--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DCN00003 Date: 08/18/96 From: REBEKAH DICKERSON Time: 01:02pm \/To: ALL (Read 3 times) Subj: Good Author I have'nt been on this conf. long and I was just wondering if anybody knows any good authors.I like stuff written by Agatha Christie and Sherlock Holmes books,but I'm running out of stuff to read.I would really appreciate any suggestions. Bec --- QScan/PCB v1.19b / 01-0450 * Origin: THE FAMILY SMORGASBOARD Pleasant Grove, Alabama (1:3602/77) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DCN00004 Date: 08/18/96 From: SUSAN BULLA Time: 07:30am \/To: ROBERT WHITE (Read 3 times) Subj: Scary virii RW> Apparently one of the major causes of so called common illness' becoming drug RW> resistant is the indiscriminate use of antibiotics. That's my understanding, too, Robert. If this is true sounds like we're not doing the species much good by not exercising our "immune system muscles." I'll hang with fever for a few days in hoped I can fight off whatever before I resort to antibiotics - unless it's a high fever, of course. I don't have *any* expendable brain cells! RW> If you can't tell, I really like Straley's books! I'll have to remember this author 'cause I really like Hillerman and I believe you had mentioned some similarities. RW> I just started Laurie King's 'With Child' and it also looks to be a winner. I'm reading my first John Lescroart - "The 13th Juror". It started out on a ho-hum note for me but I'm now caught up in it. Picked up 3 hardback mysteries last night at Barnes and Noble: one by Sandra Scoppettone (whom I used to find on RIME's Mystery conference occasionally), a trilogy by Elizabeth Peters, and one by the actor Stephen Collins - all on sale for less than $10 (and some less than $5)! * JABBER v1.2 * If stupidity is its own punishment, some of us are doing life. --- InterEcho 1.19 * Origin: * DataBoard BBS * Crowley, TX * (817)297-6222 * (1:130/916) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DCN00005 Date: 08/18/96 From: FRED RUNK Time: 09:59am \/To: JAN MURPHY (Read 3 times) Subj: used books -=>While in the White Hart, Jan Murphy explained to Dennis Mccunney that<=- JM> And here's another new wrinkle that has cropped up -- a JM> couple of the major used bookstores in town don't take JM> mystery hardcovers in trade anymore. Zilch. Nada. So if JM> the book is out of print, and you want the hardcover, you JM> shop somewhere else or do without. JM> JM> Why they don't take them, I don't know. Do mystery fans JM> buy fewer used hardcovers than other used book buyers? I find that is true for all sorts of hardback fiction, not just mysteries. The usedbook stores now will take only out-of-print or old hb, or new ones if the pb versions haven't come out yet. Once the pb version appears on the stands, the stores here won't take the hb versions. Email: fred.runk@mbhbbs.playcom.com ... You should always try to be yourself, but don't overdo it. ___ 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: DCN00006 Date: 08/18/96 From: MAUREEN GOLDMAN Time: 10:49am \/To: BETH FRIEDMAN (Read 3 times) Subj: Pat Wrede's web page On (17 Aug 96) Beth Friedman wrote to Maureen Goldman... BF> Interesting. What's the URL, if you remember? MG> www.io.com/~eighner/wbuild/html BF> Aha. That must be Lars Eighner's web page; he used to be active on BF> the WRITING echo, which is where the fantasy world-building stuff was BF> posted originally. BF> I don't suppose there's any chance of you coming back? Nope. I gather that the traffic has lessened considerably, though, as people drift toward The Web. There used to be some 300+ messages per day. ... The moving cat sheds, and having shed, moves on. --- PPoint 2.00 * Origin: Point of No Deposit, No Return (1:153/404.11) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DCN00007 Date: 08/16/96 From: HELEN FLEISCHER Time: 10:38am \/To: PATRICIA FERRARA (Read 3 times) Subj: Lists HF> New authors I want to try, on the other hand, I do HF> have to write down. I also keep a shopping list of all the authors I HF> read so I don't end up buying the same book more than once. PF> That's a list I could definitely benefit from. When I come PF> across a title that rings a bell, I can't be sure if it is PF> because I read the book or that I've read the title before. PF> At least this isn't true of my favorite authors. Those I PF> tend to remember. My memory is terrible. Several of my favorite authors were not only quite prolific, writing far more titles than I can keep in my head. Worse, some wrote in the days when publishers where a lot more whimsical about changing titles when they re-released a book in this country or even sometimes on the second UK edition. The Copperfield List of Mystery Authors has been a real boon for those and it's small enough to fit in my purse on shopping expeditions. It doesn't list all of the authors I read, though and my copy is old enough that I've had to pencil in recent books by living authors, sometimes running out of space on the page for that author. Someday I'll get all those lists into my computer and the lists for other authors as well. Then I can print them as small as I like and make my own portable list. PF> If you come across any Harold Adams books, give 'em a try. Another one to add to my list, eh? ;) I don't recall seeing that name but I'll look for it next expedition. ;) PF> Reading is a magic carpet ride, isn't it? How could anyone, PF> once they've learned to read, not enjoy it? Hard to say. Now I'm in Oklahoma, by reading Jean Hager's _Ghostland_. I was hooked on reading before I ever started school. I think that's part of it. Some people never try reading for pleasure and some of the things they made us read in school were more than enough to put me off those authors for a long time, if