tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8732486.post5812429285602356018..comments2023-10-26T03:19:41.569-07:00Comments on Stephen Bodio's Querencia: Chimney Rock - A Chacoan OutlierSteve Bodiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14434597061701369867noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8732486.post-64144241770478281552009-08-11T22:13:27.683-07:002009-08-11T22:13:27.683-07:00That's sports bra thing is a nice catch, Chas....That's sports bra thing is a nice catch, Chas. I've known Mike and Kathy for about 30 years. I remember talking to them at a party in the late 1980s when they told me they had quit their jobs and were going to write novels for a living. We all thought they were crazy and had bets on how long it would be before they were out of money and back looking for work. The joke was on us.<br /><br />I think the three novels in the "Anasazi Mysteries" are their best work ("The Visitant", "The Summoning God" and "Bone Walker"). Mike and I had dinner together when I ran into him at the SAA meetings a few years ago in Salt Lake. I told him of my opinion on those books and he told me how much he and Kathy had enjoyed writing the "Dusty and Maureen" books as they call them - after the modern protagonists. He said fans were always after them to write more books with "Dusty and Maureen" in them but their agent and publisher keep pressuring them for more novels in "The People of.." series that is really a brand now. Chains of gold<br /><br />I am always in awe of how they seem able to just crank out the words. They're just scary prolificReid Farmerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18382498430164817928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8732486.post-48356361328646416212009-08-11T16:50:17.023-07:002009-08-11T16:50:17.023-07:00Lab Rat, I would still put Preston's Cities of...Lab Rat, I would still put Preston's <em>Cities of Gold</em> on my list of essential Southwest reads.<br /><br />WV: "Dealited." Didn't Teddy Roosevelt say that a lot?Chas S. Cliftonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00923547685265741325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8732486.post-4624147810044786292009-08-11T16:47:31.895-07:002009-08-11T16:47:31.895-07:00I reviewed the Gears' Bone Walker on my other ...I reviewed the Gears' <em>Bone Walker</em> on my other blog, <a href="http://www.chasclifton.com/2003/10/bone-walker-i-have-just-finished-bone.html" rel="nofollow">including its tacit acknowledgment that the Ancestral Puebloans invented the sports bra.</a><br /><br />Perhaps the Park Service could mention that in their exhibits.Chas S. Cliftonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00923547685265741325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8732486.post-3148924970259732512009-08-11T08:02:58.490-07:002009-08-11T08:02:58.490-07:00Those Anasazi/archeology novels by the Gears are g...Those Anasazi/archeology novels by the Gears are good- nice sense of place and interesting cutting back and forth from Anasazi to modern times. <br /><br />As to changing the view of "peaceful, ceremony-loving Anasazi", last time I was up at Bandelier it was "peaceful, ceremony-loving Ancestral Puebloan".mdmnmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00191436711956580423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8732486.post-65940850232381047972009-08-10T20:42:01.579-07:002009-08-10T20:42:01.579-07:00Douglas Preston is a bit unimaginative, but he doe...Douglas Preston is a bit unimaginative, but he does *good* research and that's one of his interests. You should try "Relic"- one of the reasons I enjoyed it was the amount of bio and evo-geekery evident in its construction. I was able to piece together what the monster was meant to look like just from the morphology jargon.<br /><br />Then Lincoln Child shows up and provides the characters and the action plot. A happy marriage of fiction.LabRathttp://www.atomicnerds.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8732486.post-65269236446774950222009-08-10T19:11:32.047-07:002009-08-10T19:11:32.047-07:00Well, I don't think the NPS will say anything ...Well, I don't think the NPS will say anything that might honk off the tribes these days. I agree with you Chas, it looks like something the Elector of the Palatine would come swooping down out of to harry the peasants.<br /><br />I remember that a lot of us used to get really honked off in the 70s and 80s about the USFS ban on fieldwork due to the Peregrine nests. You can visit the site now, but I'm pretty sure that they still have seasonal restrictions due to the Peregrines.<br /><br />I really enjoyed "Thunderhead", Lab Rat. You're the only other person I know who's admitted to reading it! I thought they did a pretty good job stringing together archaeology and romantic Southwest explorer adventure in an imaginative manner. At least as good as the Gears' work.Reid Farmerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18382498430164817928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8732486.post-57660628209293771362009-08-10T17:19:49.169-07:002009-08-10T17:19:49.169-07:00I would say approximately never.
Also, I rememb...I would say approximately never. <br /><br />Also, I remember reading <i>Thunderhead</i>, in which the idea of a Mesoamerican-Anasazi cultural connection was presented as very radical, with proof thereof being a goal rich enough to be worth an extremely dangerous expedition... times do change.LabRathttp://www.atomicnerds.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8732486.post-26913309379547425452009-08-10T16:27:20.732-07:002009-08-10T16:27:20.732-07:00Don't hold your breath under the current admin...Don't hold your breath under the current administration (or to be fair the last).Steve Bodiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14434597061701369867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8732486.post-12705871745292223032009-08-10T15:53:50.366-07:002009-08-10T15:53:50.366-07:00"Egalitarian" my Euro-American ass.
If ..."Egalitarian" my Euro-American ass.<br /><br />If Chimney Rock was on the Rhine, anyone passing by would look up at it and think, "That is where the baron lived."<br /><br />And I do not think that the "Ancestral Puebloans" were much different.<br /><br />So when do you think the Park Service is going to stop pushing the "peaceful, ceremony-loving Anasazi" line?Chas S. Cliftonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00923547685265741325noreply@blogger.com