books i've read this year...

[txorakeriak]

1. Jane Austen: "Emma"
2. David Cordingly: "Life Among the Pirates - the Romance and the Reality"
3. John Hampden & Francis Drake: "Sir Francis Drake - Pirat im Dienst der Queen"
4. Dan Brown: "Angels and Demons"
5. Dan Brown: "The DaVinci Code"
6. Anthony Blackmore: "Rum, Sodomy & The Lash - A Devon Lad's Life in Nelson's Navy"
7. Agatha Christie

Comments

[jack4will]

Love Agatha Christie. There are only a few mystery writers I like. She is one of the best. I nearly have all of her books.

[txorakeriak]

Yeah, I've become quite nitpicky as well when it comes to mystery writers. I don't like many of them, and Agatha Christie has been, is and will always be my Queen of Crime. :)

[jack4will]

Oh yeah she always will be. I like Conan Doyle, Dick Francis, Lillian Jackson Braun and one other one who sets her stories in the elite of Boston Society.

[txorakeriak]

I don't like Arthur Conan Doyle - at least not Sherlock Holmes - because he gives the reader NO CHANCE AT ALL to guess the culprit. Agatha Christie gives you lots of clues and if you pay attention and keep a clear head, you actually stand a chance against the master detectives or the police. That's what I love about crime fiction. :)

Apart from her, I like Elizabeth George (Lynley/Havers), Georges Simenon (Inspecteur Maigret) and Brigitte Aubert (various). :)

[jack4will]

Cool. The only author I don't like is P D James. Never can finish one of hers. Way way to much detail to something that doesn't even take part of the murder or anything.