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"A perfumed woman who passes by a group of men in order that they will notice her smell is an adultress." Heck, if that's all it takes then I've been working too hard.

Oh, Elma doesn't know what a blowjob is. Well that explains some of my previous comment, but is that actually possible, in 1970? I'll take your word for it, MRK.

Time for one of my little rants. At this point in the book, the astronauts on Mars have a condom shortage. And everyone acts like they're being sentenced to celibacy. Does... does no one know about the kinda sex you can have that doesn't risk pregnancy? Or are we just operating in a world where that stuff isn't considered real sex? I guess people did and do still think that, but come on.

"Less than 1% of all Bored Apes have the gold fur trait, making it an NFT with historical significance," Sotheby's wrote. It went for $3.4 million.
The aliens are going to destroy us, and we'll deserve it.

If I was reading this on my kindle, I would constantly be highlighting the author's insufferable descriptions. I picked this up because I need to read some stuff by and about domminatrices for my own writing and I vaguely remembered picking this up ages ago and not finishing it. Even odds that history repeats itself.

I should create a shelf just for memoirs of people who had terrible parents. After their ship nearly sinks in a storm, the author's father takes her to a doctor on Ile Amsterdam. She's obviously concussed, and has a broken nose and a skull fracture. And daddy's response is, "what if we do nothing?" Mother******, are you serious?

Oh, Lizzie Borden. Schechter asserts that "Most modern historians... are convinced of her guilt." Are they? I mean, yeah, Lizzie is the obvious suspect, but no one has ever put forth a convincing explanation of how she hacked 2 people to death and somehow wasn't covered in blood, in a house with rooms that opened into each other, and no running water.

Proposed subtitle: It's Actually More Complicated Than That

Seems like a lot of problems come from men believing that because they want something really badly, it must be god telling them. That voice in your head, that's just you.

I super don't need a discussion, no matter how brief, of the writer's childhood and current boner for Natasha from Rocky and Bullwinkle.

Really frustrated by the author's fixation on pseudoscience, conspiracy theories, and the paranormal. That stuff doesn't belong in a serious true crime book. Sure, talk about the history of murders and suicides at the Cecil, but Elisa Lam wasn't killed by ghosts.

"A video from 2013 showed them being involved in slitting the throats of two captive men in Syria, so the two were convicted of murder and terrorist crimes on circumstantial evidence alone."
A video that clearly shows a crime and it's perpetrators is direct evidence, not circumstantial.

First time in a long time that I've had to skip something in a book. A pov character remembers for about two pages how much he enjoyed murdering a kitten. Couldn't make myself read the scene, and I'm becoming frustrated with this book for being so obvious and trying so hard to shock me. I wonder if this was the author's first novel?

I get that this guy is all about solving crimes, and I respect that. But the privacy concerns of people who use DNA databases are legitimate, and it's not cool to handwave them away. People who submit their DNA to ancestry.com and 23 and Me didn't consent to a criminal search, and we have to reckon with that.

This is an extended sequence of Lloyd being badgered by police officers. This bothers me because it's exactly how you get false confessions. I'm not saying this guy is innocent; he's lied multiple times and he fits the profile of the killer. I just want these cops to be looking for concrete evidence.

"It wasn’t the first time Lloyd had hinted that he might have some knowledge of what happened to the Lyon sisters , that it might be trapped somewhere in his memory. Innocent people didn’t say things like that."
This really struck me, because it's so obviously false. People confess to crimes they didn't commit all the time. I can easily think of several. It's worrying that these police don't seem to realize that.

Fuck the last person who checked this book out and ripped this page in half. You asshole, you could have at least taped it back together.

At this point in the book the contortions required to keep the reader from knowing who the victim is are starting to feel pretty forced.

Another short story- "Returned" by Kat Howard
http://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fic...

Another short story: "The Alley Man" by Philip Jose Farmer.

Looks like my other update didn't post. Just listing a few short stories that I couldn't post individually.
"Sandkings" by George R.R. Martin
"A Rose for Ecclesiastes" and "The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth" by Roger Zelazny
"Love is the Plan the Plan is Death" by James Tiptree Jr

Ok, so I did add "For a Breath I Tarry" on its own, but I forgot "Even The Queen" by Connie Willis.

Here are a few short stories that I've read that I couldn't add individually:
"Sandkings" by George R.R. Martin
"Love is the Plan the Plan is Death" by James Tiptree Jr
"A Rose for Ecclesiastes," "The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth," and "For a Breath I Tarry" by Roger Zelazny

Not sure why, but this isn't working for me. Maybe I'll come back to it later.

So, this is basically RoboCop, except with a Navy Seal and magic.

So, this is basically RoboCop, except with a Navy Seal and magic.

I'm going to have to dnf this, sadly. I've love Mr. Hines other work, but this just isn't working for me.

Damn, what a clusterfuck.

I can't shake the feeling that this would be better if it was written by a woman, someone who could apply some feminist analysis.