<NOBR>jandancer33</NOBR>  (Original Message)

Sent: 17/01/2003 17:42

hi welcome to the book review board.   use this board to tell other members what books you've read, or recommend.   or ask about books you're interested in.   if you write the title of the book in the message title bar (subject bar) it will make it easier for others to find   have fun janx

<NOBR>jandancer33</NOBR>  (Original Message)

Sent: 17/01/2003 17:42

hi welcome to the book review board.   use this board to tell other members what books you've read, or recommend.   or ask about books you're interested in.   if you write the title of the book in the message title bar (subject bar) it will make it easier for others to find   have fun janx

Is anyone reading any good books at present or read any recently?? something that can really distract you and keep you really absorbed??

 

thanksyou

 

 

I have heard of this book by Patricia Cornwell, its supposed to be really good, I read book reviews about it. The ripper case has always intrigued people hasnt it??

Patricia Cornwell is one of those women who are have really interesting and passionate personality . Did you ever see the programme she did a little while back about "the body farm??" a real place in the US that is has real dead human bodies kept in all sorts of adverse conditions. They are donated by the people themselves and I think some homeless people are placed there . The forensic people moniter the bodies until they decompose. The conditions of the bodies help solve murder case's. Its quite a detailed subject to describe here really and not exactly nice..sorry

 

The body farm has caused much controvesy and has been threatened with closure by the local people many times

 

just like to add I  have read one of her books some time back.

 

thanks

They have the body farms all over the US now??

thats amazing, I had no idea.

 I remember the programme only ever mentioned the one body farm as I think it was a fairly new concept. From what I gather ,it was located in Philadelphia?? or Virginia as you say..which holds quite a strong religious presence..( but then there are many states that do I think ) .

The residents there opposed it on the grounds it was morally wrong and against the the word of the Lord.

My own views on this is that you have to separate the emotional side/morality issue from the purely scientific one.

It helps solve, as you say, murder cases.

 

the Jack the ripper case has baffled people for decades has'nt it?? I do know I have watched the movies and some documentries. They always alleged it was linked to royalty was it or someone with a high standing in public life??

 

Kay Scarpatta , thats the name I remember, I have read one of them with her in it. 

I think Patricia Cornwell is lesbian isnt she?? or do I just think it??

 

Getting slightly away from this sorry, has anyone read the silence of the lambs ?? and then Hannibal and red dragon?? what did you think of any of them??

 

thanks for replies.

just returning threads again..

 

 

 

<NOBR>jandancer33</NOBR>  (Original Message)

Sent: 17/01/2003 17:42

hi welcome to the book review board.   use this board to tell other members what books you've read, or recommend.   or ask about books you're interested in.   if you write the title of the book in the message title bar (subject bar) it will make it easier for others to find   have fun janx