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■ NEW BOOKS
Delta Books and Delacorte Press will simultaneously publish
the “Book of the Dead*’ on March 16 in celebration of The
Grateful Dead s 25th year. The book describes them as they
were and how they have changed through the years.
‘The Bad Place’ is masterful
and full of bizarre plot twists
By JEFF RUTHERFORD
I Entertainment Writer
A book review of "The Dad Place"
I by Dean R. Koontz. Published in
hardback for $19.95 by G. P. Put
nam’s Sons.
Dean Koontz’B recent novels have
all vaulted up the best-sellers lists.
‘The Bad Place,” his latest sus
pense thriller, is already No. 1 on
the New York Times Best seller
List after only two weeks in the
bookstores.
Koontz has become a mandatory
buy for any real fan of suspense
novels. For many years, Koontz
was writing superb suspense
novels that floundered in the
bookstores because of poor mar
keting by his publisher. He also
wrote several best-selling novels
under a pseudonym because of bad
advice from agents. These novels
did nothing to promote Dean
Koontz’s writing career.
Koontz writes novels which he
terms “cross-genre” because of
their combination of suspense,
horror and scientific extrapolation.
‘The Bad Place,” is a perfect ex
ample of a Koontz novel.
Frank Pollard wakes up in
Southern California with a severe
■ BOOK REVIEW
case of amnesia. He has no idea
who or what he is, and the various
forged ID’s in his wallet don’t offer
any explanation. All he knows is
that something or someone is
chasing him, but he doesn’t know
why.
In desperation, Pollard goes to
Dakota & Dakota Investigations, a
husband and wife private detective
team, for help. They agree to take
Pollard’s case and begin their in
vestigation.
On a collision course with the in
vestigation is a serial killer named
Candy, whose favorite pastime is
slaughtering entire families.'The
Bad Place,” reels with suspense as
Candy’s path takes him closer and
closer to the Dakota’s investiga
tion.
‘The Bad Place,” is a masterful
suspense novel filled with bizarre
occurrences. Koontz succeeds in
tying all these factors together,the
reby creating his unique brand of
suspense. He successfully offers a
strange but plausible explanation
for the novel’s weird plot.
Koontz’s prose style is flawless.
His novels are highly readable, his
paragraphs and sentences flow
smoothly without any wasted
words.
‘The Bad Place,” has some faults
though. Koontz has stated in
countless interviews that he likes
to infuse his novels with an opti
mistic theme. This works okay ex
cept with some of his characters.
Many times, they will spend a page
or two involved in trite conversa
tion which is mostly unrealistic.
In “The Bad Place,” a character
encounters an attractive female
secretary who is interested in him,
and she gives him the following
speech.
“Besides, being in the sun makes
me feel ... oh, not lazy exactly, be
cause I ditn’t mean it zaps my en-
ergy, just the opposite, it makes feel
full of energy, but a lazy energy,
sort of the way a lioness walks - you
know?- strong Uxtking but easy. The
sun makes me feel like a lioness
Have you ever heard someone
talk like that? When Koontz slips
into such non-sensical dialogue, it
jars the reader from the spell cast
by good fiction. But ‘Trie Bad
Place” succeeds in the end.
Grammys cap ‘year of veterans’
By ANDREW LAWLER
Entertainment Writer
Regardless of how the 32nd
Grammy Awards turn out, this will
be forever known as the year when
“everything old was new again.”
This was the year when rock and
roll veterans, some with over 25
years of experience, returned with
music as fresh as their first hits.
1989 saw ex-Eagle (and if all
goes well future Eagle) Don Henley
returning with his best work in
years. “The End of the Innocence”
was that rare creation, a critically
acclaimed album, that sold lots and
lots.
“Henrtbreaker” Tom Petty
weighed in with “Full Moon
Fever,” his most recent solo efTort.
“Fever” not only garnered Grammy
nominations, but also helped put
some quality videos back on MTV.
Petty was also recognized by
Grammy for his work with ‘The
Traveling Wilburys,” the latest of
rock’s supergroups. The band, with
over 200 cumulative years of rock
experience, also featured George
Harrison, Bob Dylan, Jeff Lynne,
and in almost his last performance,
Roy Orbison.
If anything symbolized this
years’s Grammys, it was the return
of, until John Lennon returns from
Heaven, rock’s greatest living
group-The Rolling Stones. The
Stones released a best-selling
album, went on a tour that’s al
ready grossed over 100 million dol
lars, and (although Grammy-less
so far) were nominated for “Mixed
Emotions,” in the best rock vocal,
duo or group category.
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Cotton Patch Gospel tells story of
Jesus as man in 1950’s Georgia
Michael Spillers: Is directing the Cotton Patch Gospel for the Baptist Student Union's
annual dinner theater fundraiser which will be performed this weekend
By COLEEN BROOKS
entertainment Writer
Don’t miss your chance to see
the “greatest story ever retold” at
the Baptist Student Union this
week.
The BSU’s presentation of a
work by Harry Chapin, a dinner
theater called Cotton Patch
Gospel begins with a dessert per
formance tonight. The Union an
nually puts on a dinner theater to
raise money for student summer
missions.
Michael Spillers, a junior
broadcast major and director of
the play, said Cotton Patch
Gospel is the story of the life of
Jesus had he been born in
Georgia in the late 1950s.
Robin Pruett, a junior educa
tion major, is in charge of
summer fund raising as well as a
cast member of Cotton Patch.
She said she thinks the play
will help people to understand
the life of Jesus better because,
it’s easier to relate to the events
of the New Testament in a more
modem setting.
‘The main purpose of Cotton
Patch, besides raising money for
missions, is to get people to stand
back and look at tne life of Jesus
and see why he came, and what
his life was all about,” Pruett
said.
Pruett said the dinner theater
is the BSU’s major fund-raiser of
the year, with a $12,000 fund
raising goal.
The money goes to members of
the BSU who will be going out all
over the country as missionaries
for ten weeks this summer, she
said.
The student missionaries work
mainly with children, either by
helping in vacation Bible schools
or in Christian camps sponsored
by the Southern Baptist Conven
tion, she said.
Pruett said she was a mis
sionary to Nevada for a summer,
and that it was a really won
derful experience.
“It’s a chance to get closer to
God and help other people in the
process. A lot of people’s lives are
affected by the missionaries and
their missions," Pruett said.
Spillers said the BSU dinner
theatre has earned a reputation
for quality in the Athens commu
nity, and this year’s combination
of talented actors and interesting
subject matter will continue that
tradition.
“I think Cotton Patch will be
successful, because although it
has religious overtones, it is also
full of regular common truths
that everyone can easily relate
to,” Spillers said.
Cotton Patch Gospel will be
presented at the Baptist Student
Union tonight at 8:00, Friday and
Saturday night at 7:00 and
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