The Love Talker

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Laurie has finally returned to Idlewood, the beloved family home deep in the Maryland woods where she found comfort and peace as a lonely young girl. But things are very different now. There is no peace in Idlewood. The haunting sound of a distant piping breaks the stillness of a snowy winter's evening. Seemingly random events have begun to take on a sinister shape. And dotty old Great Aunt Lizzie is convinced that there are fairies about -- and she has photographs to prove it. For Laurie, one fact is becoming disturbingly clear: there is definitely something out there in the woods -- something fiendishly, cunningly, malevolently human -- and the lives of her aging loved ones, as well as Laurie's own, are suddenly at serious risk.

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Darker than expected.......2004-06-12

I'm surprised that Mertz published the book under her Elizabeth Peters nom de plum when the style and themes of the book were more in the fashion of the author's Barbara Michaels persona. The book draws heavily on gothic romance influences more than her usual Victorian adventure fluff. Of course under both names she's ultimately writing mysteries and Love Talker doesn't disappoint. There are parts that are too drawn out or too rambling and the characterization isn't as strong as it is in some of her books but it's still a fun and easy read.

The Love Talker.......2003-09-18

Unlike some previous reviewers, I thoroughly loved this story. True, Aunt Lizzie is a bit "much," the romance a bit too low key, and a trio of spinster/bachelor siblings odd, but the weaving of Lizzie and Laurie's love of fairy tales into the plot is both delightful and chilling. The author keeps you guessing up until the very end, while building suspense and dread. Elizabeth Peters/Barbara Michaels can always be depended on to deliver a good romantic and/or gothic mystery.

Strange.......2003-01-13

Ms. Peter is normally one of my favorite authors, but I found this one strange from beginning to end. It was entertaining, but not up to the usual. The ending in particular bothered me somewhat, it seems that a few chapters are missing.

Promising, but weak.......2002-10-17

An older work republished, The Love Talker is a weak romance/mystery that has touches of the wit and humor that mark her better works. I found the plot to be simplistic and predictable, which isn't always a problem if the ride is still fun. However, I couldn't get behind the romance in this, and it seems the author couldn't either, as she only puts it in play in the last 2 pages. So, no real suspense... no real romance... no real read.

Peters best work is in her Vicki Bliss and Amelia Peabody mysteries, which I have read and re-read over and over and are worth the price.

A compelling read.......2002-09-29

I just couldn't put this one down. My first taste of Peters' incredible style and impossibly my last. In one word, this book is like a roller coaster. Peters' creates the perfect incriminating environment, where everything is pleasant but with a hint of griminess, while enveloping the reader in a story too interesting to put down until the last page. The story is so well written that you indefinitely suspect each character of foul play, and the outcome is so surprising you end up feeling disappointed that the story is over. I'm urged to pursue more of her writings. I have to admit that I felt a little dirty and unpleasant at wanting something to happen between Laurie and Doug because of their situation, but the last pages were so hilarious that I was actually relieved. I recommend this book to anyone out there who has stumbled upon this review, if you find yourself craving for a good read this is it. Enjoy!

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A Gothic Fairytale - Well-honed and intriguing

The Love Talker.
Deborah Pryor
Manufacturer: Dramatist's Play Service
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Binding: Paperback

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A Gothic Fairytale - Well-honed and intriguing.......2007-03-22

The little known Deborah Pryor has here contrived a powerful, if slightly under-developed, one act using the mythos of the Irish fairy brought to the American south by immigrants who settled in the Appalachian region. The poetic expresion of the feminine sexuality might seem vague after a first casual reading. However, the earthy quality of the language lends itself to several cultures' definitions of the truly, deeply sensual within nature and the human spirit. A short read (under thirty pages), The Love Talker is an expressive play in which we as readers and viewers are encouraged to search our hearts for that unattainable "other," the beautiful ecstacy of grief. A touching play about the relationship between two sisters as they discover and explore their individual sexuality; their choices result in both dignity and destruction.

