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The Weatherman
(Steve Thayer)

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Abstract, oh abstract... what shalt thou be about?
Eh... what the hey, let's write you about The Weatherman.
It's a book, a good book, really. I found it on the shelves of Byerliese... or however the heck you spell it.
Yeah, Byerliese, of all places. Gotta love that cheesecake...
Anyways, this book is about a TV studio in the IDS building in Minneapolis downtown. Yeeeah, apparently they have them there. So, it's about a weatherman and his friends, enemies, coworkers, etc. And a killer who... kills people. Women. And they try to figure out who the killer is. Aren't most of the books like that, though, these days?
Hyah... Well, except this book's got some nice, crafty graphic details of the Vietnam war. That part was done very illustriously, I'll give Thayer that. There's the girl who loved him (the character, not the author, hehe), a young lady, all the while he was on the hospital bed; then there's a little girl he saved at another point, and other very accurate, I thought, images of Vietnam. That keeps this book a good distance from the Mary Higgins Clark, no doubt.
Yeah... until the second half. It's also divided in two halves.
The second one is about the death row. Here it gets more serious, more nerve-wrecking. The guy thought to kill all the women gets put on death row. And he stays there, and the book goes on about his experiences. At times dreadfully slow...
Me, not a big fan of the death row, the death penalty. This book reminded me fairly well why I made my decision to be so. It's just scary... being put behind bars for who knows how long without any hope of getting out. Well, there is hope, but one has nothing to look forward to, that must be the toughest part. And people are killed for killing people. Treated in the same way that they're getting punished for. Go figure.
Don't really want to get political, though. It's a controversial question, true. What can we do? Become part of the NCADP, write to congress, read books about it, watch Dead Man Walking with Sean Penn, or The Green Mile, or something. Still those are all an author's depiction of something very dark and... can only be understood when experienced first-handed, I suppose.
Yet people apparently want the death penalty, and 38 states plus the government have it in standing as it is.
Me, I think... we need to learn to reach out rather to punish. By taking all the time to decide whether this punishment is legit or not we seem to concentrate on the wrong problem, trying to decide how best to punish people more than how best to bring them to a more settled state of mind. How to keep them from acting against the society, and finding out what makes them do it in the first place.
Aaaaand I did get a little political now. Sometimes it's hard to resist, isn't it.
I personally know and understand what it means to see the world turned against you, with no visible path to take through the darkness. I believe people like me do feel hopeless, but not necessarilty rebellious. We need to be heard and understood. And we do teach our children and students that no question is a dumb or useless question, so no comment is a dumb comment either then. Everything's got a speck of wisdom in it someplace. So, speak out, people!!!! This site seems like a great place for all of us alike.
Thanks for your time!!!!!!



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