The Bunter crush rules all.
edit: And the Dowager Duchess.
Every planet has its own weird customs. About a year before we met, I spent six weeks on a moon where the principal form of recreation was juggling geese. My hand to God. Baby geese. Goslings. They were juggled.
Wash ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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."
Connie Neil - May 17, 2012 1:18:14 pm PDT #18813 of 28333
brillig
Toddson - May 17, 2012 1:24:25 pm PDT #18814 of 28333
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Oh, yes!
Atropa - May 17, 2012 1:40:18 pm PDT #18815 of 28333
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
ooh ... I had a ollection of Saki's stories when I was young - I remembe loving them. I didn't understand some of them, but I enjoyed the twists.
Clovis was named after a Saki character. My dad read "The Open Window" to me when I was ... four? Five? Old enough to read it on my own, but unwilling to give up having a bedtime story read to me.
Ginger - May 17, 2012 4:26:50 pm PDT #18816 of 28333
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Get Lord Peter and you get Bunter and the Dowager Duchess. There's no bad there.
I was thinking about Dorothy Sayers when we were talking earlier, and I think it would have been great to have read Sayers at 12, except that I would have started comparing every man to Lord Peter earlier.
Dana - May 17, 2012 4:29:08 pm PDT #18817 of 28333
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
So I was just thinking about Agatha Christie and rereading some Perry Mason and mysteries, and in the old stories, people do things like distract the hotel desk clerk and then surreptitiously check the register where people have signed in.
Which is completely irrelevant today, what with computers. What other old standbys of mysteries are useless these days?
Typo Boy - May 17, 2012 4:35:37 pm PDT #18818 of 28333
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Hell, even in the left canon there are non bleak choices. Tent of Miracles. Or if that has too much reality, Dona Flora and her two husbands. And Amado has to have enough heft!
Also, talking of magical realism how about the Palm Wine Drinkard! Been a long time since I read it, so don't know if it is depressing - aside from being about a drunk who ends up in the land of the dead. I actually don't remember the details, but remember laughing a lot. Should read it again.
erikaj - May 17, 2012 4:39:53 pm PDT #18819 of 28333
Always Anti-fascist!
Anything with phonebooths, Dana. Jim Rockford spent half of his working life in one, and now?
Jesse - May 17, 2012 4:40:13 pm PDT #18820 of 28333
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
What other old standbys of mysteries are useless these days?
Most methods of travelling under a false name (hotels, airplanes at least). All kinds of things related to phones, what with cell phones.
Dana - May 17, 2012 4:42:16 pm PDT #18821 of 28333
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Yeah, Paul Drake's operative's always had to find a phone booth to call in. So did Archie Goodwin.
In the Perry Mason books, they're always hopping on planes at a minute's notice.
Hil R. - May 17, 2012 5:20:30 pm PDT #18822 of 28333
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Pretty much anything where the plot hinges on two people in different places not knowing what each other are doing. They can call or text each other now.