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1 hour ago, mellyf said:
Edited to add: From what I remember reading years ago, she wrote both Curtain and Sleeping Murder (the last Marple) years before they were published, with the intention that they be published posthumously, which they were.
Definitely true. As I recall, they were written during WWII, but it was definitely decades before either were published. I believe that she actually put them in a safety deposit box or something like that.
It's been quite a few years since I've seen the episode. Did they not have Hastings actually try to poison Dr. Franklin? That I would actually call a fault in the episode. Hastings being actually tempted into murder by what Norton says is what clearly shows that he HAD to be brought down. Regardless, I think I watched this show in fits and starts so I didn't have the emotional let down that you are describing. I can see that being disappointing.
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In addition, it shows just how dangerous Norton really was. Not only did he turn Hastings into a murderer*, he turned Poirot into one as well. In the end, Norton won, even if it was the only way that he could be stopped.
The series at least tried to build to this ending by showcasing the numerous times that he chose to be sure justice was served rather than the law. (Several times when he let a murderer commit suicide, letting the guilty go (but not happily) in MotOE)
*As I recall, Hastings didn't decide not to poison his daughter's boyfriend, Poirot saved the man silently.
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10 hours ago, sugarbaker design said:
Which leads a cynical me to believe it's a ploy to make some lucre for the Christie estate, which is always open for new adaptations of Dame Agatha's work.
That's why I was questioning how these changes would affect the works going into the public domain.
5 hours ago, Elizabeth Anne said:I'm all for heirs continuing to be the ones who profit from granny or grandpas work as opposed to some nameless corporation but I've been really surprised by how far the Christie estate has been willing to go. I get the movies and the TV shows, Dame Agatha allowed that as well. What I'm less happy about are the "new" books being written using her characters. Is this commonly done with authors? Offhand I know they did this with Rex Stout, I read a few and they were actually quite good, but not I guess good enough as I haven't bothered to read more than two or three.
Well, others will start as soon as they are completely free - see the number of authors using Sherlock these days. The owners of the property might as well get something out of their use? I think I tried one of the new Poirots. If I did it wasn't particularly notable in either a good or bad direction, I guess.
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20 hours ago, voiceover said:
Title change versus complete rewriting of passages. Not. The. Same.
While I agree with your general sentiment on the new changes, this isn't quite true. The central poem of the novel was also changed along with each title changes. It matched the title for the "10 Little" iterations and was changes to "soldiers" for "And then there were None." The name of the island was renamed to match in each case as well. I would suggest that it is different because Christie herself was involved in at least the initial changes. It was never published in the states under the original title. With that, Christie set the expectation that, for that book, this was not central to the novel and she had no issue changing it.
Changing other pieces of her writing with no indication that she would be ok with the changes is not ok. I think it's notable that at least some of her works are just coming into the public domain. Are they changing only books that are already public or do they hold or have buy in from the copywrite holders? How do changes to the text affect the copywrite?
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I think that I am currently subscribed to 4 different podcasts on patreon. For at least one of them, I'm not getting anything extra for my patronage. (They have stuff, it just isn't done in podcast form, so I constantly forget about it.) I like the podcast and want to support their effort. I couldn't do it for all of the podcasts that I listen to (I'm subscribed to hundreds of them) but I pick out a few and support them. After a while, I'll probably add some and stop others, depending on how I feel.
I certainly prefer a mention of the patreon or substack than the same ad over and over and over.
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5 hours ago, methodwriter85 said:
This sounds horrible, but I wasn't particularly moved by them killing off Starr's child. I mean, in all honestly, I figured GH was going to bring the kid back to life but didn't get the chance to because of the Prospect Park mess. It kind of works out for Starr that she got to spend her 20's free and clear and not tied down with a baby and Cole.
I like to imagine that Starr had a fun life, traveling around, and then eventually found love with a guy who isn't tied Marty Saybrooke in any way.
Somehow, there are snakes
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As of January of 2019, he has finished the 10 book deal with The Golden Tresses of the Dead and does not know that he will create more. The author is over 80 years old, so I would think it becomes less and less likely over the years.
https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2019/01/25/to-alan-bradley-flavia-is-very-much-real.html
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"The Senate had the ability to get Joe Manchin, to get a number of Republican senators if they had just put out legislation that said are you in favor of maintaining Roe vs Wade. And they didn't do that. I they didn't do it because the progressives wanted to be able to drive more of a spike on this issue."
(My transcript from the podcast, apologies if I missed something)
I guess you can take it either way, I assumed that he knew what he was talking about.
