READ THIS SAVE MONEY

I’ve finally, whew, finished Lisey’s Story. I actually got through with this monumental testimony to Stephen King’s ability to sit at a keyboard for hours while repeating himself, a while back. But it’s taken me this time to recuperate. The first 250-300 pages are filled with King’s exercises where he sees how many sentences he can construct using the word bool. Bool is a nonsense word dreamed up by Lisey’s husband, Scott, and his father and brother. Scott’s criminally insane relatives. Scott, the writer/dead husband of Lisey is a world famous horror author whose works have sold in the millions. All of the books I read about writing say stay away from being autobiographical. So much for that.
The last quarter of the work finally gets with it, and a semi horror novel emerges. I liked some of the allegories such as the POOL where writers go down to sip and come back with a novel. The problem is that this POOL is surrounded by dreadful killing machines, beasts that will consume you in one huge gulp. I think the point here was that if you don’t know just how to get to the POOL without dying, you cannot be a famous writer. Alas, we never get the formula, just bored to death.
Lionel A. LaVergne, author

Gore's boy

I see where Al Gore's son, the third, was busted for drug abuse. Do I recall some democ rats busting Bush's chops because his daughters were drinking and doping? I believe George was derided because of his own doping in the younger years. Well, it seems drug use is not reserved for republicans and their kids. Get the news people, rich kids do drugs. Poor kids do drugs. Illegal drugs are a way of life. That is too bad. Now my solution, legalize pot just like booze. Death for anyone caught selling, making, buying, meth, coke, ecstasy and all drugs that are not marijuana. The drug problem would be over, the South American drug lords would be out of business, the only thing coming across our borders would illegal human beings. With the billions we would save when we fired the DEA would more than adequately take care of the poor.
Lionel A. LaVergne author of Houston Beast, Innocence Lost, A Loup-Garou, Judgment at John's Hollow to be published in 2007 and Growing Up in 2008