SIDEBAR #52 - Travis Alexander forum

[neesaki]

Go Set a Watchman was the book she wrote first- she wrote To Kill A Mockingbird because her publisher wouldn't publish Watchman and told her to write another.

I know, YorN. Maybe my post was confusing. I just think she should have A) rewritten the Watchman, or B) refused to publish it at all. Iow, Once the character of Atticus was set in Mockingbird, the Watchman should have been shelved. They are two completely different characters, from my understanding. That's just my opinion of course, which ultimately means nothing. It's just a crying shame... JMO :seeya:

 

[neesaki]

I tried to read Harry Potter and it couldn't hold my interest. I thought it was childish and silly. My younger son loved it.
Another best seller, the Twilight books, that my son's girlfriend highly recommended, was another disappointment to me.
It's a teenager's book, IMO, and bored me to tears, but the girlfriend is very young and likes different things (which is OK).
The girlfriend borrowed my book about vampires, Interview with the Vampire, which I love, and she hated it. :floorlaugh::floorlaugh:
She finally remembered to return my Interview WTV when they stopped up here last week and I told her that I thought the Twilight book
was for teenagers (she didn't like that- well she asked me my opinion on Twilight and I gave it. :facepalm: )

So- go figure. :dunno:

Yes, childish and silly, that's my initial take on the first part of the first book I've just begun reading. I guess I'm too used to Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and... the list goes on. I could see me reading this book to a child, except for all the witches and goblins and wizards and spells, and so forth.... so I don't know that I would have read it to my son way back then. I at least would have had reservations. I mean, for an adult, Stephen King is one thing, but for a child, witches and goblins are another, at least IMO. Maybe I'm too old fashioned and overprotective though.

 

[daisymae]

:blushing:

so what else happened on that moonlight night, Page?

 

[neesaki]

I was never a Harry Potter fan. I saw two of the movies and it wasn't for me. When my mother died in 1974, I found several books by Mary Stewart, and found many at half priced books. I think my favorite was Airs Above Ground. It went from a circus life, stolen goods, international smuggling, and an old mystery involving the disappearance of a famed Lipizzaner stallion and his groom.

She help start the romantic mystery genre, featuring smart, adventurous heroines who could hold their own in dangerous situations. She written children's books and poetry, but is best known for her Merlin series, which straddles the boundary between the historical novel and fantasy.


Then you have Rosemary Rodgers 's "Sweet Savage Love" in 1974. Her's were more steamy then Mary Stewart's. Lots of pale flesh, swooning and heaving breasts, and his throbbing manhood against your silken thighs in the moonlight.

damn I need a cigarette and I don't smoke.

[video=youtube;IZr6AE-u2UM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=IZr6AE-u2UM[/video]

Rosemary Rodgers... :thinking: I read one of her books, or two, way back when. Don't remember what though. Will have to think about it.

 

[YESorNO]

I was never a Harry Potter fan. I saw two of the movies and it wasn't for me. When my mother died in 1974, I found several books by Mary Stewart, and found many at half priced books. I think my favorite was Airs Above Ground. It went from a circus life, stolen goods, international smuggling, and an old mystery involving the disappearance of a famed Lipizzaner stallion and his groom.

She help start the romantic mystery genre, featuring smart, adventurous heroines who could hold their own in dangerous situations. She written children's books and poetry, but is best known for her Merlin series, which straddles the boundary between the historical novel and fantasy.


Then you have Rosemary Rodgers 's "Sweet Savage Love" in 1974. Her's were more steamy then Mary Stewart's. Lots of pale flesh, swooning and heaving breasts, and his throbbing manhood against your silken thighs in the moonlight.

damn I need a cigarette and I don't smoke.

[video=youtube;IZr6AE-u2UM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=IZr6AE-u2UM[/video]

BBM regular or menthol??? :floorlaugh:

You're too, too funny :hilarious: Take a cold shower. :facepalm:

Didn't that guy, Fabio, pose for many romance novel covers way back when?

I read one of those romance novels and decided it wasn't for me- men do not act or talk the way the men did in those novels- at least the men
I knew. :facepalm:

I really enjoyed some of Allison Weir's historical books about King Henry VII:
The Six Wives of Henry VII, The Children of Henry VII, and Mary Bolelyn (sp?)

 

[YESorNO]

I know, YorN. Maybe my post was confusing. I just think she should have A) rewritten the Watchman, or B) refused to publish it at all. Iow, Once the character of Atticus was set in Mockingbird, the Watchman should have been shelved. They are two completely different characters, from my understanding. That's just my opinion of course, which ultimately means nothing. It's just a crying shame... JMO :seeya:

BBM I agree completely.

 

[Wing Ding]

And just so they don't feel left out... here's my favorite Doobies song

"... Goin' back I'm too tired to roam, Loma Prieta my mountain home
On the hills above Santa Cruz, to the place where I spent my youth..."

[video=youtube;JsvqK4A3X48]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsvqK4A3X48[/video]

 

[GigiG]

Ummm, Journey, Duran Duran, Abba, The Doobie Brothers and Three Dog Night are not the 60's era, Journey and Duran Duran are the 80's, the others are the 70's... Just sayin'. I just started a DePeche Mode station on Pandora radio.

Personal Jesus!