There is a later point where Harman says maybe they will try it and get 60 vote and all he responds is "That'd be a big deal"
If they went back after they changed topics, I'll have missed it. Didn't listen to the whole thing again. (Especially as I'd slowed it from three times speed to actual time.)
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On 5/14/2022 at 10:25 AM, iMonrey said:
Gotta say, the panelists weren't much better. Ian Bremmer is usually a reasonable person but he's wrong to say Chuck Schumer could have gotten a "clean bill" 60 votes in the Senate. I don't know what fantasyland he's living in. At most he could have gotten maybe 52 or 53 votes and that's still not enough to overcome a filibuster. And Jane Harman is still living in another century, Bill was right about that at least.
The point is that the bill that was brought to the floor couldn't PASS. It didn't need to be filibustered because the majority voted against it. Had he brought a more moderate bill to the floor, they could at least claim that the minority was stopping a bill from being passed. They were saying that it was bad politics, not that a more moderate bill would have worked. Given the number of news sources (and sitting senators) that used the filibuster as the reason that a bill that 51 people voted against failed, they have a bit of a point.
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It may be some one who is working on training the dog to not bark at every stimulus that shows up as well.
Speaking as someone who is trying to train a beagle to not howl. *sigh* I work from home for my day job, the dog is not alone all that often and we are working very hard at stopping the "bark at people, bark at dogs, bark at squirrels and birds and maybe a piece of paper blowing in the wind." I keep telling him that his neighbors loved him when he was a puppy are going to stop loving him if he keeps being so noisy.
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I don't have pictures of the celebrations on the computer yet (Including some video that I have no idea how to upload) but Sunday was Huck's "gotcha day" and we did our best to do it in style. Multiple visits to the dog park, stopping by my aunt and uncle's to play with their dogs, a taste testing session with dairy, chicken and bacon, getting the second half of my steak, presents and a toast.
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1 minute ago, Cheyanne11 said:
Michael will bitch and moan and look generally constipated about how "I suppose now Nina will expect we owe her."
If we're really lucky, she won't bank her bone marrow and she'll be accused of holding it hostage so that Carly can't kill her.
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Huck was ready for Easter!
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33 minutes ago, LuvMyShows said:
I am stunned that on this forum alone, there are at least two people who have been employed at places where embezzlement occurred. It must be way more common than gets reported.
Probably even more. Unless you work in Finance, HR or legal, you probably would never find out unless the company prosecuted the crime. The only thing people that don't need to know would be told is "so-and-so no longer works for the company."
For small enough issues, the thief is told a) you are fired, b) if you pay us back we won't take this to the cops. At least, that's what they did in the early 90s :)
One of the AP clerks that worked for my mom turned out to have been cutting checks to pay her personal credit card bills. It looked like she just couldn't pay it one month and put it in the check run. When it worked, she just kept doing it.
As a teenager, I was hired to go through every check run for years before she was caught to verify everything else was on the up and up. I was not allowed to tell anyone else that worked for the company specifically what I had been temp hired to do or discuss that employee at all.
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3 hours ago, SuprSuprElevated said:
The thing is, I think all of the "Me" lines are meant to be quiet. I actually say all of that to my dog on a regular basis.
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10 hours ago, Scarlett45 said:
We had a teeny emergency. Cosmo was limping, and given he is HUGE I attend to paw stuff right away, because it’s not like I can carry him.
But he’s going to be okay. He got a wound on his right front paw pad, they were able to shave it, clean it, and give him pain pills & antibiotics for the next week. He’s going to be just fine, but he did not like being examined. They had to muzzle him and it took TWO techs to hold him so the vet could examine him.
He’s also back in the “cone of safety” until he heals up.
I’ve been a dog Mom for 14 months- I knew enough to bring some high value treats, wild boar with sweet potato.
Oh- he’s lost weight, he’s now 84 pounds. I was hoping to get him to 80 by May, but an 8lbs loss is good though?
Poor thing. Paw wounds can't be fun. Is he usually upset at the vet or was it that they were poking and prodding at something that hurt?
Congrats on the weight loss. Almost 10% of his body weight - I'd say it's a major victory thus far.
I just adore his ears so much!
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20 minutes ago, peachmangosteen said:
INTO IT!
I was just wondering the other day if any soap ever did a time travel storyline.
One Life to Live - but it was Rex and Gigi which made it immediately bad and it was Ron writing it. He had some good storylines at OLTL, they didn't ever involve Rex.
