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?!
You're wrong about River. River's not on the ship. They didn't want her here, but she couldn't make herself leave. So she melted... Melted away. They didn't know she could do that, but she did.
River ,'Objects In Space'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Amy - Aug 19, 2010 3:35:04 pm PDT #12037 of 28597
Because books.
Jessica - Aug 19, 2010 3:39:17 pm PDT #12038 of 28597
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 28597
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 28597
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 28597
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 28597
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
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 28597
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 28597
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 28597
"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.
Amy - Aug 19, 2010 5:40:26 pm PDT #12046 of 28597
Because books.
I didn't mean they'd be on the curriculum. I meant that most people who do a PhD in English simply read a lot, and it surprises me she'd never read any mysteries at all.
I don't think all mysteries are light reading, either, though. I wouldn't say that of Elizabeth George's or most of Minette Walters, for sure.