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Post by Killer Goldfish on May 29, 2019 15:57:42 GMT -5
Finished 
and started 
while continuing to work on
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Post by Marxo Grouch on May 30, 2019 4:57:13 GMT -5
I really, really dislike James Ellroy.
Meanwhile, I'm reading a collection of short stories by Shirley Jackson. I read 'The Lottery' years ago, of course, but I had never read anything else she had written, until I read a novel last year that I really liked. She has an offbeat sensibility and a way of subtly playing with the reality of her scenarios. I get some of the same out of her, in a more muffled way, as I get from David Lynch: you're engaged with what's happening, when you realize that something, somehow, is just...off. |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on May 30, 2019 5:05:01 GMT -5
The person, or the writer (or both)?
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Post by Marxo Grouch on May 30, 2019 5:06:47 GMT -5
That's so weird. I'd swear I just posted that, and yet the board says I posted it eight minutes ago and Kobb has already replied. |
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Post by Marxo Grouch on May 30, 2019 5:09:22 GMT -5
But to answer your question, both, sort of. He's a very accomplished writer, no doubt, but his attitude towards society is shit. He's very authoritarian, for one thing. Also, I've heard him interviewed, and he's often belligerent just for the sake of it.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on May 30, 2019 6:45:49 GMT -5
That's so weird. I'd swear I just posted that, and yet the board says I posted it eight minutes ago and Kobb has already replied. Ha Ha! Yeah, your whole parapgraph after mentioning not liking the author hadn't even showed up when I replied. That is weird. |
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Post by Marxo Grouch on May 31, 2019 5:11:56 GMT -5
Well, it does say that I edited the post, so I guess I just forgot that I had gone back into it (stay away from drugs, kids!). It was just disconcerting when I hit the Post button, and my own post raced past me to be replaced with Kobb's. It was trippy, and then disturbing, and now slightly embarrassing.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on May 31, 2019 17:57:44 GMT -5
Kobbers, it's all that damn hairspray you're wearing that's fouling the gears on the site.
Honestly, I dislike Ellroy a lot too -- at least when he's writing fiction. But this one is almost entirely crime scene photos and his THIS IS NOIR AS HELL, DAMMIT commentary is almost entirely superfluous to those.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jun 1, 2019 14:45:47 GMT -5
FYI, in the final analysis, Ellroy's book sucked socks.
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Jun 3, 2019 19:30:06 GMT -5
Think I might read this one again...  |
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Jun 3, 2019 19:41:02 GMT -5
Goldie, you and other ZAQBers might have remembered that I have said that years ago, my interest in true crime stories began to wayne, and it's pretty much gone today.
That doesn't mean that I have forgotten some of my "favorite" ones altho using that term certainly does not mean that I like what the true criminals did.
I can't remember if you had your True Crime interest when you first helped me out in getting onto the Mesmerize board (I have saved a good bit of it, so I can check out whether you posted on true crime stories then or not.
Just how long have you had your True Crime stories interest?
I'd say that my interest in the subject really got into high gear in the early 1970s. Maybe you can see how that interest could have run its course, and really faded by the late 1990s.
It seems that your True Crime interest is still going very strong. Do you think you will ever,like myself, get enough of it and loose interest, as I have done.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jun 3, 2019 21:25:38 GMT -5
Goldie, you and other ZAQBers might have remembered that I have said that years ago, my interest in true crime stories began to wayne, and it's pretty much gone today. That doesn't mean that I have forgotten some of my "favorite" ones altho using that term certainly does not mean that I like what the true criminals did. I can't remember if you had your True Crime interest when you first helped me out in getting onto the Mesmerize board (I have saved a good bit of it, so I can check out whether you posted on true crime stories then or not. Just how long have you had your True Crime stories interest? I'd say that my interest in the subject really got into high gear in the early 1970s. Maybe you can see how that interest could have run its course, and really faded by the late 1990s. It seems that your True Crime interest is still going very strong. Do you think you will ever,like myself, get enough of it and loose interest, as I have done. I was changed forever after my best friend loaned me her dad's copy of "Helter Skelter" when we were 12. This was in 1976. I did not know until years later that TC was a genre, but at some point as an undergrad I took a course in the subject and this put me in the TC gulfstream. I have swum there frequently ever since. Of course I'm a Detroiter so it's in my blood anyway, but there has been more than a little crime in my life and I've called even more into my circle by working in rape crisis centers and battered women's shelters. Sometimes I'll read one and think, Ahhh, that was my final exam in this subject. That's what I was looking for. But then another crosses my path and it gives me something more... |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 4, 2019 3:37:12 GMT -5
With this wealth of knowledge and insight, have you ever pursued cold cases in real life? Apparently, there's a whole community of amateur sleuths out there, trying to get the "ones that got away" behind bars. I think they mostly just use the internet to look for clues that might've been missed, though some probably go so far as to visit crime scenes, even years after the fact.
