Entertainment For Lively Minds
Anyone know this book ?
Posted by dbelle4500 on 14 September 2009 - 6:47pm.
A couple of years ago, I remember seeing a novel in Waterstones.
Something along the lines of - a man finds a note under his windscreen wiper, asking to decide which of 2 people should die. As he thinks it is a joke, he ignores it, and both die. He then gets another note...
Does this ring any bells ?
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Velocity
Dean R. Koontz. Good read for a train journey or beach.
Yep.
What he said.
Excellent
I thought the premise sounded quite interesting. Interesting enough that I might read the book when somebody supplied the title.
The bonus is that the Mrs. has all his books so I don't even have to go out and buy it.
Strangely enough, I was thinking that it sounded a bit Koontz-ish, having read quite a bit of the FPO's collection.
some koontz
will read any all shite.
You Are
my hero
Golden syrup...
Surely it's worth mentioning at this point Brer Koontz's extravagantly unconvincing hairpiece? At some point in the mid-90's he went to bed George Roper and woke up one of the Leningrad Cowboys...
That reminds me...
I once went into a video store and asked the assistant for the name of a film I'd seen a trailer for.
I explained that it was about a hostage negotiator who was the best negotiator in the business, and he ended up holding people hostage, and another negotiator, Kevin Spacey, has to come and negotiate with that negotiator.
Turns out, it's called 'The Negotiator'
Shop staff love questions like this
The vaguer the better. It makes them (or me in the past tense) feel superior when they get it right.
My favourite was the guy who said, 'I'm looking for a book. It's about a boy, or it might be a young man, who goes on a journey and it changes his life. Do you know the one I mean?' Of course this could be almost any book from The Odyssey onwards, but the BBC's Great Reads series was on at the time so I replied, 'Is it Paulo Coheolo's The Alchemist?' 'That's the one!'
The old flesh and blood search engine
can sometimes jump to a conclusion rather more quickly then all the wonders of the wired (or wireless) world.
Sometimes it's even the right one.
From the perspective of the (former) person behind the counter, it can help enliven a sometimes very routine day in a very rewarding way, so long as you're aware of your own potential quirks and fallabilities, as well as those of the customer.
Something similar is true of online data sources, which aren't always as definitive or as authoritative as the originators would like to make out they are. I used to be involved in producing some.
"Computer says maybe" is the right attitude, in my book, though I'm not a great fan of the "Did you really mean" response on a search engine. A particular bugbear are the ones that automatically mutate an original search in favour of something that there IS a result for.
If I'm searching up a digital cul-de-sac I'd prefer to see the dead-end and its neighbourhood and back out myself rather than be directed several blocks or even several continents away.
see also Homer Simpsons...
"I saw this movie about a bus that had to SPEED around a city, keeping its SPEED over fifty, and if its SPEED dropped, it would explode! I think it was called "The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down."
... and from Cheers
Woody: What was that film, where a teenager goes into the barn and doesn't come back, so their friend goes after them, and they don't come back, and then another goes looking, and they don't come back either...?
Phil: "Don't Go In The Barn?"
... and from The Young Ones
Neil: Like in that film where they ended up having to eat each other. (pause) 'We Ended Up Having To Eat Each Other'
there's an obscure French sci-fi film with a similar premise
simple mortel - obscure over here at least. From the pre X files 1991. Bloke gets messages through his car radio in an obscure dialect he knows he's the only person can understand. Gets all sorts of instructions to do things or else...
damn good film it is
Not entirely dissimilar to the forthcoming movie "The Box"
A couple are given a box with a big red button on it - if they push the button, they get a million dollars, and someone they don't know will die... It All Goes Horribly Wrong, of course.
Apparently based on an old Twilight Zone episode, though I don't remember it... more here for anyone interested (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362478/)
Thanks very much...
Cheers
I am just relieved it was not something obvious like the Da Vinci Code !