--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DCX00002 Date: 08/24/96 From: ZIPPY Time: 09:06pm \/To: ALABAMA FLOWER (Read 3 times) Subj: hi call me please your the best --- GEcho 1.11+ * Origin: IRRESISTIBLE (Can't resist!) (407) 631-0060 374/75 (44:244/700) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DCY00000 Date: 08/27/96 From: ROBERT WHITE Time: 06:34am \/To: BELLE BIJOU (Read 3 times) Subj: Summer reading -=> Quoting Belle Bijou to Robert White <=- Hello Belle, BB> Yes, COMPELLING EVIDENCE, PRIME WITNESS, UNDUE INFLUENCE and THE BB> JUDGE. He also wrote another book called THE SIMEON CHAMBER that I Thanks for the listing, I'll check out my favorite used book stores for them when I stock up for the trip. >explain the vast legions of fools and clowns and outright buffoons who, BB> I'm always bewildered by the "fools and clowns and outright buffoons" BB> who VOTE for some of these bozos! Something about you can fool all the folks some of the time...... comes to mind. Here in Alberta we have had basically one political party in power for most of this century. They have prospered by casting all other parties as being 'god-less communists', a sentiment that plays well with the rural minority. BB> I think I mentioned the Thomas Perry book - VANISHING ACT - that I BB> enjoyed so much. I've now read his second book featuring Jane He is also on my BOLO list, I guess the second book is 'Dance for the Dead'? BB> Also, this past weekend while in the throes of insomnia (a chronic BB> problem), I read all 450 pages of MOTION TO SUPPRESS by Perri Sometimes if I awaken in the night I'll slip down stairs to read until I get dozy again; usually the sun comes up first! >I'm sending you netmail re: your trip to France - suffice it to say I'm BB> I got it - ooh la la! I'll be sure to have a memorial aperitif for And I'll think warm thoughts to you as I sit watching the morning fog along the Maine coast! For a change of pace I picked up a Joan Hess book, 'Busy Bodies'. It's a lair Malloy mystery, and I find find her books to be very funny. Hess is supposed to be a very funny lady in person as well. Good change after the violence drenched Edna Buchanan. Bob 8-{) --- Blue Wave/Max v2.20 * Origin: TechTalk; Calgary, Alberta. V.34+ (1:134/40) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DCY00001 Date: 08/27/96 From: ROBERT WHITE Time: 06:46am \/To: BELLE BIJOU (Read 3 times) Subj: Child abuse.... -=> Quoting Belle Bijou to Robert White <=- >I'm about half way throught Edna Buchanan's 'Suitable for Framing' and it BB> I thought you'd enjoy her. Her constant on-going descriptions of the BB> every day lunacy of the place are just mind boggling, aren't they? Her style is more a reporters view, not surprising given her background. I like the way Hiaasen takes the same lunacy and stretches it to the absurd. Bob 8-{) --- Blue Wave/Max v2.20 * Origin: TechTalk; Calgary, Alberta. V.34+ (1:134/40) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DCY00002 Date: 08/27/96 From: ROBERT WHITE Time: 06:50am \/To: PATRICIA FERRARA (Read 3 times) Subj: Edna Buchanan -=> Quoting Patricia Ferrara to Robert White <=- Hello Patsy, RW> Back on topic a wee bit: I'm reading an Edna Buchanan book 'Suitable PF> I'm really glad to hear you say this, Robert. I recently PF> bought that book at a FoTL sale. I kept picking it up and If you like terse, action filled stories, and a fair bit of violence you'll probably like Buchanan. The violence isn't very graphic, but the stories are written in the quick streamlined style of the crime reporter that Buchanan was, and her main character is. Bob 8-{) --- Blue Wave/Max v2.20 * Origin: TechTalk; Calgary, Alberta. V.34+ (1:134/40) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DCY00003 Date: 08/27/96 From: ROBERT WHITE Time: 07:07am \/To: SUZZE TIERNAN (Read 3 times) Subj: Walter Mosley -=> Quoting Suzze Tiernan to Sharon Skelly <=- SS> Just read _White Butterfly_ by Walter Mosley & really enjoyed ST> Another author I haven't read. Too little time, too little time. Hi Suzze, You should make time for Mosley, his Easy Rawlins books are great. They eally give you an insight into being black in Calif. in the 50's & 60's. And they are good mysteries as well. They should be read in order as there are continuing characters and large time jumps between each book. You see how Rawlins life and attitudes change as he ages, and as society moves and changes. Off the top of my head the order is: Devil in a Blue Dress, A Red Death, hite Butterfly, and Black Betty. Devil in a Blue Dress was made into a very credible movie starring Denzil Washington. Bob 8-{) --- Blue Wave/Max v2.20 * Origin: TechTalk; Calgary, Alberta. V.34+ (1:134/40) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DCY00004 Date: 08/27/96 From: FRED RUNK Time: 10:41pm \/To: RUSS JERNIGAN (Read 3 times) Subj: used books -=>While in the White Hart, Russ Jernigan explained to Fred Runk that<=- RJ> Well, I'm not in the business but it doesn't seem to make much of a RJ> difference here in what is stocked. I, as a buyer, will often buy a RJ> mystery in pb first then buy a good condition hb if I really liked it. Same here. I stay away now generally from new hardbacks. For the cost of one, I can get four or five new pbs. Email: fred.runk@mbhbbs.playcom.com ... Move your vowels daily, or you'll get consonated! ___ 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: DCY00005 Date: 08/27/96 From: FRED RUNK Time: 10:44pm \/To: SUZZE TIERNAN (Read 3 times) Subj: Brother Cadfael -=>While in the White Hart, Suzze Tiernan explained to Fred Runk that<=- re "Brother Cadfael" tales. ST> Oh, that would be fun. I haven't read any of those yet, I just picked ST> up a book that has a few of them in it. Short stories? Would that