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Re: Name the best modern mystery book for a new reader please

smoor...@comcast.net (Stanley Moore) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:40:05 UT

IIRC the Hudge Dee series are set in ChIna and feature a mystery with a love
interest as well. Take care

Re: Name the best modern mystery book for a new reader please

smoor...@comcast.net (Stanley Moore) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:38:45 UT

The problem with Spenser is the romance is lacking due to the obnoxious
attitude of the girlfriend who is pretty unappealing. Take care

Re: Name the best modern mystery book for a new reader please

smoor...@comcast.net (Stanley Moore) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:36:11 UT

Look into Suzanne Brockman. There are many others who write just such books.
Take care

Re: Name the best modern mystery book for a new reader please

smoor...@comcast.net (Stanley Moore) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:35:04 UT

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There is a genre of Romance slash Mystery boks that might appeal to you.
Suzanne Brockman writes them but there are many others. They are a
combination of action adventure and romance which Brockman does well. There
are the usual conventions of romance... boys meets girl, girl hates boy, boy

Re: H1H1

ell...@webtv.net — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:30:03 UT

<<Hot donuts for breakfast? Maybe they'll deliver.

Re: Name the best modern mystery book for a new reader please

cas1...@yahoo.com (ConnieM) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:33:58 UT

On Nov 17, 7:03 pm, meowmix at Vancouver <meow...@vancouver.com>
wrote:
Try Jane Haddam's Gregor Demarkian series: well-written, fun, a little
romance and ideas. Fun for smart people. ConnieM

Re: WOT: Health Care

smoor...@comcast.net (Stanley Moore) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:23:22 UT

In fairness because Medicare doesn't cover ALL of the cost it is vitally
improtant to have a Medigap policy to cover the difference. My parents
situation might have been very different without Blue Clue SHield coverage
which thye had to pay premiums for. Obviously the companies that sell these
policies are making a profit on ti somehow. In the case of seniors a

Re: WOT: Health Care

smoor...@comcast.net (Stanley Moore) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:13:33 UT

Which is why most folks buy a medigap policy that covers the 20% not paid by
Medicare. Most doctors and hospitals take the "usual and customary" fees
that Medicare pays as full payment. Blue Cross Blue Shield and AARP as well
as many others sell these policies that pay what Medicare won't. In my

Re: Texas outlaws marriage

smoor...@comcast.net (Stanley Moore) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:07:26 UT

That's a bit extreme. Judges in Texas are "fired" by the voters not by
anyone else. The federal government is directly responsible for the Texas
situation in regard to elected judges. After 1865 the federal government
took over the government apparatus in the formerly Confederate states under
the rubric of "Reconstruction". The arrogance and gross injustices that

Re: Texas outlaws marriage

annie_...@yahoo.com (Annie C) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:04:29 UT

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heh, heh..
glad to see someone's keeping the great RAM traditition alive ;-)
John P

Re: Another one gone

annie_...@yahoo.com (Annie C) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:44:22 UT

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Oh, that's a shame. He was one great scriptwriter.
Obit here [link]
You can watch th Chuckles episode on YouTube in 3 parts..
Part 1 [link]
Part 2 [link]

Re: Anyone read Marcia Muller?

annie_...@yahoo.com (Annie C) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:18:25 UT

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Must take a stand on the opposite side, ( as much as I love you, Ellen ;-).
I'd never discourage anyone from reading that book and thought it was an
absolutely amazing first novel. And it is unforgettable. However, no
nightmares or flashbacks haunted me, but great sadness, yes, thinking how

Re: OT--help finding book

famini...@comcast.net (Francis A. Miniter) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:08:23 UT

I checked back as far as 10-18-09. The only book I find
that seems to fit is reviewed in the October 25, 2009 NYT
BkRevSec. The review is entitled "God Gets Graphic" and the
book is a comic book version of Genesis illustrated by R.
Crumb.
Is that it?

Re: How to freshen up a detective series

annie_...@yahoo.com (Annie C) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:06:29 UT

The actual reason Rankin quit writing Rebus was because the character
reached retirement age in the real world of the Scottish police. IR was
writing Rebus in real time. It wasn't because we fans had reached a point
where we were buying the next in series because of anything resembling
gruding loyalty. Anything but. But I do agree that Spenser can go off to the

Re: OT--help finding book

jmel...@verizon.net (J) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:06:14 UT

That would be Sikoryak's MASTERPIECE COMICS, reviewed in the Times on
October 4:
<< Dagwood and Blondie are Adam and Eve, Garfield the Cat is
Mephistopheles, and Batman, above, is an ax-wielding “Raskol” in this
book of parodies by Sikoryak, a New York cartoonist. He also sends up,
among others, Beckett, Camus, Dante, Kafka and Shakespeare. >>