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I've read Curtain, Mirror Crack'd, Styles, Nile, Murder on the Links, Orient Express, Roger Ackroyd, and currently And Then There Were None.
I personally like Dorothy Sayers better. Christie's whodunnits are fun, but I enjoy Sayers with deeper plots/themes/etc. better.
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11-12-2004, 11:16 PM
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I just read The Hollow. It was weird, but really good.
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12-26-2004, 09:26 PM
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yes, I completely agree.
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. I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç Ã¥ â„¢ æ ♪ ?*"How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva! |
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01-26-2005, 12:07 PM
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I have just acquired a book incorporating two stories by AC and DLS: The Spoof and Behind the curtain. I'm looking forward to reading it.
The Detection Club produced several of these joint efforts, IIRC.
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Inked "Aslan is not a tame lion." CSL/LWW "The new school [acts] as if it required...courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that requires real courage to say, and that is a truism." GK Chesterton "And there is always the danger of allowing people to suppose that our modern times are so wholly unlike any other times that the fundamental facts about man's nature have wholly changed with changing circumstances." Dorothy L. Sayers, 1 Sept. 1941 |
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Christie is not in the same league as, say, Austen, but for me, her books are good brainless fun. Even tho I know "who done it", I still enjoy reading them, esp. for her little dashes of humor and her way of making you picture her characters.
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. I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç Ã¥ â„¢ æ ♪ ?*"How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva! |
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RÃ*an...hmm...Inked...which Sayer's should she start with? Let's say not any of the Vane/Wimsey yet, nor Nine Tailors (a little much to jump right into). Clouds of Witness isn't exceptional, too/either. So...Whose Body, Bellona Club, Natural Death, Advertise? 
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01-26-2005, 11:20 PM
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MURDER MUST ADVERTISE if it can't be a Lord Peter Wimsey. MMA is witty, fast-paced and as on target in today's milieu of advertising as it was when there was only written screed!
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I didn't like Nine Tailors at all... the ending just bugged me in a big way.
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Nine Tailors - I don't remember that one... There's a few I actually threw away after I read them, but I must have about 20 or 25 still, and I'll pick one up every once in awhile and enjoy it.
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. I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç Ã¥ â„¢ æ ♪ ?*"How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva! |
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01-28-2005, 05:51 PM
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Just for clarification, Nine Tailors is by Sayers as opposed to Christie.
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