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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Monday, January 15, 2007 - 8:37 pm
I hope this isn't repeating another thread, but this is for all things not included in the other areas. Is there a book you'd like to discuss that isn't in your current list, and it's not necessarily a favorite, but a very interesting book? Perhaps, there is an author you'd like to discuss.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Monday, January 15, 2007 - 10:51 pm
Great idea Twiggy! Well I met Maeve Binchy and that was a thrill! I would love to meet Nora Roberts... I also met Helene Hanff author of 84 Charing Cross Road. She was played by Anne Bancroft in the film. Has anyone else met any authors? Or perhaps someone that has been written about?
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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Tuesday, January 16, 2007 - 12:52 am
I lived in the same neighborhood as Ann Rule. We had a nodding acquaintance and would chat when we met in store etc. She really is a charming woman..not the type to write about such horrific crimes! I have met John Saul, recognized him at the mall...I am so lacking in tact, I greeted him like a friend and told him how much I enjoyed his books. Went to a book signing for Anne McCaffrey and she is a darling grey haired lady who looks just like my aunts but writes about other worlds. There has been other various and assorted authors I've met thru the years but those are the ones who stand out in my memory.
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Tuesday, January 16, 2007 - 6:00 pm
I would love to meet all of them, but Anne McCaffrey would be my favorite!! I've never met any famous authors, but I've read biographies of authors. Do any of you have a good story from meeting an author or want to relate a biography about one?
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, January 16, 2007 - 6:29 pm
Twiggy are you an Anne McCaffrey fan? She was one of the first fantasy/sci fi writers I read and I just adore her. I've been itching to get Caleb into her Dragon Rider series but some of those are still a bit too mature for him.
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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Tuesday, January 16, 2007 - 8:32 pm
Anne McCaffrey has always been a favorite of mine, that's why I made a special effort to get to one of her book signings. She is writing the Dragon series with her son now. Much to my delight. I remember seeing Ann Rule at Albertson's right after Dianne Downs, the mother who killed her children in Small Sacrifices, had escaped from prison. Ann said she was the most afraid she had ever been. Dianne had threatened Ann's life after the book and Ann said she would too if given the chance. She was so relieved when Dianne was captured. These were the days of the Green River Killer and Ann said she needed an ending before she could write the book. Once there was a lead in the newspaper about questioning a suspect, it gave interviews with the neighbors. I looked up names and addresses and then drove by the house in question. It was perfect, backing right up to the freeway. Any how the next time I saw Ann I told her about my great detective work. She started laughing...she had done the same thing only borrowing the neighbors car to drive by. We both got a good laugh over that. It's been over 15 years since I have seen her and I'm sure she wouldn't remember my name. She moved to a more expensive area. But I am sure she would be so gracious and act like she did remember me...that's how she is!
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Kattatude
Member
04-28-2005
| Wednesday, January 17, 2007 - 8:22 am
I post on another forum with a guy who actually worked at the same place as the Green River killer. I remember him posting about it when the man came under suspicion. I think Ann Rule is one of the best true crime writers in the business.
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Wednesday, January 17, 2007 - 8:52 am
How interesting! I haven't read Ann Rule, but I'll check out her books.
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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Sunday, January 21, 2007 - 11:34 pm
I started thinking which author would I really like to meet and decided it would be Janet Evanovich. She has such a fun spirit in her books. Does any one else have an author they want to meet...if you were granted that opportunity.
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Monday, January 22, 2007 - 12:08 am
Didn't Ann Rule write "The Stranger Beside Me." It was a book about Ted Bundy and she worked on a crisis line with him and was friends with him for a while. I love her books too. I knew a young girl who was killed by the Green River killer. Her mother and her lived in an apartment I rented to them. She went off to have some fun with friends in Washington and never came home.
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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Monday, January 22, 2007 - 10:56 am
We were living in Des Moines (WA) a small town on the Sound just south of Sea-Tac airport. He was dumping bodies all around us and we had two beautiful daughters to keep safe. It was a scarey time! Everyone was jumpy, once DH noticed someone was living in an old shack by the golf course on his way to work. He called the police to report it...just in case it was the Green River Killer. The police was more interested in him, asking his name, age, how tall he was and what was the color of his hair! It seemed that every house had a scanner on listening to the police reports. One day we were going down Pacific Ave just past the airport. School buses were letting kids off and there in all her glory was a hooker. She was smiling at the men in cars and swinging her hips. I was so offended I went home and called the police. It wasn't long before we heard this laughing on the scanner while they told the decoy that she had been turned in by an outrageous citizen.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, January 23, 2007 - 2:54 am
I adore Anne McCaffrey. Ann Rule is a great crime writer. Diane Downs was SCARY.. I got to meet Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Rhonda Britten, Iyanla Vanzant and also Jon Archambault, the illustrator of the children's book Chicka Chicka Boom Boom (I adore the cassette of that book with Ray Charles) He drew a complete tree when he signed my book 
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Bluejaxrock
Member
04-23-2004
| Friday, March 02, 2007 - 7:06 am
I don't think this counts as "meeting" him, but my husband du jour took the family on a vacation to Bangor and I found Stephen King's house. He was in Western Maine at the time, but the gates were open and it looked like the staff was getting it ready for them to come home. I took a lot of pictures - beautiful Victorian home - and even some of his boulevard grass. I put some in a cellophane and brought some back for my sister, too. lol Does that make me a freak? I thought so, too. SK is my favorite author of all time!