be "A Rare Benedictine"? I'm not aware of any other collections of short stories. If so, one of those tales is about the time Cadfael decided to join the Benedictines. Email: fred.runk@mbhbbs.playcom.com ... Backup not found: (A)bort (R)etry (P)anic ___ 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: DCZ00000 Date: 08/28/96 From: SUSAN BULLA Time: 08:49pm \/To: DEBBIE SHANKER (Read 3 times) Subj: Private library DS> > I thought King's DS> > DS> "With Child", the third in her "Grave Talent" series was excellent and DS> > DS> hope that there is more to come with those characters. DS> DS> > I have "Grave Talent" - haven't read it yet. DS> DS> I found it slow to start but picked up nicely. "With child" was my favorite DS> of that particular series. Just finished my first Laurie King book, "A Grave Talent" and thoroughly enjoyed it - immediately trotted over to my local used bookstore looking for "Beekeeper's .." but nary another one of hers to be found. I'm definitely on the hunt for them, though! Will be spending a long weekend in the mountains of new Mexico soon vegging out and two or three of these would be great as reading material on the trip. * JABBER v1.2 * I need some duct tape...my duck has a quack in it! --- InterEcho 1.19 * Origin: * DataBoard BBS * Crowley, TX * (817)297-6222 * (1:130/916) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DCZ00001 Date: 08/28/96 From: DELORES E ROWE Time: 10:12pm \/To: SUZZE TIERNAN (Read 3 times) Subj: Re: Grimes -=> On 08-24-96 13:03, Suzze Tiernan said something about Grimes to der....... Hi, Suzze... DER> This must have originally been in one of the mail packets I lost when DER> I was setting up my new communications program! What a wonderful idea! DER> I know exactly where we'll start...The White Hart...in Witley, Surrey. DER> Beautiful little pub, established before the Pilgrim set off on their DER> great adventure. There's an old Church just up the hill a little way DER> that was built in Norman times. Let's see, what else would you like to DER> see? If we go in the spring, there is wonderful wooded area just down DER> the road where the blue bells are so thick that it looks like blue DER> grass, and aroma is heavenly. There is a little brook to paddle in, DER> or a nice quiet lake to fish for trout... ST> I am there in my mind alraedy. I think that is something that readers have, over and above the general population...the ability to IMAGINE!! DER> About ten miles from there is Guildford...the highstreet is paved with DER> cobblestones laid by the Romans, there are the ruins of St. Catherines DER> Abbey, which Henry VIII burned during his great snit, the Cathedral, a DER> really nice little pub just down the hill from St Catherines, where DER> the Pilgrims actually stayed on their journey to the Mayflower... ST> I can't imagine things that OLD. The USA is so new! I am ashamed to admit it...(head hung in shame, big toe drawing circles in the sand)...all of that "old" stuff bored me to death when I lived there! I grew up in an old, stone cottage that was built in the 1700's. For a few years, we didn't have hot water, a bathtub or a flush toilet. We lived with my Grandparents, used one of those old glavanized tubs to bathe in once a week, and my Nanna did all of the cooking on a coal stove. Now, that I am MUCH older, I have a real appreciation for those things! DER> How long do we have for this "fact finding" tour? DER> Get your passports ready!! ST> Let's leave it open-ended!! I'm game! From Guildford, we should go on to London, about 30 miles. We can do the usual tourist things...Madame Toussauds, The Tower, Buckingham Palace, the Victoria and Albert Museum, St. Pauls Cathedral, Westminster Cathedral, Big Ben, the Houses of Parliament, New Scotland Yard. We can get on a boat at the Tower, and float down the Thames to Greenwich Village..see the Maritime Chapel, with it's magnificent ceiling, and the lock from whence comes Greenwich Mean Time. From there we will go a little further down river to visit Hampton Court Palace and the Maze. We can go to nice little pub that I kow of on the river for a nice pub supper, crawl back to our rooms, and get ready to travel North to Stratford-on-Avon and the Lake District. der ... Therapy is good...but screaming obsceneties is cheaper. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- TriDog 10.0 * Origin: TMK BBS -W.A.E.I.C.-509+886+7607-mystique@nwinternet.com, (1:344/115) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DCZ00002 Date: 08/28/96 From: DELORES E ROWE Time: 10:20pm \/To: FRED RUNK (Read 3 times) Subj: My eyes hurt.... Hi Fred.... Did you start back to school yet? The kids started school today, but I don't think the local colleges start until the middle of next month. I have been on a total reading binge for the past week! I have hundreds of messages to slog through, and my eyes hurt!! I read two Patricia Cornwell's...Post Mortem and Cause of Death. The first was as good as the last..or vice versa!! I really enjoy her books, and have yet to be disappointed. I read Sudden Prey by John Sandford Another of his Lucas Davenport murder-suspense novels. It was fairly good, but there was a lot of violence, some of which was purely gratuitous. I also read Critical Judgement by Michael Palmer. I recently started reading his books, and I really like them. They usually grab you right from the beginning and don't let go until the very end. They are very well written and usually revolve around a medical setting. I also read Charade by Sandra Brown but it wasn't anything to write home about. Did you finish your summer reading projects? der ... Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- TriDog 10.0 * Origin: TMK BBS -W.A.E.I.C.-509+886+7607-mystique@nwinternet.com, (1:344/115)