Answers for Yesterday
>> Wednesday, March 17, 2010
I'm going to write such the good answer for Phyl who has patiently waited, now, about a week. I'll try to get it up by midnight (I did have plenty of time to think about it).
Here are the answers. Clearly my non-SF/F and non-classics are desperately eclectic, too eclectic for most. Oh well, here they are:
- These Old Shades, the best of a positive pantheon of excellent Georgette Heyer classics
- Artemis Fowl, by Eoin Colfer (I hope I spelled that right). Yeah, I'm charmed by sarcasm.
- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Shogun by James Clavell
- Watership Down by Robert Adams
- Hawaii by James Michener
- The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum I'm not much into mysteries but I do like these. I don't like Clancy, though.
- The Red Dragon by Thomas Harris, my favorite of his books, though not the most well known.
- Imitation in Death by JD Robb (aka Nora Roberts)
- Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy Sayers
By the way, I forgot to mention that the bonus on the first one I did was All Things Bright and Beautiful by James Herriot. Undoubtedly, his books are my favorite non-novels.
Okay, I am now beating myself on the head for having missed Watership Down and Hawaii. I really should have caught them; my only excuse is that it's been over 10 years since I read either of them.
I figure you only have to beat yourself up if you've read them and, truthfully, the first line of both is hardly indicative of the whole.
I have read Watership Down and Hawaii. Yet again, not for a very long time.
The Bourne Identity isn't a mystery, it's a thriller. Same with Clancy.
Agreed. I generally don't read mysteries. I read thrillers instead. I just didn't state so clearly. I don't personally care for Clancy, but I love Ludlum.
Sorry for being so picky, but now you're treading on my genre.
Clancy would never have gotten published today. Too many pages of expose before a single thing happens.
Interesting.
I don't like Clancy. His characters make no sense to me and he gets his facts wrong. I hate that and only forgive people who write great characters.
Mysteries tend to be too dry for me. I knew the difference, but wasn't clear that I read thrillers instead of mysteries. Just not everyone's.
But many people love mysteries. I think it's cool so many people like so many different things.
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I'm afraid I've only read Secret Garden. I tried Watership Down more times than I can count--never could get past the first few chapters.
I'm pretty much not an eclectic reader. If it ain't YA or a classic, I ain't likely to read it (cool how I got "ain't" into the conversation twice, huh?). Then again, Watership Down is YA, and I still don't like it. I guess I'm really picky.
Eclectic ain't the right word to describe you.
nice post,good for you!
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