I wish I had that kind of free time. Not that I'd be devoted to amateur detective work. I've never had a head for puzzles and such.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jun 6, 2019 13:02:22 GMT -5
With this wealth of knowledge and insight, have you ever pursued cold cases in real life? Apparently, there's a whole community of amateur sleuths out there, trying to get the "ones that got away" behind bars. I think they mostly just use the internet to look for clues that might've been missed, though some probably go so far as to visit crime scenes, even years after the fact.
I wish I had that kind of free time. Not that I'd be devoted to amateur detective work. I've never had a head for puzzles and such.
I haven't. I figure if the police can't get a handle on it how am I going to? I don't have their resources, their experience, their anything. Now, if I were someone with special knowledge to offer -- if I were able to reconstruct the face on an unidentified skull (secret unpursued dream job #1) or owned a genealogy DNA database -- then we could talk. |
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jun 6, 2019 15:33:05 GMT -5
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 8, 2019 0:02:44 GMT -5
I can't wait to crack cover on this one again! I forget exactly where and when I lost my original copy of this volume (purchased at Walden Books in the mall back in `77 when I was in 6th grade or so). I've lost so many books to water damage in some of the cheap living quarters I've resided in over the years. This book had a lot to do with me being the horror geek I am to this day. It is going to be such a treat to sit down with it again after literally three or even four decades apart! 
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jun 10, 2019 21:45:54 GMT -5
After I saw an old ad from a women's magazine with a recipe by Vincent Price that involved sauteed hotdogs doused in Angostura bitters and celery salt, served on skewers, I sent away for the hardcover edition of COOKING PRICE-WISE. If this is what they mean when they say he was a gourmet cook, well, I have to see it with my own eyes.
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Jun 11, 2019 2:53:26 GMT -5
At the public library yesterday, I could have gotten, from the for free book section, a copy of Brother to a Dragonfly by Will D. Campbell.
But, time is rapidly running out for me, and this long disease my life is getting closer and closer to its end, although, in earlier days, I would have taken that book and re-read it over and over again.
It's just like my interest in True Crime stories. As Dr. Julius No told James Bond, "there is so much to discuss, and so little time."
My shack is so cluttered up with so much stuff, that to add another book, hardcover, or paperback, would only make things worse.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 11, 2019 3:38:37 GMT -5
Yeah, I still read constantly but habits have changed over the years. Been a while since I was immersed in a full novel like I used to get. You know, where you literally lose 2-4 hours of sleep to find out whodunit. Now I love stuff that I can just open at random and read a bit. Movie guides are a a big draw. Things with short articles.
Similarly feeling the wear and tear of the years here, too. Eyes are almost too tired after a long night putting shit on shelves. I try not to dwell on mortality though. We all gotta go sometime. I have no illusions about that. I just plug along. Things (for me) could and have certainly been worse.
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Post by El Santo on Jun 19, 2019 13:26:56 GMT -5
After I saw an old ad from a women's magazine with a recipe by Vincent Price that involved sauteed hotdogs doused in Angostura bitters and celery salt, served on skewers, I sent away for the hardcover edition of COOKING PRICE-WISE. If this is what they mean when they say he was a gourmet cook, well, I have to see it with my own eyes.
Brother Ragnarok recently acquired one of Price's more serious cookbooks, and has thereby become the one person posting his fucking dinner on Facebook whose posts in that vein are actually interesting. The book was still aimed at American consumers of the mid-20th century, so a lot of it rates noticeably on the "Really? Are you sure?" scale, but most of what he's chosen to cook from it so far genuinely looks tasty. |
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