not reading in general. Good luck on your FOTL shopping. Perhaps by going at lunchtime you'll miss the worst of the crowds? Certainly Saturday would be worse than Friday. ... Where am I going? And what am I doing in this handbasket? * Q-Blue 1.0 * Helen Fleischer is helen@mbbs.com in Fairland, MD --- GEcho/2-PCB/2 * Origin: * MetroNet * Columbia, MD * (410) 720-5506 * (1:261/1137) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DCN00008 Date: 08/16/96 From: HELEN FLEISCHER Time: 07:43pm \/To: MAUREEN GOLDMAN (Read 3 times) Subj: Lists HF> Decided to go for a HF> complete change of mood and grabbed an old Barbara Michaels that's HF> been sitting on my to-read shelf for years; The Sea King's Daughter. MG> I picked that one up about six months ago and didn't care for it MG> at all. Found it boring and something of a mishmosh, probably MG> an early effort. It isn't really a mystery, which I could say for a lot of the early Barbara Michaels stuff and this is among the earliest. I enjoyed it more for the setting and Minoan touches than for the plot and read it far too quickly to have time to be bored. Insomnia does that for you. ;) ... "How many sheep make a sweater?" * Q-Blue 1.0 * Helen Fleischer is helen@mbbs.com in Fairland, MD --- GEcho/2-PCB/2 * Origin: * MetroNet * Columbia, MD * (410) 720-5506 * (1:261/1137) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DCN00009 Date: 08/18/96 From: SHELLEY GINGRICH Time: 05:31pm \/To: DELORES E ROWE (Read 3 times) Subj: Re: J.A. Jance DER> SG> noticed you haven't read J.A. Jance. You really must put her DER> SG> To Read list. Not only are they fun to read with an enjoyabl DER> SG> but the series is set mostly in seattle. I get a kick out of DER> SG> about sights and places I am familiar with. You might,too. DER> DER> Could you post a couple of titles for me, preferrably the first two DER> I can begin at the beginning? I'll be happy to. My mother-in-law has a list of all the books in order. If you can give me a day or two I'll get the whole list to you. I can't wait to see how you like Jance. BTW - She used to come to Cover to Cover to do book signings with every new book. It was fun visiting with her. --- 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: DCN00010 Date: 08/18/96 From: DELORES E ROWE Time: 10:45pm \/To: RUSS JERNIGAN (Read 3 times) Subj: Re: Research -=> On 08-16-96 19:46, Russ Jernigan said something about Research to der....... RJ> Hi, Delores! Hi Russ... DER>With respects to what? Stability? Erosion? Water run-off? RJ> Stability of slopes and strengths for designing foundations, piles, RJ> and suchlike. Sounds interesting! DER>Hmm. I don't think I am familiar with any of her works? Is she fairly DER>recent? RJ> No, there are a good 10 or more novels out. Mostly she writes about a RJ> homicide dective in Seattle (who inherited money but keeps working RJ> anyway). She also has a much shorter series about a female Arizonia RJ> country Sheriff, plus a few stand-a-lones. Could you send me the first ones she did in both the Seattle Series and the Arizona series? I do like to begin at the very beginning! RJ> Just finished Tom Clancy's _Executive Orders_ and Simionsen's (sp?) RJ> _Mudlark_. Both good if not great reads. I was really disappointed in the last one of Clancy's that I read...he cowrote it with some guy. However, Executive Orders is in my TBR stack! I've never heard of Simionsen. I just finished John Grisham's Runaway Jury, which was so-so, and have just started Requiem For Moses by William Kienzle. I also finished Tami Hoag's Cry Wolf, but was very disappointed. It was nowhere near as good as Night Sins and Guilty As Sin. :( IMO! der ... I didn't believe in reincarnation the last time either! ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- 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: DCN00011 Date: 08/18/96 From: DELORES E ROWE Time: 10:47pm \/To: SHELLEY GINGRICH (Read 3 times) Subj: Re: J.A. Jance -=> On 08-18-96 17:31, Shelley Gingrich said something about Re: J.A. Jance to der....... Hi Shelley... DER> Could you post a couple of titles for me, preferrably the first two DER> I can begin at the beginning? SG> I'll be happy to. My mother-in-law has a list of all the books in SG> order. If you can give me a day or two I'll get the whole list to SG> you. I can't wait to see how you like Jance. BTW - She used to come to SG> Cover to Cover to do book signings with every new book. It was fun SG> visiting with her. Shelley! I'm a mother...ergo, I have patience! By "here", do you mean Wenatchee? I had no idea that such things occurred here! der ... I started out with nothing,and still have most of it left ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- 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: DCP00000 Date: 08/19/96 From: DENNIS MCCUNNEY Time: 12:50am \/To: ROBERT WHITE (Read 3 times) Subj: Child abuse.... ** From Robert White to Dennis Mccunney on 13 Aug 96 10:40:07 ** Child abuse.... DM> difficult to break. There are large numbers of folks out thre who DM> are really unfit to be parents, but how do you identify them and DM> prevent problems? RW> All too true, and I'm not sure what the solution is here either. RW> Perhaps classes in parenting in high school? I don't think it would help the problems we're discussing. It might help in technical matters, by teaching some of the practical elements involved, the way that Home Economics classes used to try to prepare women for married life. But the spiral of abuse we're talking about won't be cured by clpoasses in high school. Abusers are generally abused themselves, and the pathological behavior we're lamenting is something learned by observation and example ay a *very* early age. --- Blue Wave/DOS v2.30 * Origin: * BlueDog BBS * (212) 594-4425 * NYC FileBone Hub (1:278/304)