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[Ro]

Is the book worth the buy? I am fairly new to the Beth Short phenomenon and I wondered if it is worth a read. Having a hubby that works at Barnes and Noble gives me a substantial discount, but I did not want to throw 12 bucks away.

[Impy]

It's almost universally dismissed.

Still, it's something about the case to read, and it'll tide you over until Harnisch put's his book out.

Personally i want a crack at the DA files. That's some reading there i imagine.

[Ro]

I wonder if you could FOIA the da files? That is something I would be interested in seeing.

[Impy]

I'm not sure on the procedure for viewing the files. According to Harnisch only a half-dozen people have seen them, and you're not allowed to copy the body photos.

I'd love to be able to get them like the FBI files.

[Ro]

I think I still want to read it.

[Ro]

[Impy]

Well, Larry Harnisch is a journalist and he got access, try it out.

[Ro]

I FOIAed stuff that I NEVER should have been able to get. It doesn't hurt to try, does it?

[johnastone]

While I do not believe this book has anything to do with the Elzabeth Short murder investigation, it still makes an interesting read. There's no doubt in my mind that her father was indeed a serial killer, amongst other thing.

[Le Artiste]

My sister's book was partly written by Michael Newton. His chapters are in a style that is different fom the ones that my sister wrote. Her's were written by a bipolar woman and real and imagined events are all mixed in together and sound confusing in places. Other places, like her history of places she lived and when sh went to New York, and so forth read more regular sounding. His writings are interspersed with, I guess you could call it sarcasm. The two different writing styles and my sister's confusion when writing about certain frightening memories / so - called memories are pretty jumbled. On critic pointed out that my father ground up the fetus and yet Janice had it in a shoebox to bury it after that. Michael Newton saw my sister on a talk show and contacted her. That was how her manuscript called, by a defferent name and RE. her recovery of her memories came to be this two books in one paperback. Her original title was to be called Renaissance House. I don't know if it would have been any better due to her bipolar condition. She could start out writing about something with wonderful prose and then lapse into something that sounded mixed up. She wrote many beautiful poems during manic highs and some were published in magazines and in books. And l don't mean that poet's book that you write something and you pay the book people to include yours. these were legitimate publications.

[Briar]

Le Artiste,

This is an off topic no-no, but I am SOO glad to see you on and posting. It's always good to hear from you.
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[Le Artiste]

Thank You Briar! [belatedly] Been too busy getting ready to move, moving, taking final exams and now the infernal, neverending unpacking and starting a new semester.