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Anyone like to read mysteries? I just finished one that had maybe a page and a half, 3/4 of the way through the book, about a sub character that had P. when it first came up....character was outside laying in the sun and when spotted by the main character.....she thought to her self...Wow! here's someone that has been burned or hit to get all those red areas.....and I thought...uh oh!!! psoriasis maybe?.............sure enough! it was....
my opinion of the book....quick reading............ I've read better....but still....an author that knew something about P
it's about a female detective that is incognito in an Amish community....where she is trying to find the culprits that are frightening the Amish people...
Title: DARK HARVEST
AUTHOR: KAREN HARPER
LOCATION: COLUMBUS, OHIO
AUTHOR from Columbus also....
Pat did you see that? Right in your backyard...............
I once read a mystery that was about a serial killer....and dang if I can remember who, what the name of book and author is.
anyway the killer was caught through his dna....flakes found at the scene...even tho it told how he did everything to keep flakes from getting in the scene. He went to Greece every year for the sun....(guess the author never heard about the dead sea......)
Sally,,,,only you can come up with one like this,,,,lol,,,,this is a mystery story right here on our pc's,,,lol
What is a good book to read. I liked the Harry Potter stuff. But im a little to old for that!
Hi Blackcherrypie....Hey your name is so long to print...can I call you krys instead? :D
hahaha....ok blew your cover eh? no problem...... in turning over a new leaf....
anyway I'm 73 and have read all the Harry Potter books...they are for all ages.
but my fav. right now is the book I'm illustrating that Patchsigns (a very nice guy that won't take any lip....he turns the other cheek) and I wrote last winter for kids....we love kids and especially our own P kids.......here on this site......
other than that I devour mysteries.......
My book is a mystery! As the tagline says, it's kind of a Stephen King meets the Hardy Boys story. Kids are involved trying to solve a mystery, but there are some graphic scenes as well.
If I ever hit the big-time as an author, I plan to write a story about a character with P.
There is literary inspiration for me on this subject. In Stephen King's novella THINNER, an old gypsy puts a curse on a character that turns him into a lizard-like man. That's what I feel like during a bad bout of P. I've always felt this would be a good basis for a story on a P-sufferer who overcomes the curse. Thinking of making it a "symbolic" kinda thing.
PRODUCTION NOTE:
Cue Chariots of Fire music....
And they lived happilly ever after!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :cool:
[SIZE=6]THE END!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![/SIZE] :D
LOL SALLY!!!
Hmmmmmm hello Krys? You can change your nick , but your posts show who you used to be...That will always be there.....To be completely anonymous you need another computer ! :) hahahaaaaaa!
I am glad to see you are turning over a new leaf!
OHHH I love a good mystery... some that come to mind... Which one of the dogs tinkled on the carpet? Who ate the last piece of chocolate cake? Where is the remote for the TV?
I'm sorry were we talking about books?
Harry Potter is good, I like the Cat Who series by Lillian Braun, another series I liked was the Left Behind books. Has anyone read them? I really like any books that take place in Amish country. I don't like bios, love stories (yuck all that smooching and lovin) or technical stuff. I do think I have set a new world record, I think I have now read the Wiggles learn their Colors 500 times. Just can't get enough of Greg Wiggle!!!
:D :D :D
OHHH I love a good mystery... some that come to mind... Which one of the dogs tinkled on the carpet?
That is ALWAYS a mystery in MY house! Or, which one of the dogs chewed a hole in my roommate's underwear? LOL I tell her not to leave 'em on the floor! But nooo no one listens to me! :p
Ren,,,you didn't have to emphasize,,,,,,,,,,,HER,,,,,,,,,, we all know the saying,,,,WHEN THE CAT'S AWAY THE MOUSE WILL PLAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;) ;)
Now that would be a good mystery book,,,,,,
Sally,,,start writing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love mysteries as well. Right now I'm hooked on a series by Janet Evanovich call the "Plum series". Has anyone else read these books?
not the plum series but I've read her books....not many mystery authors I haven't read.........I like Sandra Brown mysteries....(not her romance novels) altho they maybe good....I just stick to mysteries! some others I've read recently...Lisa jackson..."The Morning After" about a serial killer that buries his victims alive....... :eek:
Right now I'm reading "Don't Cry Now" by Joy Fielding....I've had it in my bookcase for over a year....and just never got around to reading it....but now that I have I can't put it down........
