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Actress playing miss marple disappoints
Someone misunderstood my post about miss marple ... She is of course a wonderful character but the new actress playing her is a disappointment to me.
Gerbam
Dollars to the popular
The discussion between 'low brow' and 'high brow' novels has been raging since novels became acceptable fare in the 19th century. Now like then no one could agree upon what was 'low' and what was 'high' and especially what they were worth. I remember a 60 MINUTES program...
I began to keep track of the books I read in January 1977 and continue to this day. Years ago I created a database for this purpose and find it wonderful to have my progress in alphabetical order by writer and the year listed next to the title. It's a wonderful feeling paging back to see how...
I have found some more 'cerebral' mystery writers in translation:
Hakan Nesser
Peter Hoeg
Kirsten Ekman
Well plotted suspense thrillers and good characterizations. Have not read too many books in the last months.
What have you all been busy with?
GERBAM
Heteronym
thank you for the heads up on Crispin and Chesterton I have several Crispins in my TBR pillars and will certainly move them up and search out Chesterton
dude
now i am more able to understand your comments and on many of the issues you raise i can see your point
when i said it was thru pecola's eyes i wasn't clear i shoulld have said she is the reason for the book ... she stands as a symbol for the whole
it's interesting that this was...
dude
Too bad you were disappointed in THE BLUEST EYE which is a masterpiece, imho and that of millions of readers. Of course not every book that is written will appeal to every single person who reads it.
But if you see this novel as the writer hoped you would through the eyes of Pecola who is...
salliotthomas
lol lol lol my next 'discovery' is LUIZ ALFREDO GARCIA-ROZA a Brazillian writer who has a wonderful police procedural series.
I will keep an eye out for Larry Brown ... thank you for the recommendation
btw
your website is awesome :))
salliotthomas, hi
omg i'm not the 'specialist' lol i just like to read alot and talk about the really good stuff i find
it's ironic that i never heard of larry brown
he's one i am going to have to check out
salliothomas what did you think of him? and have you read dirty work too?
eager...