tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7079851.post5552831575363078697..comments2023-10-22T07:19:57.496-04:00Comments on Oliver's Offerings: Oh My Ears & Whiskers!Jana Oliverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00603652346290427856noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7079851.post-19990742372498762882007-09-24T21:18:00.000-04:002007-09-24T21:18:00.000-04:00Okay, we'll just have to agree to disagree on Ms. ...Okay, we'll just have to agree to disagree on Ms. Cornwell's "solid case" for Jack the Ripper. I will give her credit for applying modern lab testing to an old crime, but that's as far as I'll go.<BR/><BR/>I'm currently polishing my Ripper fiction talk for the Whitechapel Society and mention Gacy (etal) as those who built on the Ripper's legacy. As Karl Alexander put it in "Time After Time" Jack really was an amateur. Now that's depressing.<BR/><BR/>I haven't read "The Lincoln Hunters." I'll see if I can hunt up a copy. Amoral corporation, dystopian world. Gee... sounds familiar. Sounds like another author who doesn't really trust the Powers That Be. I suspect that sentiment is ever present no matter the century.Jana Oliverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00603652346290427856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7079851.post-38690909974363561182007-09-23T12:08:00.000-04:002007-09-23T12:08:00.000-04:00It's amazing that for over a century--even after P...It's amazing that for over a century--even after Paricia Cornwell gave us what amounts to a solid case for the Ripper's identity (and where she proved herself a far better nonfiction author than a novelist), people are still fascinated by a Victorian serial killer. The Boston Strangler, the Xodiac killer, the Hillside Strangler, and John Wayne Gacy took more lives, but the Ripper is better known.<BR/><BR/>Off-topic: a case of parallel ideas. "The Lincoln Hunters," a 1958 novel by Wilson Tucker, has a team of time travelers working for an amoral corporation in a dystopian world. They go back to 1856 Bloomington, Illinois to record what Lincoln really said in his "Lost Speech." My suspicion is that you've never read it or heard of it--that the ideas came to you and Tucker independently, though some 40+ years apart.steve on the slow trainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18257811143869341854noreply@blogger.com