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Free Republic Book Club, Week of 3/12/05

Posted on 03/12/2005 8:24:51 PM PST by Tanniker Smith

Welcome to the Free Republic Book Club

This week's topic, as noted last week, is mysteries.
Next week's topic has yet to be determined.

New comers are welcome. Feel free to ask to be added to the ping list. (Feel free to ask more than once if your name slips through the cracks.)

New threads are posted every Saturday. This thread is informal, but please respect the general rules of F.R.

Discuss.


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Thank you to all who participated in last week's discussion of historical fiction. Last week's thread can be found here.

My apologies for the lateness of this posting, but it has been one really hectic week, and another one is starting tomorrow.

A few items that I need to bring up: first, if you check this thread and notice that no one has posted yet in a given day, feel free to give it a bump so newcomers have a chance to stumble across our little club.

Second, we need a topic for next week. I'm open as to how to pick it.

Third, I will be at a science fiction convention next weekend, so I won't be able to start a new thread unless it's started on Friday (early afternoon) or sometime on Monday. Sunday night is probably out -- besides being Palm Sunday, I usually only average about 6 hours sleep for the weekend (the whole thing, not per night).

Now let us discuss -- whodunit!

TS

1 posted on 03/12/2005 8:24:52 PM PST by Tanniker Smith
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To: Tanniker Smith

Is this a new group?


2 posted on 03/12/2005 8:26:17 PM PST by Land_of_Lincoln_John
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To: Tanniker Smith

Just finished INTELLECTUAL MORONS by Flynn.

Highly reccomended, but he is against the war, be warned about that chapter

Also finished WAR STORIES part 2, Ollie North, stories from the Pacific, great read.


3 posted on 03/12/2005 8:27:48 PM PST by RaceBannon ((Prov 28:1 KJV) The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.)
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To: Land_of_Lincoln_John

Man, that was quick. I haven't even dug out the ping list yet!


4 posted on 03/12/2005 8:32:28 PM PST by Tanniker Smith (Anyone going to Lunacon, March 18-20, 2005 in NJ?)
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To: 506trooper; aberaussie; Alberta's Child; AQGeiger; arbee4bush; Ax; Brasil; Burn24; ...
Mystery ping to you all.

The butler did it.

5 posted on 03/12/2005 8:34:35 PM PST by Tanniker Smith (Anyone going to Lunacon, March 18-20, 2005 in NJ?)
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To: Tanniker Smith
Sigh. I linked the wrong week. Here is last week's thread.

TS

6 posted on 03/12/2005 8:37:58 PM PST by Tanniker Smith (Anyone going to Lunacon, March 18-20, 2005 in NJ?)
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To: Tanniker Smith
bookmark - no pun intended
7 posted on 03/12/2005 8:39:28 PM PST by clyde asbury (What a fool believes, he sees. The wise man has the power to reason away.)
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To: alisasny

ping. Sorry, mess up your id on the ping list. fixed it.


8 posted on 03/12/2005 8:40:06 PM PST by Tanniker Smith (Anyone going to Lunacon, March 18-20, 2005 in NJ?)
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To: Tanniker Smith

please add me to your ping list!


9 posted on 03/12/2005 8:40:33 PM PST by Mrs.Liberty (All your TH are belong to us.)
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To: Tanniker Smith

Add me to the ping list please.


10 posted on 03/12/2005 8:41:25 PM PST by CindyDawg
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To: Tanniker Smith

Can I get on the list too, please? And I always enjoyed the Robert Parker mysteries. For funny mysteries, check out Carl Hiaasen. He has written some very funny stories..


11 posted on 03/12/2005 8:46:25 PM PST by cardinal4 (George W Bush-Bringing a new democracy every term..)
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To: Tanniker Smith
Aaron Elkins

The Dark Place

A very good anthropological murder mystery. Some nice historical (anthropological) accuracy.

