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Do Not Fold, Spindle, Or Mutilate
After filling out a computer dating service card with a fictional name, Sophie's clowning days were about to come to an abrupt end. For one of her suitors was very, very serious. And he would make sure that this was Sophie's last laugh...
- GenresMystery
191 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1970
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December 6, 2017
Rating: 3* of five
My gawd, the world was a rapey place. Was?! Listen at me, was. This silliness was amusing until I got to the murder. I'm seriously skeeved out by stalker stuff and rape. It horrifies and disgusts me and I can't see why it's amusing.
Why three stars? Well now. Because of its television movie starring Myrna Loy, Sylvia Sidney, Helen Hayes, and Mildred Natwick. It's not very faithful to the book. It's pretty much a still-skeevy weird hybrid of rape culture and old-lady chic. But that cast...!
There is a scene early in the film that made me turn it off, then a month later zip past it, so trigger warning for other rape survivors. Skip from 12:50 to 14:20 if you want to look at it at all. The cast snagged me, old Hollywood royalty fan that I am, and in the end Justice is Done.
The title is a reference to the antique computer punch card technology that was supercool around that time. I was also shocked and awed that the idea of computer dating existed in 1970!! What!! NO WAY! Holy cats.
My gawd, the world was a rapey place. Was?! Listen at me, was. This silliness was amusing until I got to the murder. I'm seriously skeeved out by stalker stuff and rape. It horrifies and disgusts me and I can't see why it's amusing.
Why three stars? Well now. Because of its television movie starring Myrna Loy, Sylvia Sidney, Helen Hayes, and Mildred Natwick. It's not very faithful to the book. It's pretty much a still-skeevy weird hybrid of rape culture and old-lady chic. But that cast...!
There is a scene early in the film that made me turn it off, then a month later zip past it, so trigger warning for other rape survivors. Skip from 12:50 to 14:20 if you want to look at it at all. The cast snagged me, old Hollywood royalty fan that I am, and in the end Justice is Done.
The title is a reference to the antique computer punch card technology that was supercool around that time. I was also shocked and awed that the idea of computer dating existed in 1970!! What!! NO WAY! Holy cats.
October 8, 2016
A group of little old ladies bridge group sets up a date with a computer dating service for laughs, fun and just because they're bored! They had fun picking a name, making up the description of the pretty girl looking for a date, answering the telephone calls and making up a letter. One of them gets murdered in the process and unknowingly they had picked a name that DOES exist leaving the pretty girl they made up next in line to be murdered ---- by the psychotic that takes offense!
Cute and quick reading turned right into scary and just couldn't put the book down until I had the answers!
Cute and quick reading turned right into scary and just couldn't put the book down until I had the answers!
August 22, 2020
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June 9, 2009
Sophie and her friends decide on a whim to make up a fake identity for a computer dating agency. They decide to name their candidate Rebecca Meade, use Sophie's own address, and give her a profile. Then they mostly forget about it.
A week later, they have a few replies. Unfortunately, one of them is a violent and unbalanced man who develops an obsession with the fictional Rebecca.
This was a pretty good story, but the conclusion was rushed. The first part of the story didn't seem to have much to do with the second.
A week later, they have a few replies. Unfortunately, one of them is a violent and unbalanced man who develops an obsession with the fictional Rebecca.
This was a pretty good story, but the conclusion was rushed. The first part of the story didn't seem to have much to do with the second.
March 4, 2012
When Sophie Tate Curtis makes up a fictitious character for a computer dating service, she has no idea she will attract the attention of a sociopath, who wants to take revenge on the fictitious date who has seemingly spurned him.
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