3 Titles By Elizabeth Peters : Legend in Green Velvet The Love Talker The Copenhagen Connection

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3 Titles By Elizabeth Peters : Legend in Green Velvet The Love Talker The Copenhagen Connection
Elizabeth Peters
Manufacturer: TOR
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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The Love Talker
Elizabeth Peters
Manufacturer: New York TOR 1990.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000N2TM1S

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The Love Talker
Elizabeth Peters
Manufacturer: Dodd, Mead
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NQIM9C

The Love Talker / Brimstone / The Boy Who Followed Ripley (Detective Book Club)

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The Love Talker / Brimstone / The Boy Who Followed Ripley (Detective Book Club)
Elizabeth Peters , Robert L. Duncan , and Patricia Highsmith
Manufacturer: Walter J. Black
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Binding: Hardcover

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The Love Talker: Library Edition
Elizabeth Peters
Manufacturer: Blackstone Audiobooks
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Binding: Audio Cassette

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ASIN: 078610337X

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Entertaining enough.

The Love-talkers
Gail Wronsky
Manufacturer: Hollyridge Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0967600332

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Here is a first novel from one of America's most luminous poets. Gail Wronsky's erotic fable The Love-talkers is the story of two American couples caught up in the power of a strange book they find in a rare bookshop. In gorgeous poetical language, Wronsky explores the sexual mystery wrought by this leather-bound volume amid the lush surroundings of Mexico City. As her characters cannot resist the attraction of The Love-talkers, neither will you.

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Entertaining enough........2003-01-15

Quick, easy read. Not a romance novel, which is good, because I wasn't looking for that. Tastefully written. The only reason I bought it was because it was set in Mexico City and that part was not disappointing - lots of good descriptions of the city and surrounding area.

5 Titles By Elizabeth Peters - Love Talker - Summer of the Dragon - Devil May Care - Camelot Caper - Dead Sea Cipher

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5 Titles By Elizabeth Peters - Love Talker - Summer of the Dragon - Devil May Care - Camelot Caper - Dead Sea Cipher
Elizabeth Peters
Manufacturer: various
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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5 massmarket paperback Titles By Elizabeth Peters - Love Talker - Summer of the Dragon - Devil May Care - Camelot Caper - Dead Sea Cipher

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Love Talker

Manufacturer: Tor Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 9994642685

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Adversaries in an interstellar war are now working together to keep the peace. But can they protect themselves from an enemy they can't even see?

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Good space action........2001-07-29

Colonel Ray Longknife is a desk jockey. Shrapnel earned in battle has made him unfit for anything else. But now he's married and about to be a father. The last thing he needs is for his spaceship to go awry and get sent thousands of light-years off course into an unknown sector of the universe. But once there, a stunning discovery is made. They've found the ship that disappeared three-hundred-years ago on an earth like planet, building a world of their own. Joy soon turns to suspicion, though, as they begin to realize that there is a very sinister underbelly to the seemingly peaceful life of the planet dwellers. Mike Moscoe writes great space action and adventure. His ability to pull the reader into his universe is matched by his talent for creating believable science fiction.

Harmless, Generally Speaking.......2001-03-27

I picked this one up because I needed commute reading. Over-all, it's unobjectionable, a fast read. It's not memorable and if you've read as much SF as I have, it was predictable. So what? It did its job, and the story was fun.

There were a couple things I thought could have been better. We have a lost colony plunked down on a "teaching" world that can't seem to make contact with the colonists. I don't find that convincing on its face, but I let it ride. I object more seriously to the ending, which I won't give away, though you can probably guess it. Moscoe ducked the serious issue of co-existence with true machine intelligence. That, by the way, is fair enough. If what you want to write is entertainment, then you don't need to get into the whole messy issue of what sentience is, and how do you deal with the other.

Moscoe comes down on the "Can't we all just get along?" end of the spectrum. The main characters started out on different sides and finished close friends. No one is a goody-two-shoes, but when a character is portrayed as a seriously bad person, the driving force behind that personality (utter selfishness) is well potrayed and consistent. There are the usual clueless civilians, which I found tiresome, but hey. Most military types view civilians as easiest to protect by ensuring they never get close to the action.

There was a fault of diction that drove me bats. Moscoe, at least twice, uses "disburse" for "disperse." Anyone who doesn't understand the different roots of these two words should see me after class...well, no. Let me explain. Disperse comes from the Latin "dispersus", which comes from particle dis + spargere "to strew." Thus, English disperse, meaning "to scatter" in its briefest definition. Got that?

Disburse comes from Old French, composed of the Latin particle dis + Old French bourse, which means purse in the sense of "where you keep your money." So we arrive at English "disburse", meaning "to pay out."

