tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6604938.post7032527491612658310..comments2024-03-17T13:13:58.214-07:00Comments on Blue-Hearted Bookworm: Wishlist Wednesday: The Ideal, Genuine Man by Don RobertsonBybeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10061186489010154661noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6604938.post-54501674454602495142008-03-16T20:09:00.000-07:002008-03-16T20:09:00.000-07:00Miami Heat,I really have good feelings about the u...Miami Heat,<BR/>I really have good feelings about the upcoming release. I plugged it over at bookcrossing...don't know if anyone replied though. They're a little cliquish.<BR/><BR/>Sam,<BR/>I'm so glad you gave a brief synopsis of the novel...it sounds great, vintage Robertson.<BR/>Yes, I'm jealous that you met both men at once and got an autograph, but you can torture me anytime...I love to hear about it!Bybeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10061186489010154661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6604938.post-38669159915796205612008-03-15T19:25:00.000-07:002008-03-15T19:25:00.000-07:00I tried to comment a couple days ago and Blogger w...I tried to comment a couple days ago and Blogger went down right when I hit the "enter" button, so here goes again.<BR/><BR/>I know that I've tormented you about my first edition of the book, personalized by both Don and King, but I wanted to quote from the bookflap itself to give everyone some idea of what the book is about:<BR/><BR/>"Set in Houston - a Houston which in Robertson's hands becomes a simmering nightmare landscape - it is the story of Herman Marschall, a retired truckdriver whose wife is dying of cancer and who is himself trying to come to grips with the fact of his own old age in a society where the elderly are discarded like empty beer-cans."<BR/><BR/>This book definitely shows Houston's underbelly...strangely, I picked it up and had it signed by the two guys at a River Oaks bookstore. River Oaks is perhaps the most prestigious neighborhood in Houston, filled with multi-million dollar homes. It seems like a strange bookstore to use for this book's Houston debut, but I suppose they sold more copies there than if they had used a store in a poorer part of the city. :-)Sam https://www.blogger.com/profile/17448913705757509608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6604938.post-31755397559136592542008-03-12T12:46:00.000-07:002008-03-12T12:46:00.000-07:00Woo-hoo! With a cover endorsement from Stephen Kin...Woo-hoo! With a cover endorsement from Stephen King, this one could do well; heck, it WILL do well!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com