If I wait long enough I forget whodunit.
Funny thing about black and white. You mix it together and you get gray. And it doesn't matter how much white you try and put back in, you're never gonna get anything but gray.
Lilah ,'Destiny'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
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."
erikaj - May 22, 2005 2:57:57 pm PDT #7763 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Connie Neil - May 22, 2005 3:02:19 pm PDT #7764 of 10002
brillig
I used to re-read my Martha Grimes a whole lot more than I did, but now I just re-read the Melrose Plant portions. Plus there's all my Sayers and Elizabeth Peters. The mystery itself comes second, it's the character interaction I enjoy. Heron Carvic's Miss Seeton books are fun to re-read as well.
Do gothic-type mysteries count? Because my Mary Stewart's are over 25 years old and still getting--carefully--reread. Likewise the Jane Aiken Hodges.
Dana - May 22, 2005 3:03:20 pm PDT #7765 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I definitely reread mysteries. If you're not focused on who the murderer is, you can pick up other details. And sometimes the language and the world-building is just fun.
Betsy HP - May 22, 2005 3:28:45 pm PDT #7766 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
There are several mystery writers I read without caring a single little bit who killed whom. Sarah Caudwell comes to mind -- I'm there for the dialogue, not the plot. I read Jonathan Gash for the antique neepery.
Jesse - May 22, 2005 3:33:46 pm PDT #7767 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Actually, I own Mrs. Charles Wuertzer (she put a return address label in the books) for much of my mystery reading habits. Almost all the books I bought at the rummage sales (Ellery Queen, Perry Mason, Nero Wolfe, Agatha Christies) were hers first.
That's fantastic.
Calli - May 23, 2005 6:23:35 am PDT #7768 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Like I said, I don't think Anita's jumped any of her were-lovers while they weren't human.
(Spoilers for Incubus Dreams): She kinda sorta does, in ID. Well, the guys are sort of in a half-way stage, anyway. How fuzzy do they have to be to count?
I used to re-read my Martha Grimes a whole lot more than I did, but now I just re-read the Melrose Plant portions.
I do this, too. In spite of him not quite working with the character description (piercing green eyes, etc.) I tend to picture Melrose being played by ASH.
sumi - May 23, 2005 12:18:58 pm PDT #7769 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
The Mythopoeic Society announces it's award winners.
Yeah, that word really seemed like it oughta have a "t", but guess what? It doesn't!
Consuela - May 23, 2005 3:39:26 pm PDT #7770 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Cool. I just started reading that Kage Baker novel.
Fred Pete - May 23, 2005 4:40:01 pm PDT #7771 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Calli, in response to your spoiler font, Alec Baldwin is fully human , AFAWeK.
Calli - May 24, 2005 4:07:45 am PDT #7772 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Much to Kim's relief, I'm sure. Although, if we're wrong, that might explain the break-up. She seems more like vamp bait to me. Maybe it's her role in Batman.