If you want to read a good series....read James Patterson's mysteries...some have been made into movies .......(KISS THE GIRLS....ALONG CAME A SPIDER.....) ..........he also started a series with 4 women as the heroines, one is a homicide detective, the other a pathologist, a reporter and a psychiatrist....can't remember the titles but just check in the book stores.....
a really good pageturner.......
"WHEN THE WIND BLOWS" very different...very....but EXCELLANT and now the sequel is out "THE LAKE HOUSE" which I haven't read yet.But can't wait......
Hey we need to start a book club.......
I went to your web page and put it in my "fav" so that I can read at my leisure......It looked interesting.........
I see your birthday is in Jan of '65....I have a son born right after you....Mar. of 65.....who also liked to write....til he went off to Univ. and quit writing....guess someone discouraged him........we even signed him up for a creative writing course when he was younger.....oh well guess it's a hard career to break into.......
Do you get the annual book "THE WRITER'S MARKET"? I think it's recommended that an agent is the way to go for getting published....but then you first have to get accepted by an agent.....!
As you probably have read on here ...we are trying to get a children's book published.....a hard thing to do with the limited readers we would have!
But if there is a will.....there is a way.....
good luck to both of us :p
recommended by Flatstanley
````````````````````````Editorial Reviews```````````````````````````
The first of William Gibson's usually futuristic novels to be set in the present, Pattern Recognition is a masterful snapshot of modern consumer culture and hipster esoterica. Set in London, Tokyo, and Moscow, Pattern Recognition takes the reader on a tour of a global village inhabited by power-hungry marketeers, industrial saboteurs, high-end hackers, Russian mob bosses, Internet fan-boys, techno archeologists, washed-out spies, cultural documentarians, and our heroine Cayce Pollard--a soothsaying "cool hunter" with an allergy to brand names.
Pollard is among a cult-like group of Internet obsessives that strives to find meaning and patterns within a mysterious collection of video moments, merely called "the footage," let loose onto the Internet by an unknown source. Her hobby and work collide when a megalomaniac client hires her to track down whoever is behind the footage. Cayce's quest will take her in and out of harm's way in a high-stakes game that ultimately coincides with her desire to reconcile her father’s disappearance during the September 11 attacks in New York.
Although he forgoes his usual future-think tactics, this is very much a William Gibson novel, more so for fans who realize that Gibson's brilliance lies not in constructing new futures but in using astute observations of present-day cultural flotsam to create those futures. With Pattern Recognition, Gibson skips the extrapolation and focuses his acumen on our confusing contemporary world, using the precocious Pollard to personify and humanize the uncertain anxiety, optimistic hope, and downright fear many feel when looking to the future. The novel is filled with Gibson's lyric descriptions and astute observations of modern life, making it worth the read for both cool hunters and their prey. --Jeremy Pugh
Product Description:
Cayce Pollard is an expensive, spookily intuitive market-research consultant. In London on a job, she is offered a secret assignment: to investigate some intriguing snippets of video that have been appearing on the Internet. An entire subculture of people is obsessed with these bits of footage, and anybody who can create that kind of brand loyalty would be a gold mine for Cayce's client. But when her borrowed apartment is burgled and her computer hacked, she realizes there's more to this project than she had expected.
Still, Cayce is her father's daughter, and the danger makes her stubborn. Win Pollard, ex-security expert, probably ex-CIA, took a taxi in the direction of the World Trade Center on September 11 one year ago, and is presumed dead. Win taught Cayce a bit about the way agents work. She is still numb at his loss, and, as much for him as for any other reason, she refuses to give up this newly weird job, which will take her to Tokyo and on to Russia. With help and betrayal from equally unlikely quarters, Cayce will follow the trail of the mysterious film to its source, and in the process will learn something about her father's life and death.
