i just finished reading another mystery ... yes, i love mysteries. they're interesting, they don't have too much gore (which i can't handle) and best of all, they're often well written.

so i wanted to tell you about this book - the anderson tapes, lawrence sanders' first of many books, and figured, hey, let's see who else has read this book. so i search for that (no, i did not google it, i used yahoo) and come across this guy on this innnnteresting web site.

before i tell you more about that site, let me quickly pitch the anderson tapes. conceived in 1969, it is almost entirely written in dialogue taken from tapes and interspersed with letters, police reports and factual information ("tape NYPD-SIS-196-BL. premises of candy store at 4678 west end avenue." "ingrid macht, thirty four, ... 5 feet 5 inches; 112 pounds ... healed knife scar in X pattern on inside of left thigh ..."). this gives it a choppy, fragmented documentary feel that adds to the book's edge. edge there is a lot - it is the earliest-written mystery book that deals with really kinky stuff that i've come across. a few BDSM scenes that are not very graphic at all but just kinda freaky the way they're written. a few interesting observations on the nature of crime and criminals. and because it's written in the 60's, it's totally non-PC, which i find very refreshing.

so anyways ... i look around to see who has read it and came across 43 things. this is a really cool web site for goal setting and being supported in it.

.... so you see: crime pays! if i hadn't read the anderson tapes, who knows whether i would have found this site!

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