tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644690488802388716.post1365804980766269249..comments2024-03-28T23:48:27.173-06:00Comments on Mysteries and More from Saskatchewan: The Glass House by David RotenbergBill Selneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17268006369157307593noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644690488802388716.post-67341614125698154932014-09-09T03:52:03.460-06:002014-09-09T03:52:03.460-06:00Kathy D.: Brother Robert is a better choice for yo...Kathy D.: Brother Robert is a better choice for you!Bill Selneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17268006369157307593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644690488802388716.post-23345057239278955452014-09-08T03:28:28.827-06:002014-09-08T03:28:28.827-06:00The death penalty in this country. One of the bro...The death penalty in this country. One of the brothers, Henry McCallum, was on death row for 30 years and saw and heard many friends executed. It disturbed him greatly. How someone can recover from that trauma is beyond me. <br /><br />Even though the Supreme Court decreed no one who is developmentally disabled should be executed, there he was on death row.<br /><br />Anyway, getting back to books, the paranormal is not a genre of choice for me. I'm going back to the other Rotenberg for legal mysteries, a preferred plot choice.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644690488802388716.post-9468544377118262112014-09-02T23:29:29.726-06:002014-09-02T23:29:29.726-06:00Kathy: Thanks for the comment.
I have read the st...Kathy: Thanks for the comment.<br /><br />I have read the story in the New York Times.<br /><br />It is so similiar to a famous Saskatchewan case, David Milgaard, who spent 22 years in jail because police and prosecutors had tunnel vision and pressured him into a false confession.<br /><br />Ultimately DNA evidence showed another rapist / murderer had committed the crime. Milgaard was freed and the other man convicted.<br /><br />You ask what lite they can now have in North Carolina. Milgaard struggled to adjust to freedom but is now doing better.<br /><br />I am glad to say our province paid him $10 million for the wrongful conviction without requiring him to sue.<br /><br />I doubt the two men in North Carolina will have comparable compensation from the state.<br /><br />Injustice happens. Sometimes it can be corrected if no death penalty has been carried out.<br /><br />Bill<br /><br /><br /><br />Bill Selneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17268006369157307593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644690488802388716.post-25813147633141547262014-09-01T00:09:58.506-06:002014-09-01T00:09:58.506-06:00TracyK: I hope you get a chance to read and review...TracyK: I hope you get a chance to read and review The Lake Ching Murders. I would be very interested in knowing how much the paranormal was featured in Rotenberg's earlier books.Bill Selneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17268006369157307593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644690488802388716.post-86377030415704077132014-09-01T00:08:51.127-06:002014-09-01T00:08:51.127-06:00Prashant: Thanks for the comment. "Synaesthet...Prashant: Thanks for the comment. "Synaesthetes" are amazing people. I think it must be a challenge to live with their talents. Their real life skills approach the paranormal.Bill Selneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17268006369157307593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644690488802388716.post-86753866298993148692014-08-31T09:19:09.553-06:002014-08-31T09:19:09.553-06:00I have one book by this author but it is in an ear...I have one book by this author but it is in an earlier series, I think. THE LAKE CHING MURDERS. This one that you are reviewing sounds too paranormal for me but I may try the first in the Junction Chronicles trilogy.TracyKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08303342674824383688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644690488802388716.post-55194300016799507552014-08-31T04:19:40.761-06:002014-08-31T04:19:40.761-06:00Bill, I was intrigued by the term "synasthete...Bill, I was intrigued by the term "synasthete" and the characters who have that special ability and found the story to be quite unusual. I'm not much of a fan of paranormal fiction although I have read something remotely close to this in fantasy and sf books.Prashant C. Trikannadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16079354501998741758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644690488802388716.post-54348714639845817842014-08-30T23:32:07.968-06:002014-08-30T23:32:07.968-06:00Margot: Thanks for the comment. Synaesthetes are a...Margot: Thanks for the comment. Synaesthetes are absorbing people. I believe you would find the series interesting.Bill Selneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17268006369157307593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644690488802388716.post-35461225231359626952014-08-30T21:03:06.328-06:002014-08-30T21:03:06.328-06:00Bill - Thanks as ever for your honest and thoughtf...Bill - Thanks as ever for your honest and thoughtful appraisal. I'm interested in the world of the synaesthete, so on that score alone this series might be work exploring. But I do like characters and events to be credible. I think I would probably mind the paranormal aspect of this novel. Still, I may definitely dip into the series. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com