My step-sister, who has a PhD in English, just said that The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is the first mystery she's ever read. How is that possible?
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Volans - Aug 19, 2010 3:27:31 pm PDT #12036 of 28342
move out and draw fire
Amy - Aug 19, 2010 3:35:04 pm PDT #12037 of 28342
Because books.
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is the first mystery she's ever read
No Christie?! No Conan Doyle?! No P.D. James, for goodness sake?!
Jessica - Aug 19, 2010 3:39:17 pm PDT #12038 of 28342
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The only mysteries I've read are the ones I picked up at my grandmother's house after running out of other books (since she uses the spare bedroom mainly to store books when she's done reading them). I doubt I could tell you any of their names.
-t - Aug 19, 2010 3:42:27 pm PDT #12039 of 28342
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Does Oedipus Rex count? I would think so.
Volans - Aug 19, 2010 4:46:19 pm PDT #12040 of 28342
move out and draw fire
No Christie?! No Conan Doyle?! No P.D. James, for goodness sake?!
Not even Nancy Drew.
Amy - Aug 19, 2010 4:47:21 pm PDT #12041 of 28342
Because books.
That baffles me, Raq. I mean, a PhD in ENGLISH! Wow.
I love mysteries.
Dana - Aug 19, 2010 4:51:17 pm PDT #12042 of 28342
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Huh, Nancy Drew might have been the first mysteries I read. And Hardy Boys. And Trixie Belden.
Amy - Aug 19, 2010 4:52:36 pm PDT #12043 of 28342
Because books.
I skipped Trixie Belden because my mom had her Cherry Ames books.
Jesse - Aug 19, 2010 5:05:09 pm PDT #12044 of 28342
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I imagine there are mystery families and not-mystery families, in addition to people.
DavidS - Aug 19, 2010 5:37:45 pm PDT #12045 of 28342
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
That baffles me, Raq. I mean, a PhD in ENGLISH! Wow.
Mysteries aren't really on the curriculum. I mean, I had a B.A. in English and never read a mystery until I was well out of college. (Well, excepting Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators and some other juveniles.) I read other things for light reading. Some people don't do light reading at all. I've never read anything by Agatha Christie.
I didn't really read mysteries until I started studying Film Noir then I went back to Woolrich, Chandler, Thompson, Hammett and Willeford.