Comments on: On The Street Where You Live by Mary Higgins Clark http://conservativebooktalk.com/2008/01/21/on-the-street-where-you-live-by-mary-higgins-clark/ Where conservatives discuss the books they read. Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:32:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: sincerelyornot http://conservativebooktalk.com/2008/01/21/on-the-street-where-you-live-by-mary-higgins-clark/#comment-447 sincerelyornot Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:31:18 +0000 http://conservativebooktalk.com/2008/01/21/on-the-street-where-you-live-by-mary-higgins-clark/#comment-447 Scarier and more beneficial to a director; if the veiwer hasn't seen it, they can't know for sure what happened and thereby whodoneit is harder to deduce. Scarier and more beneficial to a director; if the veiwer hasn’t seen it, they can’t know for sure what happened and thereby whodoneit is harder to deduce.

]]> By: Matt Gardenghi http://conservativebooktalk.com/2008/01/21/on-the-street-where-you-live-by-mary-higgins-clark/#comment-443 Matt Gardenghi Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:01:09 +0000 http://conservativebooktalk.com/2008/01/21/on-the-street-where-you-live-by-mary-higgins-clark/#comment-443 Like you, I prefer not to have explicit violence. That is one of the factors that made the movie "The Grudge" so enticing AND frightening. There are suggestions of violence and violent acts, but you never actually see them. That was scarier. Like you, I prefer not to have explicit violence. That is one of the factors that made the movie “The Grudge” so enticing AND frightening. There are suggestions of violence and violent acts, but you never actually see them. That was scarier.

]]> By: sincerelyornot http://conservativebooktalk.com/2008/01/21/on-the-street-where-you-live-by-mary-higgins-clark/#comment-442 sincerelyornot Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:15:32 +0000 http://conservativebooktalk.com/2008/01/21/on-the-street-where-you-live-by-mary-higgins-clark/#comment-442 Good point. My favorite writers are ones who leave the majority of details to your imagination (allowing some "personalization" of the story to suit one's own tastes). What is your "imaginative taste"? Mine is alot like a Romantic era painting; no blood, no unsightly bruises or dirt, and the camera simply pans away for anything requiring the above (like death, which means I love murder mystery books but am not fond of the tv versions much). And I can't stand animals or plants that talk because my mind brings up a disney-fied cartoon! Good point. My favorite writers are ones who leave the majority of details to your imagination (allowing some “personalization” of the story to suit one’s own tastes). What is your “imaginative taste”? Mine is alot like a Romantic era painting; no blood, no unsightly bruises or dirt, and the camera simply pans away for anything requiring the above (like death, which means I love murder mystery books but am not fond of the tv versions much). And I can’t stand animals or plants that talk because my mind brings up a disney-fied cartoon!

]]> By: Matt Gardenghi http://conservativebooktalk.com/2008/01/21/on-the-street-where-you-live-by-mary-higgins-clark/#comment-438 Matt Gardenghi Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:15:36 +0000 http://conservativebooktalk.com/2008/01/21/on-the-street-where-you-live-by-mary-higgins-clark/#comment-438 My wife taped several of her TV movies, but I have yet to see them. Judging from her books, the violence is there, but not necessarily graphic. I suspect that it would be graphic if displayed on TV, but fortunately books obscure that element (usually). So, don't let that stop you. Even people that I know who aren't interested in violent content don't mind Clark. My wife taped several of her TV movies, but I have yet to see them. Judging from her books, the violence is there, but not necessarily graphic.

I suspect that it would be graphic if displayed on TV, but fortunately books obscure that element (usually).

So, don’t let that stop you. Even people that I know who aren’t interested in violent content don’t mind Clark.

]]> By: Sincerelyornot http://conservativebooktalk.com/2008/01/21/on-the-street-where-you-live-by-mary-higgins-clark/#comment-437 Sincerelyornot Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:12:31 +0000 http://conservativebooktalk.com/2008/01/21/on-the-street-where-you-live-by-mary-higgins-clark/#comment-437 I've never read anything by Clark, but it sounds like she has an interesting worldveiw. Ads for BBC versions of her work appear on tv sometimes, and her stories look rather violent. Which, I grant, is an aspect easily manipulated by television. I’ve never read anything by Clark, but it sounds like she has an interesting worldveiw. Ads for BBC versions of her work appear on tv sometimes, and her stories look rather violent. Which, I grant, is an aspect easily manipulated by television.

]]> By: Matt Gardenghi http://conservativebooktalk.com/2008/01/21/on-the-street-where-you-live-by-mary-higgins-clark/#comment-435 Matt Gardenghi Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:57:36 +0000 http://conservativebooktalk.com/2008/01/21/on-the-street-where-you-live-by-mary-higgins-clark/#comment-435 Inspired eh? That might be stretching plausibility. I can't write that well.... But thanks for the compliment. You will enjoy this book; or at least I hope so..... Inspired eh? That might be stretching plausibility. I can’t write that well….

But thanks for the compliment. You will enjoy this book; or at least I hope so…..

]]> By: Hannasus http://conservativebooktalk.com/2008/01/21/on-the-street-where-you-live-by-mary-higgins-clark/#comment-434 Hannasus Wed, 23 Jan 2008 04:10:46 +0000 http://conservativebooktalk.com/2008/01/21/on-the-street-where-you-live-by-mary-higgins-clark/#comment-434 Wow, sounds like my kind of book, I love a good mystery. I have never read a book by Mary Higgens Clark, but I am now inspired to do so. Thanks for the review, it was great. Wow, sounds like my kind of book, I love a good mystery. I have never read a book by Mary Higgens Clark, but I am now inspired to do so.
Thanks for the review, it was great.

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