On spinal surgery

I've been reading a novel by Stephen King, another writer I've neglected for the past decade or close to two. I actually did read a very long pretty recent novel of his, The Dome, about a year ago. But in the early 1990s his writing changed. He got politically correct a really obnoxious extent, creating a character Dorothy Claibourne who was detestable in my opinion though presented as a hero. Then there was Gerald's Game, which had a terrific setup, but after making his politically correct point, he abandoned the story, as though he couldn't figure out how to get the woman out of the handcuffs before the maniac came upon her and killed her. He avoided the confrontation he'd been leading up to as though bored by such books. But such books are why he's so successful, not spinal surgery.

On carpet cleaners raleigh nc

The story I found most interesting in John D. MacDonald's collection The End of the Tiger is the longest one, about the trap of gold. He's saying that corporations of the time -- late 50s to early 60s expected their executives to maintain too high of a lifestyle on too small of a salary. The executive main character is in line to be CEO someday, and now gets around $25,000 which was a terrific salary then, but he and his wife are expected to maintain a certain status lifestyle, and the strain becomes too much for them. We think of thrift as an old-fashioned virtue, and they did what they could, but were still required to buy things too expensive for them. They couldn't just use any old carpet cleaners raleigh nc, especially since they lived in an expensive suburb in Connecticut even though he worked in New York City.