Rust & Stardust; Bestseller

This one made me cry. I know, I read the "Real Lolita" a few weeks ago, but somehow this fictionalized version was even more heartbreaking. Sally Horner is kidnapped by Frank La Salle and taken from New Jersey to Baltimore, Texas, and finally California before Sally has a friendly neighbor call her sister and brother in law, who call the FBI and rescue her. Poor tragic girl. It was extremely well written, I thought Greenwood did an excellent job.

This book could have benefited from an editor. It was insanely repetitive. Did you know that Mary Higgins Clark's books come out around May each year? I do, because he mentioned it no less than seven times. He summarized "Misery" by Stephen King three times in three pages, using basically the same verbiage. I had to keep checking to make sure I wasn't going backwards instead of forwards. And he referred to "From a Buick 8" as "From a Buick 6". I'm sure there were many others I didn't catch. It wasn't as interesting as I hoped it would be, all it did was add to my "to read" list, which is already at approximately 8,000,000 titles and I'll have to live another 500 years to read them all. Oh well. What was interesting was how the list has changed in the last 20 years or so, with the rise of the internet. Books are no longer on the bestseller list for months at a time, they change much faster. I think (this is just my opinion, he didn't offer one) that publishing goes faster. Back in the day, an author would have to type out his manuscript and send it to the publisher, who would send it back with edits and changes, and back and forth and back and forth, and now all that's done much quicker in email.