No, the butler did not do it. Hint, murder weapon: atl-atl.

12 posted on 03/12/2005 8:46:31 PM PST by Coyoteman
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To: Coyoteman; Tanniker Smith; RaceBannon

Have any of you read Shadow of Deception, by Gary Carmody?

I am wondering if it's worth the read.


13 posted on 03/12/2005 8:52:36 PM PST by borntobeagle
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To: Tanniker Smith
So my first mysteries would probably be the ones that Mr. G. made us read in the tenth grade. (I was never much for Encyclopedia Brown or the Hardy Boys before that.) He had us read Sherlock Holmes books (thanks to him, I read the four novels over two years) and a couple of Agatha Christie.

Q: are Sherlock Holmes stories mysteries? The reader can't really solve them. Information is held back. This is not that case with Christie books. The clues are there if you can put them together.

TS

14 posted on 03/12/2005 8:52:42 PM PST by Tanniker Smith (Anyone going to Lunacon, March 18-20, 2005 in NJ?)
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To: Tanniker Smith

please add me to your ping list also...


15 posted on 03/12/2005 8:57:18 PM PST by Katya (Homo Nosce Te Ipsum)
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To: Tanniker Smith

Michael Connelly,John Sandford,Laurence Block are my favorites.

I'm reading Greg Bean now----one of his Victory,WY books.


16 posted on 03/12/2005 8:59:28 PM PST by Mears ("Call me irresponsible".)
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To: Tanniker Smith; Miss Marple
So my first mysteries would probably be the ones that Mr. G. made us read in the tenth grade.

My first mysteries were the Happy Hollisters series.

Anyone else remember Pete, Pam, Ricky, Holly and Sue?

As to adult fare, Miss Marple stories by Agatha Christie (pinging our own Miss M!) and I do consider Sherlock Holmes to be mysteries.

I need to ponder something to recommend that might be different.

(I have lots of Perry Mason paperbacks I got from my grandmother...I read them all when I first acquired them years ago...)

17 posted on 03/12/2005 9:03:54 PM PST by cyncooper
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To: Tanniker Smith

Has anyone read this "mystery novel"?

Analyzing The Anthrax Attacks
by Edward G. Lake
Edition: Paperback

Product Description:
A comprehensive, detailed analysis of all the publicly available information about the anthrax attacks of 2001.
The book presents known facts, analyzes those facts and presents conclusions as to what the facts mean.

Errors by the FBI, the CDC, by other government organizations and by the media are examined. Conspiracy theories are debunked. Facts are laid out for examination.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0976616300/qid=1110515842/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-2205720-9800925?v=glance&s=books


18 posted on 03/12/2005 9:47:07 PM PST by Gene Vidocq
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To: cyncooper

My classmates read "The Happy Hollisters," while I checked out "The Hardy Boys." I really liked "The Mark on the Door." The newer HB series, where one of the girlfriends gets blown up in a car bombing, doesn't quite suit me, though.


19 posted on 03/12/2005 10:20:01 PM PST by Galactic Overlord-In-Chief (Any Freepers who enjoy fantasy, I welcome to look at my FR homepage to take a look at my new book)
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To: Tanniker Smith

Please add me to your book ping list!

My favorite "new" mysteries are Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey books. I had the misfortune of starting with THE NINE TAILORS, which really didn't suit me, but then started at the beginning of the series with WHOSE BODY? and was rewarded by getting totally sucked into the series! I love Lord Peter (who, I suspect, is a remote ancestor of Miles Vorkosigan, if I may mention a SF hero -- of sorts), and it was such fun to see Sayers develop his character throughout the series. I also love Harriet Vane, whom Sayers introduces as his romantic foil late in the series. Just too, too much for for an anglophile like me! (And Sayers is good about giving you all the clues you need.)


20 posted on 03/13/2005 12:02:34 AM PST by Hetty_Fauxvert (http://sonoma-moderate.blogspot.com/)
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