER> high school teachers in a club that I belong to, and, to be erfectly FR> DER> honest with you, neither of them could spell their way out of a aper FR> DER> bag!! FR>That's what spell checkers are for. >g< I really wonder what's going to happen to future generations that cannot add or subtract without a calculator or spell without a spell checker. A major power outage and they are brain dead! I worked in an office in the 70's that decided to become a "paperless" pioneer. The employees were dragged to their new computers, kicking and screaming, and it took close to a year before everyone had all of their files entered. Wasn't too long after that there was a power outage, and everyone was wondering around like zombies because they "didn't have anything to do"! They had forgotton how to process things manually! It was pretty sad. :( FR>Will start DAUGHTERS OF CAIN in a day or so. Interesting title as I think FR>I remember seeing another book that had "Cain" in the title. FR>I also read the collection of short stories with Morse--MORSE'S GREATEST FR>MYSTERY. FR>Didn't work for me. Very weak stuff overall. A real disappointment. ave FR>you read it? No, I haven't and I heard somewhere else that it gotpoor reviews. The publishers must have been pushing too hard! :) *** SLMR 2.1a Dogs come when called. Cats have answering machines. --- TriToss (tm) Professional 10.0 - #189 * Origin: TMK BBS - 509.886.7607 - mystique@nwinternet.com (1:344/115.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DB400043 Date: 06/27/96 From: PIERRE AMADIO Time: 01:37pm \/To: ALL (Read 4 times) Subj: Holmes 's addiction Hi. I have read that Sherlock Holmes (hope the spelling is good) usually takes drugs beetween two periods of works in order to have something to do with his mind. I read it a long time ago, and i dont remember where. Does any of you know if he takes morphin or cocaine ? Thanks for the information. Pierre. --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: Le Viking BBS - Morangis (Essonne) - +1 69.34.82.35 - 2:320/405.6)