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Have you tried the Flavia de Luce series by Alan Bradley? Lead is 11 so you don't need to worry about the romance. It's not YA (or, at least, it doesn't feel like it to me), just has a young lead. It's set in Britain shortly after WWII and Flavia is... an unusual young lady. She can't decide, for a while, if she should be a poisoner or a detective. The murder makes it clear.
I don't consider Dame Agatha to have written cozies.
The death in "Hercule Poroit's Christmas" - I think - was famously so incredibly bloody because one of her relatives had said that she had bloodless deaths.
The reveal in Endless Nights is incredibly dark and disturbing. (I read this one too young, I actually hid the book away so I wouldn't read it again because it upset me so much!)
She has several thriller novels that travel all over the globe and impact politics.
She murdered off several small children (usually for something they saw or knew, but also, at least once, for an inheritance) and once had the child be the murderer.
The only reason that I think it matters at all is that people use it to disregard works as "just a cozy" like it makes it lesser. Got to say, if any definition of where you put AC's books end up making it lesser, your doing something wrong. She may not be to everyone's tastes, but she was damn good at what she did.
(No actual endings to specific books given away, but a couple of hints and the answer to one given without indicating the book.)
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On 3/11/2022 at 7:23 PM, Anela said:
https://imgur.com/tOQbrig (video)
Tulip, my "little one". I'll post some pictures from when they were both younger, when I can. I just took these tonight. He needs to lose some weight, like me, and we need to get him groomed. I just brought him in, but he wants to go back outside - he will stay there, wagging his tail, then ease towards you, because he wants to see you, and he'll gaze into your eyes, like he thinks you're the greatest thing in the world, outside of snow. He's almost seven now. We've had him since April 2016.
It's the tail wagging to show "everything is good, I want to be here" that makes it magic :)
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So, took Huck out this morning for his morning bathroom break. Forgot entirely, until the moment that he acceded to the "Go Potty" command that he was wearing a freaking onsie! I ordered my dog to piss his pants. *sigh*
So, onesie in the wash, I dig through the donation bin and:
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That cute little belt? is the scarf piece to the blouse :) Of course, he peed on that while on our walk this afternoon, so now he's in a t-shirt.
ETA: minor corrections
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After a little bit of drama (double check your order when you are really tired. The XS recovery outfit that showed up today was not very helpful.) we've got Huck into something that, while a little large, will work. He gave me some very annoyed glances while I was getting it on to him, but he has full motion and isn't taking it off every few minutes.
Thanks again (and kisses from Huck, who really, really appreciates it!)
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2 minutes ago, SuprSuprElevated said:
Perhaps something like this - I'v read that many have had a lot of success.
And I can get one delivered before I have to leave him alone :) Thank you!
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Huck has not been having nearly as much fun. No idea how he did it, but he managed to tear a hole in his shoulder:
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At about 3:30 in the morning yesterday, we got back from the emergency vet:
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I actually took him last night instead of today because he had gotten to the point where is was sitting stock still, shaking and I couldn't even move him. Turns out, that's because he was afraid of the CONE that I had put on him to keep him away from it until we could go to the vet! I've never heard of cone paralysis, but to move him anywhere with the cone I had to bodily pick him up and carry him. He's 50 pounds. I was actually afraid that I'd drop him last night when I was getting him into bed.
Luckily, I'm dog sitting for my aunt and uncle at the moment and she had an inflatable donut that I can use instead. If he tries, he can take it off, so that's a fun "keep an eye on things" situation.''
I have to keep stopping him from playing with the other dogs today so he must not be feeling to poorly at this point, thank goodness. I, on the other hand, am a mess. I kept not being able to sleep last night so I stayed in bed until after 9. Then I spent a couple hours trying to deal with the cone situation so I didn't start working until almost noon instead of 7am.
The sedative that they give him last night caused him to completely vacate his bowels. He completed that process in the back seat of my car last night. I still have to clean that up...
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(Diesel is the boy next to Huck)
Here's the queen of the house, Sadie:
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Book Covers
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5 hours ago, Ailianna said:I wish they would stop changing the covers of ebooks already in my library every time they reissue the book. Mostly they are not as good and sometimes really awful. If I wanted a movie tie-in cover I would presumably get one. If I want the original cover that I associate with the book, I'm out of luck. Sometimes I can't even recognize the book because the covers keep changing. And it's not like I'm going to go buy the book again because they changed my cover. If anything, the few people who would want new covers now don't have to buy them.
For an ebook, they should probably just have multiple images available and, if the user cares, let them choose.
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Dune: Part Two (2023)
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I don't remember the second answer, but the hooks open their carapace and allow the sand in, this irritates them, so it causes them to turn away from that direction. (I do not recall if they explained this in the movie.)