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Posted on 01/14/2011 8:29:51 AM PST by Travis McGee
When it has that much credibility and inspires that strong a reaction, it's called "GOOD fiction"! ;-)
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Fascinating!!!
Good stuff Mr. Bracken!!!
Regards,
TS
There is a great book covering Berg and that era called, “The Silent Brotherhood.” It’s about the Aryan Nations guys, Bob Matthews, Idaho, armored car robberies, and fatal fires set by the FBI. Great book.
Give them a snappy black uniform, a sub-machinegune and a skull and crossbones pin for their caps and they make terrific death-camp guards.
I might just use Professor Raoul X in some later work. He might work with a shifting first person POV chapter layout. The usual detectives etc are standard first person fare, but I wonder about crawling around inside Duncan’s mind while he’s on a mission. Lots of snakes and loose screws in there, to be writing from the inside out.
The prof is the devil, whether he realizes it or not.
I ran 4 miles at 40 degrees in bright sunshine on dry sidewalks today. Not every hour is spent in the writin’ cave. Just most of them. And my mind is still in the story even when I come out for air.
I’ll check it out, thanks for the tip! Sounds excellent, and any movie with CD will be eye candy no matter what.
Just trying to head them off at the pass, and encourage folks to “look over the shoulders” of madmen killers for a guiding hand.
I can’t help it, it’s my obsession. For some sick reason I like crawling around inside of make-believe psychos’ minds.
That must have hurt.
Really great read and I want more, please!!
Wow! I salute your reading capacity! I live to read and write. For now I don’t foresee a longer version of Professor Raoul X. He is only a construct, a preemptive strike against an actual manipulator like him. If it happens, Raoul X might encourage a few people to look over the shoulder of “lone madmen” for a sign of a guiding hand.
I take Bill Ayers as my evil, terrorist, nihilist academic monster. He even dedicated his first book about the WU to Lucifer. Ayers already had too much fame from his WU days, so he has had to mind his step.
But how many other clever, evil men are their like Ayers, who could take up the hobby of revving up and aiming lost souls? Professor Raoul X is clearly the devil or one of his minions, whether he knows it or not.
Sheesh, one of the perils of fast touch-typing is hitting “send” before previewing. I do know the diferrence betwene there, their and they’re.
If you and your wife like thrillers, check out my three Enemies novels. A quarter or so of each are on my website.
Holy crap! 10-15 each or between the two of you? Are you retired? Some weeks I don't get time to read 15 PAGES.
Seriously? Yecch, what a creep. Maybe they'll get to meet someday.
Che Guevara was a classic example. Castro played him like a fiddle and used his brand of insanity for evil ends.
Professor Raoul X is only a one-off to describe a type of serial killer once removed. He’s not part of anything else.
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