Sally,,,,,not to get off the subject,,,,my daughter was born June 65,,,
my opinion of the book....quick reading............ I've read better....but still....an author that knew something about P
it's about a female detective that is incognito in an Amish community....where she is trying to find the culprits that are frightening the Amish people...
Title: DARK HARVEST
AUTHOR: KAREN HARPER
LOCATION: COLUMBUS, OHIO
AUTHOR from Columbus also....
Pat did you see that? Right in your backyard...............
I once read a mystery that was about a serial killer....and dang if I can remember who, what the name of book and author is.
anyway the killer was caught through his dna....flakes found at the scene...even tho it told how he did everything to keep flakes from getting in the scene. He went to Greece every year for the sun....(guess the author never heard about the dead sea......)
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Sally,,,,only you can come up with one like this,,,,lol,,,,this is a mystery story right here on our pc's,,,lol
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What is a good book to read. I liked the Harry Potter stuff. But im a little to old for that!
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Hi Blackcherrypie....Hey your name is so long to print...can I call you krys instead? :D
hahaha....ok blew your cover eh? no problem...... in turning over a new leaf....
anyway I'm 73 and have read all the Harry Potter books...they are for all ages.
but my fav. right now is the book I'm illustrating that Patchsigns (a very nice guy that won't take any lip....he turns the other cheek) and I wrote last winter for kids....we love kids and especially our own P kids.......here on this site......
other than that I devour mysteries.......
Answers:
My book is a mystery! As the tagline says, it's kind of a Stephen King meets the Hardy Boys story. Kids are involved trying to solve a mystery, but there are some graphic scenes as well.
If I ever hit the big-time as an author, I plan to write a story about a character with P.
There is literary inspiration for me on this subject. In Stephen King's novella THINNER, an old gypsy puts a curse on a character that turns him into a lizard-like man. That's what I feel like during a bad bout of P. I've always felt this would be a good basis for a story on a P-sufferer who overcomes the curse. Thinking of making it a "symbolic" kinda thing.
PRODUCTION NOTE:
Cue Chariots of Fire music....
Answers:
And they lived happilly ever after!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :cool:
[SIZE=6]THE END!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![/SIZE] :D
Answers:
LOL SALLY!!!
Hmmmmmm hello Krys? You can change your nick , but your posts show who you used to be...That will always be there.....To be completely anonymous you need another computer ! :) hahahaaaaaa!
I am glad to see you are turning over a new leaf!
Answers:
OHHH I love a good mystery... some that come to mind... Which one of the dogs tinkled on the carpet? Who ate the last piece of chocolate cake? Where is the remote for the TV?
I'm sorry were we talking about books?
Harry Potter is good, I like the Cat Who series by Lillian Braun, another series I liked was the Left Behind books. Has anyone read them? I really like any books that take place in Amish country. I don't like bios, love stories (yuck all that smooching and lovin) or technical stuff. I do think I have set a new world record, I think I have now read the Wiggles learn their Colors 500 times. Just can't get enough of Greg Wiggle!!!
:D :D :D
Answers:
OHHH I love a good mystery... some that come to mind... Which one of the dogs tinkled on the carpet?
That is ALWAYS a mystery in MY house! Or, which one of the dogs chewed a hole in my roommate's underwear? LOL I tell her not to leave 'em on the floor! But nooo no one listens to me! :p
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Ren,,,you didn't have to emphasize,,,,,,,,,,,HER,,,,,,,,,, we all know the saying,,,,WHEN THE CAT'S AWAY THE MOUSE WILL PLAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;) ;)
Now that would be a good mystery book,,,,,,
Sally,,,start writing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Answers:
I love mysteries as well. Right now I'm hooked on a series by Janet Evanovich call the "Plum series". Has anyone else read these books?
Answers:
not the plum series but I've read her books....not many mystery authors I haven't read.........I like Sandra Brown mysteries....(not her romance novels) altho they maybe good....I just stick to mysteries! some others I've read recently...Lisa jackson..."The Morning After" about a serial killer that buries his victims alive....... :eek:
Right now I'm reading "Don't Cry Now" by Joy Fielding....I've had it in my bookcase for over a year....and just never got around to reading it....but now that I have I can't put it down........