They are nowhere near being the same word, and it made me squawk. May a decently educated reader ask who is proof-reading this stuff? There was other stuff, but the disburse for disperse was egregious!

Anyway, as I said, harmless. Read it in paper, and then sell it.

A Good Read.......2001-03-12

They Also Serve is the third book in this series about military veteran trying to build a better life, The Price of Peace and First Casualty preceded it. It is an engaging story and I enjoyed reading it.

Former Army Colonel Ray Longknife and former Marine Captain Mary Rodrigo plus crew take a bad space jump and end up marooned halfway across the galaxy from home. They discover a planet inhabited by the descendants of a lost ship, the Santa Maria. The Santa Maria was lost 300 years prior in the first recorded jump point mishap. The planet turns out to be a long unused teaching machine created by the same three races that built the jump points. A million years of inactivity have driven the teaching machine insane. Ray and Mary must defeat this machine, a computer who's hardware is a planet, if they are going to save themselves, their crew, and their new friends.

Fantasy Masquerading as SF.......2001-01-10

Moscoe returns to the Society of Humanity universe, and brings back the characters introduced in two earlier books. Then he has them lose their way in space and end up on a mysterious planet on the other side of the galaxy. A planet that just happens to be inhabited by humans from another lost ship, and happens to be home to supercomputer network that can do anything it wants, if it can just get its act together long enough.

While the individual characters are moderately interesting, the plot is completely pointless and arbitrary. Rules change as things go along, and the story really resembles a poorly developed Sword & Sorcery plot as much as anything else.

A sci-fi version of "Through The Looking Glass".......2001-01-09

The war is over with the Unity Party defeated. Ray Longknife, part of the winning team, killed the unity Party's President. As a reward for his bravery, Ray is now Wardhaven's Minister of Science and Technology. In a further ironic twist, Ray married the woman who crippled him during the war. They expect their first child soon.

On a routine diplomatic mission, Ray's spaceship is sabotaged and he and the crew end up leaping into an uncharted galaxy. They land on the nearest habitable planet, which the inhabitants of the lost Santa Maria spaceship have colonized. When the spacers land, they upset the social dynamics leading to strange happenings. They learn that the colonists shared a planet for over three hundred years with an unknown being, who can change the molecular structure of their brains. When warfare seems imminent, Ray and his soldiers implement a battle plan that will either destroy the planet or return it to humanity.

THEY ALSO SERVE is populated with characters that seem to live in any neighborhood, which makes it easy to care what happens to the cast as they move from one trauma to another crisis. The fast-paced story line is filled with action, but author Mike Moscoe changes the pace occasionally with thought-provoking concept that impels the reader to reflect for a moment. Mr. Moscoe provides the audience with a powerful military science fiction.

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They Also Serve is a fascinating account of one woman's experiences during World War II within the Special Operations Executive and the WRNS. At the Scandinavian Section of the SOE, Dorothy Baden-Powell was engaged in sending Norwegian saboteurs into occupied Norway and debriefing them on their return to London. After spending a year and a half with the SOE, at the age of 21, she was given an assignment in the WRNS to try to break a ring of enemy spies. During her assignment, she endured the privations of life on the lower deck, assaults by drunken sailors ashore, the unwelcome scrutiny of a particularly unpleasant WRNS Superintendent, and a trumped-up charge and subsequent court-martial. This book is a remarkable story of bravery and dedication and, moreover, is a tribute to all those men and women who served their country during the Second World War.

ANALOG - Science Fact and Fiction - Volume 67, number 1 - September Sept 1961: The Blaze of Noon; They Also Serve; Fifty Per Cent Prophet; Modus Vivendi

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ANALOG - Science Fact and Fiction - Volume 67, number 1 - September Sept 1961: The Blaze of Noon; They Also Serve; Fifty Per Cent Prophet; Modus Vivendi
John W. (editor) (Randall Garrett; Avram Davidson; Donald E. Westlake; Darrel T. Langart; P. Schuyler Miller; H. C. Dudley) Campbell
Manufacturer: Street and Smith - Atlas Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000ICHD8M

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They Also Serve
Evelyn Martin Kelly Traynor
Manufacturer: Vantage
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0007GZ6CE

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They Also Serve
Hilary Green
Manufacturer: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0340898984

