Word: thunderstruck
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...Markell said he was thunderstruck. Like most people in this area, he has ties to Virginia Tech: his daughter graduated from the school in 1997 with a major in psychology. Markell, a former Cox Cable worker, said that he opened the shop eight years ago, to support his hobby, competition shooting, and since then has sold more than 16,000 guns. Up to yesterday, only four had turned up in homicides and two in suicides, he said...
...Thunderstruck" by Erik Larson (Crown; October...
...former TIME writer was mobbed at BookExpo when he signed copies of his forthcoming new book, "Thunderstruck." Larson is not one to rest on his laurels, even though his last smash hit, "The Devil in the White City," is still on the New York Times paperback list after 118 weeks. His latest nonfiction thriller is set in the Edwardian Age, and includes Marconi, the young inventor of radio. According to Larson's publisher, "A mild-mannered doctor known as 'the kindest of men' kills his wife in horrific fashion and buries her remains in the cellar of their London home...
WHEN I READ THE SCRIPT, AND WHEN IT STARTS TO TURN DARK, I WAS THUNDERSTRUCK. I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT WOULD INTEREST PEOPLE. I would have thought so too. Because it does hit you with sort of a left hook. But nobody seemed enthralled with that. Lakeshore Entertainment was always bullish but couldn't afford the whole thing, so as we were talking Warners called back and said it would come in for half of it. And the half was $15 million. In today's market, you know, 15 doesn't buy you a lot, but Lakeshore raised the rest...
...particular, it asks, Why didn't people run like hell? Some did, it turns out, and died anyway. Others stayed, out of fatalism or simply because they didn't know what a volcanic eruption was. They watch thunderstruck as pumice falls from the sky like an otherworldly snowstorm. Later, as superheated ash cascades, it is too late to flee...