If you want to read a good series....read James Patterson's mysteries...some have been made into movies .......(KISS THE GIRLS....ALONG CAME A SPIDER.....) ..........he also started a series with 4 women as the heroines, one is a homicide detective, the other a pathologist, a reporter and a psychiatrist....can't remember the titles but just check in the book stores.....
a really good pageturner.......
"WHEN THE WIND BLOWS" very different...very....but EXCELLANT and now the sequel is out "THE LAKE HOUSE" which I haven't read yet.But can't wait......
Hey we need to start a book club.......
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I went to your web page and put it in my "fav" so that I can read at my leisure......It looked interesting.........
I see your birthday is in Jan of '65....I have a son born right after you....Mar. of 65.....who also liked to write....til he went off to Univ. and quit writing....guess someone discouraged him........we even signed him up for a creative writing course when he was younger.....oh well guess it's a hard career to break into.......
Do you get the annual book "THE WRITER'S MARKET"? I think it's recommended that an agent is the way to go for getting published....but then you first have to get accepted by an agent.....!
As you probably have read on here ...we are trying to get a children's book published.....a hard thing to do with the limited readers we would have!
But if there is a will.....there is a way.....
good luck to both of us :p
Answers:
recommended by Flatstanley
````````````````````````Editorial Reviews```````````````````````````
The first of William Gibson's usually futuristic novels to be set in the present, Pattern Recognition is a masterful snapshot of modern consumer culture and hipster esoterica. Set in London, Tokyo, and Moscow, Pattern Recognition takes the reader on a tour of a global village inhabited by power-hungry marketeers, industrial saboteurs, high-end hackers, Russian mob bosses, Internet fan-boys, techno archeologists, washed-out spies, cultural documentarians, and our heroine Cayce Pollard--a soothsaying "cool hunter" with an allergy to brand names.
Pollard is among a cult-like group of Internet obsessives that strives to find meaning and patterns within a mysterious collection of video moments, merely called "the footage," let loose onto the Internet by an unknown source. Her hobby and work collide when a megalomaniac client hires her to track down whoever is behind the footage. Cayce's quest will take her in and out of harm's way in a high-stakes game that ultimately coincides with her desire to reconcile her father’s disappearance during the September 11 attacks in New York.
Although he forgoes his usual future-think tactics, this is very much a William Gibson novel, more so for fans who realize that Gibson's brilliance lies not in constructing new futures but in using astute observations of present-day cultural flotsam to create those futures. With Pattern Recognition, Gibson skips the extrapolation and focuses his acumen on our confusing contemporary world, using the precocious Pollard to personify and humanize the uncertain anxiety, optimistic hope, and downright fear many feel when looking to the future. The novel is filled with Gibson's lyric descriptions and astute observations of modern life, making it worth the read for both cool hunters and their prey. --Jeremy Pugh
Product Description:
Cayce Pollard is an expensive, spookily intuitive market-research consultant. In London on a job, she is offered a secret assignment: to investigate some intriguing snippets of video that have been appearing on the Internet. An entire subculture of people is obsessed with these bits of footage, and anybody who can create that kind of brand loyalty would be a gold mine for Cayce's client. But when her borrowed apartment is burgled and her computer hacked, she realizes there's more to this project than she had expected.
Still, Cayce is her father's daughter, and the danger makes her stubborn. Win Pollard, ex-security expert, probably ex-CIA, took a taxi in the direction of the World Trade Center on September 11 one year ago, and is presumed dead. Win taught Cayce a bit about the way agents work. She is still numb at his loss, and, as much for him as for any other reason, she refuses to give up this newly weird job, which will take her to Tokyo and on to Russia. With help and betrayal from equally unlikely quarters, Cayce will follow the trail of the mysterious film to its source, and in the process will learn something about her father's life and death.
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Sally,,,,,not to get off the subject,,,,my daughter was born June 65,,,
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