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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Friday, March 02, 2007 - 12:36 pm
Can you post the pictures of his house? I'd like to see if it looks like some he has described in his books. About 9 years ago we were in New Orleans and saw Ann Rice's home and it is scarey looking!
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Tuesday, March 06, 2007 - 11:41 am
Has anyone read the book "Scarlett" by alexandra ripley? Thoughts, comments, without giving away the ending?
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Tuesday, March 06, 2007 - 12:30 pm
scarlett goes to ireland
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Tuesday, March 06, 2007 - 12:48 pm
I never read the book only because the author of "Gone with the Wind" Margaret Mitchell said that she would never write a sequel because she didn't want one. I was not pleased that this was allowed...so I didn't read it in protest.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Tuesday, March 06, 2007 - 5:06 pm
LOL. Wasn't a movie made of it?
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Tuesday, March 06, 2007 - 6:30 pm
I think there was a "made for tv" movie made of it. Needless to say...I didn't watch either! lol!
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Wednesday, March 07, 2007 - 8:16 pm
I read the book and watched the movie. Book was ok -- nothing spectacular, but didn't totally blow, either. The movie, however, STUNK! Scarlett didn't even have GREEN eyes!!! How can you possibly cast an actress with BROWN eyes as Scarlett and NOT give her contacts!! Drove me nuts. Also had Timothy Dalton as Rhett -- and he was no Rhett. I don't think I ever re-read the sequel, though, so that says something, too, as I've read GWTW at least half dozen times.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Wednesday, March 07, 2007 - 8:26 pm
I read GWTW by accident in a way. I was off work sick and I was looking around the house for something to read and there was an old copy of GWTW that someone had bought years ago. I started reading it and I was astonished at how much I enjoyed it. I haven't heard a lot of good things about Scarlett but I haven't read it so I can't offer an opinion.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Thursday, March 08, 2007 - 2:22 pm
It wasn't horrible. It drug a lot in a lot of places. Too much Ireland, not enough Rhett/Scarlett, not enough suspense/romance.
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Bluejaxrock
Member
04-23-2004
| Thursday, March 08, 2007 - 10:08 pm
SuperGranny, it was a looonnnngggg time ago, but I think I have a couple of the pics at work and some are in an album somewhere. I had a picture of my at-the-time husband and our daughter in front of the statue of Paul Bunyan - the one that "came alive" in IT. I found other similarities in the town and his descriptions of the creepy little town of Derry. A lot of landmarks in Bangor are mentioned - the library, the standpipe (shudder), the Victorian homes on West Broadway (noted in Insomnia), etc. Even now, when I read Insomnia I can remember exactly where he is talking about. Anyway, I'll find the pictures and figure how and where to post them. Until then, his house is a large Victorian home, red with black shutters, with a wrought-iron fence, whose front gate has, iirc, spiders and webs and bats on the top posts. SK has mentioned that he does indeed have a Secret Window, which is where he got the inspiration. Even though it was over 10 years ago, he was still a hugely successful writer, but his driveway gates were wide open, and I think we could have actually walked up to the open garages and had a look-see...lol Seriously, it was really weird that it was so open.
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Friday, March 16, 2007 - 9:18 am
So I was reading "Born on a Blue Day" by Daniel Tammett last night. The book is writtten by a British autistic savant and offers a keen look into how his brain works. It's quite unusual for someone like him to be able to explain how they think, and I found it fascinating. But here's what surprised me -- At a certain point near the end of the book, he mentions an experience he had in New York -- with someone I know! And I didn't even know that there was this connection until I read the book. Weird, huh?!
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Friday, March 16, 2007 - 9:25 am
A good weird right?
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Rissa
Member
03-20-2006
| Wednesday, May 02, 2007 - 11:49 am
Peter Jackson shops his 'Bones' Not sure where to put this. Peter Jackson has been submitting a screenplay for Alice Sebold's "Lovely Bones" to various studios. I just loved this book, was incredibly powerfull from the uber-intense beginning right through to the last page. Trying to imagine how it would translate to the big screen. I would think they would have to play up the murder-mystery aspect as the emotional plotlines are harder to maintain on film IMO.
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