Just Skimmed Through STORMS

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by macpai

I don't have that kind of clarity on things that happened 10 years ago in my own life, so I can't imagine how someone stoned would be that much better than me.

Well, she says she kept audio journals that helped her refresh her memory. Which reminds me, in another thread I said I think that one tape that's been circulated with Beverly and Sara talking with another woman named Kell -- I now think that's probably Carol Ann, not "Kell." They were calling her Carol and we just didn't know it at the time. I haven't heard that Conversations tape in a long while, but I'd like to hear it again and see if the pieces fit.


David,

As far as the dramatic language goes, the only thing I'd give her leeway on is that Stevie and Lindsey do talk in crazy extremes sometimes. So, I believe they would say some pretty unnatural, overblown sounding things.

But the moment when the book started off with her and her six (?) sisters sitting curled up around the room reading, I knew I was in for a ride.

Now, what do you think about the shooting of the Rolling Stone bed cover? To me, that's not only odd because no one else describes it taking place that way and in that place (Carol's home), not even Annie, who would be an objective source. But I think it's a calculated lie, in that it seems designed to undermine what Lindsey and Stevie have said more recently about holding each other (Stevie says for a couple of hours) during that shoot. Carol seems to have written in a way deliberately designed to undermine that story.

You know, I was watching a documentary on the Amityville Horror phenomenon and one guy pointed out a passage in the story where the priest (I believe) was driving away from the haunted house and the hood of his car flew up and blocked his vision. The critic pointed out that that couldn't have happened in that car because the hood is reversed on the model and could not fly up and block the windshield. So, then in the second edition of the book, they put the priest in another car. It made me laugh. Carol once talked about a second edition of her book coming out and I would have been interested in seeing what she would have changed. But it was never published.


Michele