![]() ![]() Like so many elite athletes, he excelled at other sports and initially wanted to play for the Oakland Raiders.Īt Oakland Tech High School, Henderson also ran track for a bit, played football, basketball and baseball. Henderson came of age during the tumultuous 1960s and 1970s and found his way in sports. And they understood why, Hutton was just 18 – the same age Rickey and his group were now – when he was killed by police two days after Martin Luther King, Jr. The kids saw the (Black) Panthers, dressed like superhero-revolutionaries, who were armed to protect them, and saw what the FBI did to them, from little Bobby Hutton to Fred Hampton. “That attitude seemed to permeate the city. “Almost as a collective, residents of Black Oakland had arrived in town seeking better and by disposition were ready to demand their rights without asking for permission,” Bryant writes. ![]() At the 1984 All-Star Game with Eddie Murray (left) and Chili Davis (right), Henderson was now a perennial All-Star - but fumed about not being paid as much as the game’s home-run hitters. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The depictions of his life after leaving Scotland also rang true as I myself spent 15 long years in London tho unlike Dennis ( I’m no calling him Des, cos to me people who have to change their names usually have something to hide) i worked in mental health care and nursed many broken people, some of whom had killed and caused chaos to themselves and others. As a Scot myself I thought the insights about Nilsen’s life and spiritual death in Scotland were, un usually, for an English writer accurate and unsensational, despite such clear dysfunction on which Mr Masters could have drawn upon to make the end even more horrible. I first read this book when I was a teenager, I think it was the first book about serial killers, and now 30 years later on audiobook, it’s no less difficult to hear because of Nilsen and his murders. A fascinating, unsettling and harrowing listen ![]() ![]() ![]() But her indecent proposal-one month, no strings, no future-proves too tempting for a man who strains to keep his passions buried with the losses of his past. He could never, ever afford to fall for Seraphina. Her ideals are her purpose, her friends are her family, and her paramours are forbidden to linger in the morning.Īdam Anderson is a wholesome, handsome, widowed Scottish architect, with two young children, a business to protect, and an aversion to scandal. To raise funds for her cause, she’s set to publish explosive memoirs exposing the powerful man who ruined her. Seraphina Arden’s passions include equality, amorous affairs, and wild, wine-soaked nights. ![]() She’s a Rakess on a quest for women’s rights… Meet the SOCIETY OF SIRENS-three radical, libertine ladies determined to weaponize their scandalous reputations to fight for justice and the love they deserve… ![]() ![]() ![]() Appropriately enough, I’ve ranked these rankings from 1 to 10 (and transcribed the listings when appropriate), starting with: 1. ![]() I also suspect many of the lists’ compilers let their kids vote (the likely reason for the GOOSEBUMPS inclusion).īelow are 10 horror fiction listings that are more authoritative in every respect. Lovecraft stories that inspired that book. Likewise, I strongly doubt there would have been an entry for NECRONOMICON if only more of the compilers had bothered to peruse the H.P. I tend to think those writers might have made the list had The Book Depository’s customers actually read any of them. Wright or a myriad of other horror masters. Note the overabundance of Stephen King titles and lack of anything by Ramsey Campbell, Michael McDowell, T.M. THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS by Thomas Harris THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jacksonġ2. ![]() THE COMPLETE TALES & POEMS OF EDGAR ALLAN POEĨ. ![]() Check out the following “Scariest Books of All Time” list, chosen by customers of The Book Depository: Scariest Books of All TimeĤ. My problems with most rankings of this sort are that they often evince an ill-informed knowledge of horror fiction, and that certain titles tend to recur on every listing (DRACULA, THE TURN OF THE SCREW, much of the oeuvre of Stephen King). Scary book/story rankings: the web is littered with such lists, and there’s even a whole book of them (2008’s THE BOOK OF LISTS: HORROR). ![]() |