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They Also Serve
Peter Kyne
Manufacturer: Copp Clark
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MFCPDI

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They Also Serve
Margaret Baker
Manufacturer: Wm. Penn publishing corp
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0007EPHWA

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They Also Serve
Peter B Kyne
Manufacturer: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NW7TTU

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They Also Serve
Peter B. Kyne
Manufacturer: Cosmopolitan Book Corp
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000O9GSB2

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They Also Serve
Ian W. Beaton
Manufacturer: Xlibris Corporation
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Binding: Paperback

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The World War II experiences of Corporal Ian W. Beaton, U.S. Army as recorded by his 400 letters he wrote to his family. Excerpts from his letters accompanied by well-researched text provide a personal historical prospective on the majority of the sixteen million veterans who did not participate in combat, but never the less, "Also Served".

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"What would you give to have a great body without constantly dieting? Is it worth thirty minutes of your time three days a week? Are you willing to watch what you eat for two days a month if you could eat without deprivation the other twenty-eight days? Would you like to liberate yourself from the drudgery and monotony of constant dieting? I'm going to make you a promise that cannot be made by any other weight-loss program. I will show you an easy way to achieve permanent weight loss without permanent dieting. It won't take a lot of your time. And it will lead you out of diet hell."

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expensive.......2007-02-02

this book is only small, the larger book is much better and contains all the information from this one.

great addition.......2007-01-12

I bought this book to go along with my Curves membership. Very helpful.

Not worth it.......2006-08-04

Book is mostly daily eating charts for you to fill in. No different information than Curves book.

Helpful Information.......2006-02-25

This book has good information on a plan for change when away from home. The book seems easy to follow and am looking forward to the benefits outlined.

Oh, So That's What You Meant!.......2004-12-26

This book is an easy read with a description of Gary's diet that was to the point, informative, and made perfect sense. It was just like I was speaking directly with him and he even answered my questions as I thought of them. I like all of his books, but this one was of the most practical help to me in understanding and being able to follow his diet. I have made some of my own changes to my regular diet by drinking 'soyffee' a drink made from soya beans which I found on the net at www.S oy c of f e e.c om. Its a caffeine free substitute for regular coffee and very tasty.

Ahead of the curve in sleepy industry, Verlo owners go king size : An article from: Boulder County Business Report

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Ahead of the curve in sleepy industry, Verlo owners go king size : An article from: Boulder County Business Report
Stacy Freeborg
Manufacturer: Boulder Business Information Corporation
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000BDZTCU
Release Date: 2005-09-12

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THINGS THAT GO (Learning Curves)
Learning Curves
Manufacturer: Random House Children's Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0553183583
Release Date: 1987-08-01

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WE GO SHOPPING (Learning Curves)
Learning Curves
Manufacturer: Random House Children's Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0553183575
Release Date: 1987-08-01

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Curves on the Go
Gary Heavin
Manufacturer: DEEP BOOKS
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ASIN: B000K714TO

Fixed-income investment opportunities: The ten-year "elbow" in the GO yield curve (Bond market research)

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Fixed-income investment opportunities: The ten-year "elbow" in the GO yield curve (Bond market research)
Robert W LeLacheur
Manufacturer: Salomon Brothers
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ASIN: B00070RVXC

THINGS THAT GO LEARNING CURVES (A First Look-it-up Book)

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THINGS THAT GO LEARNING CURVES (A First Look-it-up Book)

Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers
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Binding: Hardcover

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We Go Shopping (Learning Curves)

Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers
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How to Eat to Live, Book 2 (How to Eat to Live)
Elijah Muhammad
Manufacturer: Secretarius Memps Publications
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For mare than 30 years, messenger Elijah Muhammad has been teaching the so called negroes of America on the proper foods to eat to improve their mental power, physical appearance, for prevention of illness, curing of ailments and prolonging life.

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How to eat to live, book no. 2
Elijah Muhammad
Manufacturer: Muhammad's Temple of Islam No. 2
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How to Eat to Live, Book No. 2 (From God in Person Master Fard Muhammad)

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How to Eat to Live, Book No. 2 (From God in Person Master Fard Muhammad)

Manufacturer: Muhammad's Temple of Islam No. 2
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How to Eat to Live Book No. 1 & Book No. 2

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How to Eat to Live Book No. 1 & Book No. 2

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