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January 30, 2005 |
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Well-Written
FOUND by Rain Havoc
Found within the pages of a book about Ted Bundy, the serial killer, in a used bookstore
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
oh wow. i have read that book.
and it is fucking well written
Creepy. Wonder who wrote it?
yes. I have read that book, too, and I agree. That's a weird t on top of the Don't
What high praise, coming from such an articulate note-writer! : )
A quick check of Amazon.com suggests that there have been at least eight books written about Ted Bundy, yet we all agree we know which one she means. Not to be too critical, but "well written" should not be hyphenated. Nevertheless, this is a nicely succinct book review and a good find. Too bad it wasn't found in a copy of "The Brothers Karamozov" or perhaps "Pat the Bunny." In my opinion, Ann Rule isn't that great a writer. Thank you, Cindy, for your enjoyable comment.
'Midlife crisis' is a bit anal.Mellow out,this is all just for fun.
"A bit anal"? That hurts. To make amends for your harsh remark, would you consider putting a space after your periods?
"A bit anal"? Crisis, if you're "tossing the salad" correctly, it shouldn't hurt. What?!! That's a bit anal, isn't it?
And L won't get a space after her periods if her salad's getting tossed.
After the comma, too, please, L.
Unworthy, I think I'm gonna toss my cookies.
On to the find: To me, it really looks like it says "don't brow if you've already read this..." which I at first interpreted it to mean "don't borrow if you've already read this..."
That word just does NOT look like "know" to me.
these are the best comments, ever! btw, there is a book out there on Ted Bundy whose author was such a fucking good writer that she was featured on Writer's Almanac, hosted by Garrison Keillor. so there.
ok, that was bugging me, so I looked it up. Here's the blurb:
"It's the birthday of the true-crime writer Ann Rule, (books by this author) born Ann Stackhouse in Lowell, Michigan (1935), who wanted to be a police officer. But she had bad eyesight, so she started writing about criminals instead. In 1975, she signed a contract to write a book about a series of unsolved murders of women in the Seattle area, and when the police announced the main suspect, she was horrified to realize she knew the man, a charming law student named Ted Bundy. She'd volunteered with him at a suicide hotline center, and he'd often walked her to her car. She couldn't believe that he was the killer of more than 35 women, and when she saw the evidence, she became physically ill. She eventually uncovered the fact that all of his victims resembled his ex-fiancée, who had rejected him. Rule took just 90 days to write her book The Stranger Beside Me (1980), which became one of the best-selling true crime books ever written."
I rest my case. :-)
NPR Nerd: I love your passion. If you get a chance to read "The Stranger Beside Me," please come back and tell me what you thought of the writing.
ok, California, I read it. My personal favorite passage: "The prison is fifty yards beyond. It is not a modern concrete fortress; it is an old prison, stucco and faintly greenish white--not unlike the pallor of the inmates it holds."
Let's hope she isn't asked to write any more afterwords for the next edition (gaah!)
"Dom brow if yorve already road thus, kut it's pretty fueling well-writson."
This "well-written" note really motivated me to check out the book, "The Stranger Beside Me" by Ann Rule. I almost done and I cannot put it down. I too recommend it.
I hope this wasn't found in "The Stranger Beside Me." That book was terribly written, although the subject was interesting.
Maybe the person wrote this note because Ann Rule is not such a great writer and they were surprised that someone could actually write a decent book about Ted Bundy?
. . . HOW DO ANY OF YOU KNOW IT WAS "THE STRANGER BESIDE ME"?! Just because that book may have been well-written, it doesn't mean that no other books about Ted Bundy were well-written.
. . . So that's my two cents =D