 

[YESorNO]

Yes, childish and silly, that's my initial take on the first part of the first book I've just begun reading. I guess I'm too used to Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and... the list goes on. I could see me reading this book too a child, except for all the witches and goblins and wizards and spells, and so forth.... so I don't know that I would have read it to my son way back then. I at least would have had reservations. I mean, for an adult, Stephen King is one thing, but for a child, witches and goblins are another, at least IMO. Maybe I'm too old fashioned and overprotective though.

Just love, love Stephen King and Dean Koontz

 

[Wing Ding]

Personal Jesus!

To add:

Walking In My Shoes

It's No Good

Precious

Stripped

 

[neesaki]

Just love, love Stephen King and Dean Koontz

Me too ! My bookshelves are full of their books, some I've read multiple times. Love, love them. :skip: :skip::skip:

 

[Spellbound]

WingDing..... I just noticed your signature line! :hilarious:

 

[ILikeToBendPages]

Me too ! My bookshelves are full of their books, some I've read multiple times. Love, love them. :skip: :skip::skip:

Have you ever read John D. MacDonald books? His Travis McGee series? I laughed at his description of a passionate night. I guess that is what goes through a guy's mind at those times.

Anyway they have a color theme. It started with the Deep Blue Goodbye and the last was The Lonely Silver Rain in .

He also wrote The Executioners which has been filmed twice as Cape Fear

He has been praised by Stephen King and Dean Koontz has said "(His) favorite author of all time... I've read everything he wrote four or five times."


He also wrote A Deadly Drug about Dr. Carl. Coppolino who gav his wife Carmela an overdose in the form of an injection of the anaesthetic succinylcholine chloride. That was the firs time I heard of the drug. Then next time was during the Genene Jone's trial. She was up for parole last year and it was denied,

"State officials also said Jones received what is called a "serve all," which means Jones will not be eligible for another parole review before her mandatory release in February 2018." She was given 99 years, but Texas had crowed prisons at the time and you earned "good time" and got out early.

 

[ILikeToBendPages]

1951 - Citation becomes 1st horse to win $1,000,000 in races

[video=youtube;y1OWvij5ZWI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=y1OWvij5ZWI[/video]

 

[LinasK]

I think you meant to say Journey was a 70's band, right LinasK? Although they were certainly more commercial and more popular in the 80's, their first album was released in 1975, but they didn't really make a name for themselves until Perry came aboard in '77 for their fourth album, Infinity, which was huge and put them on the map.

One of my favorite early, pre-Perry Journey tunes is the lengthy, proggy-sounding "Look Into The Future". Actually it's probably the only pre-Perry Journey song I like. Neal Schon's melodies, riffs, solos, fills and flangy effects are perfect all the way through, and... as much as it pains me to say this... Greg Rollie's vocals and keyboard work never sounded better.

[video=youtube;5i38vu0HMvM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i38vu0HMvM[/video]

PS- if you're perhaps interested in a few DM remixes to add to your Pandora channel, let me know via PM.

Actually my college roommate introduced me to them in 1978, but the 80's were their heyday, and yes of course I have a dedicated Journey channel! I saw a tribute band of them a couple of years ago at the fair- I think their name was Evolution.

 

[LinasK]

Just love, love Stephen King and Dean Koontz

My daughter just discovered Stephen King. She started The Shining.

 

[ILikeToBendPages]

1962 - Bobby Vinton's Roses Are Red (My Love) hits #1.

[video=youtube;dfpv_hMBa-4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=dfpv_hMBa-4[/video]

 

[LinasK]

Have you ever read John D. MacDonald books? His Travis McGee series? I laughed at his description of a passionate night. I guess that is what goes through a guy's mind at those times.

Anyway they have a color theme. It started with the Deep Blue Goodbye and the last was The Lonely Silver Rain in .

He also wrote The Executioners which has been filmed twice as Cape Fear

He has been praised by Stephen King and Dean Koontz has said "(His) favorite author of all time... I've read everything he wrote four or five times."


He also wrote A Deadly Drug about Dr. Carl. Coppolino who gav his wife Carmela an overdose in the form of an injection of the anaesthetic succinylcholine chloride. That was the firs time I heard of the drug. Then next time was during the Genene Jone's trial. She was up for parole last year and it was denied,

"State officials also said Jones received what is called a "serve all," which means Jones will not be eligible for another parole review before her mandatory release in February 2018." She was given 99 years, but Texas had crowed prisons at the time and you earned "good time" and got out early.

Succinycholine has been used in a couple of other murders. This Republican Congresswoman from Arizona (Kathy Augustine) was killed by her nurse husband and he may have killed her former husband, and another male nurse Oliver O'Quinn? on the East coast killed a girl who rejected him and he fled to Ireland, but they were able to bring him back for trial.

 

[ILikeToBendPages]

1989 - "Judge Judy" Sheindlin, not yet a TV star and still a Family Court judge in New York, orders singer Tom Jones to pay $200 weekly in child support to model Katherine Berkery.

I can't find one with Tom Jones, but I did of Gus Scercy deadbeat dad.

[video=youtube;Y0ehd7zVwvQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Y0ehd7zVwvQ[/video]

 

[Wing Ding]

Ah, yes... Succinylcholine. As with guns and sharp knives, one more thing I have to remember to keep away from my wife. (<~~ kidding!)

I remember this drug featured in the Shannon Mohr story on American Justice back in the early 2000's. If not for the vigilance of her surviving parents, it really was the perfect murder. The other A.J. episode that really creeped me out was the story of George Trepal poisoning his neighbors with Thallium. Thankfully, Trepal today is also where HE belongs.