Nick F. wrote: <<I find both Stout and Gardner (and Crofts and, to a lesser degree, both Queen and Street) pretty lifeless writers. Their books often don't...
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Xavier Lechard
xavierlechard
Apr 28, 2008 4:23 pm
Nick F. wrote: <<Granted, Wolfe and Goodwin are well rounded characters. However, they're about the only living people in Stout's books. Everything else -...
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Xavier Lechard
xavierlechard
Apr 28, 2008 4:24 pm
Jeffrey Marks wrote: <<I'm reading for the best novel Edgar, and one of the common things I see is the novel where you see everyone's POV repeatedly. I...
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faterson2001
Apr 28, 2008 4:40 pm
... Ah, are you sure you mean "Holmes and Watson", rather than just "Holmes"? What's so remarkable about Watson, really, beside his daftness? (Pardon my...
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rauter25
Apr 28, 2008 4:59 pm
Thanks, Curt. I ordered PURITAN PLEASURES through interlibrary loan. Good secondary literature is so rare. Thanks again Juergen ... I...
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alfredjunkyardgreen
alfredjunkya...
Apr 28, 2008 6:56 pm
... Stout and Gardner belong on the list for having created iconic characters that have influenced the genre in very specific ways. Gardner's character became...
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Sandy Kozinn
sandykozinn
Apr 28, 2008 7:39 pm
... Thanks for expressing this so clearly in your post (much of which I've snipped to save bandwidth), Xavier. One of my pet literary peeves is the review that...
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Sandy Kozinn
sandykozinn
Apr 28, 2008 7:51 pm
... Everything we see in the Canon, except for the two stories written by Holmes himself (not generally regarded as the best) or from a third person standpoint...
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alfredjunkyardgreen
alfredjunkya...
Apr 28, 2008 8:00 pm
... reader ... just "Holmes"? ... Glad to see your Stout love but it is my submission to you that the Nero Wolfe-Archie Goodwin chemistry IS the Holmes -Watson...
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Jeffrmarks@...
jeffrey1marks
Apr 28, 2008 8:59 pm
Nick I'll try On Beulah Heights, but I've already tried two other books, both later titles. In neither case did I find the book well-plotted. In fact in one,...
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Jeffrmarks@...
jeffrey1marks
Apr 28, 2008 9:04 pm
Sandy Boucher was very plain in his reviewing that he measured a book not by his own preferences, but by the type/standard of the genre being written. So a...
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Sandy Kozinn
sandykozinn
Apr 28, 2008 9:16 pm
Thanks, Jeff! I wasn't thinking so much of Boucher, who at least tried to be fair, in my screed as of the many current reviewers in the New York Times Magazine...
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Monte Herridge
monteherridge
Apr 28, 2008 9:41 pm
I have Gilbert's Smallbone, Deceased in a BBC recording that is 86 minutes long. I guess I should get around to listening to it soon. I don't have the book of...
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faterson2001
Apr 28, 2008 10:00 pm
... I respect your submission but I profoundly disagree with it. :-) The *opposite* of what you say was the point I was trying to make in my previous post:...
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miketooney49
Apr 28, 2008 10:39 pm
Recently the subject of blurbs resurfaced on this forum. A page about them has just been created on the GADetection Wiki: ...
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Kevin Killian
kevinrkillian
Apr 28, 2008 11:19 pm
I like it, Mike, but it seems to me a shame to conflate simple jacket copy with the "blurb." In almost all of the examples on the Wiki, the compiler has...
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Douglas G. Greene
dgreene23529
Apr 28, 2008 11:47 pm
I just received a copy of GADer Hal White's THE MYSTERIES OF REVEREND DEAN, and I encourage all of you buy the book. The stories are imaginative, and...
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Nicholas Fuller
stoke_moran
Apr 29, 2008 12:44 am
Hill produced a string of masterpieces in the 1990s: Recalled to Life, Pictures of Perfection, The Wood Beyond, On Beulah Height and, skipping over Arms and...
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Douglas G. Greene
dgreene23529
Apr 29, 2008 1:55 pm
I agree with Nick. ON BEULAH HEIGHTS is a masterpiece, but ARMS AND THE WOMAN is a tired thriller and DEATH'S JEST BOOK is much overblown. Strange, because...
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Taylor401306@...
taylor401306
Apr 29, 2008 3:57 pm
In a message dated 04/28/2008 12:25:16 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ... You just explained many people's objection to Christie's"The Murder of Roger Ackroyd",...
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Taylor401306@...
taylor401306
Apr 29, 2008 4:32 pm
In a message dated 04/28/2008 12:25:16 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ... And yet "League of Frightened Men" was chosen by H.R.F Keating as the only Wolfe novel to...
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alfredjunkyardgreen
alfredjunkya...
Apr 29, 2008 5:04 pm
... anything ... just Umm, I honestly think this is just the popular understanding of the Watson character but not what is actually written in the canon. See ...
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RICHARD LIEDHOLM
richardliedholm
Apr 29, 2008 5:16 pm
Hello! I have been reading the Holmes-Watson, Goodwin-Wolfe debate with considerable interest and some amount of amusement and I thought I just had to add my...
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Enrique F. Bird
efbp
Apr 29, 2008 5:36 pm
Friends, I find it amusing that so many in the list dislike TLOFM so much. John Dickson Carr chose it for his ten great detective novels planned anthology. I...
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miketooney49
Apr 29, 2008 7:44 pm
... 'I like it, Mike, but it seems to me a shame to conflate simple jacket copy with the "blurb." In almost all of the examples on the Wiki, the compiler has...
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vegetableduck
Apr 29, 2008 8:26 pm
Doug, that 1936 struck me too. Another, I believe, is Dorothy Simpson (admired by Barzun), who seems to have stopped writing? Curt ... AND ... overblown. ... ...
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vegetableduck
Apr 29, 2008 8:34 pm
SPOILER (although I'm sure you know by now, don't you?) The character is the narrator and being deliberately disingenuous. Entirely fair, in my opinion, a...
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miketooney49
Apr 30, 2008 3:09 pm
For you fans of the Saint film series, just a reminder that TCM will begin showing most of them this Saturday morning as double features. Here is a list of the...
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Christian Henriksson
sven_christi...
Apr 30, 2008 3:15 pm
... Boswell and Samuel Johnson? :) Christian Henriksson (christian.henriksson@...) -- The human race, to which so many of my readers belong. - G. K....
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Douglas G. Greene
dgreene23529
Apr 30, 2008 7:45 pm
That reminds me, is there ANY other series ... Raffles and Bunny? DG...
