Murder in the Balance Monday

[evelyn_b]

What I've Finished

Miss Pym Disposes shed its harem-anime lightness eventually -- well, the harem goes first and then the lightness, though neither one completely -- and becomes something else: a slow-building meditation on justice and responsibility? Shrewd and quiet dismantling of the entire premise of the mystery genre? Fascinating period piece

Comments

[lost_spook]

Alleyn has just been writing a very Alleynesque letter to Troy, in which carefully measured portions of soppiness act as awkward buffers between long passages of forensic observation.

Aww.

And naturally, you don't always get along with Josephine Tey - she is much too suspicious of your eye colour! ;-)

[evelyn_b]

<3

I'm going to miss Tey when I run out of books -- not that I can't reread if I feel like it, but I'll miss being surprised by her plots and not at all surprised by her total lack of sympathy for labor unions and people with unpleasing faces.

Tey is the only writer with the COURAGE to tear away these flimsy masks of non-lying non-nymphomania to reveal the dark blue heart of our true eye-selves! We ought to be grateful for such piercing clarity.

:)

[lost_spook]

Until now we never knew ourselves! *nods*

[a_phoenixdragon]

*Drive-by squish*

[evelyn_b]

I hope your job sorts itself out soon!

[a_phoenixdragon]

It did. Still a few hitches, but nothing like it was that first night!

:D

[liadtbunny]

The Long Goodbye is ace! Chandler changed whodunit for the movie. He likes a good textile too. I like the step to his house (it is described!) but I don't know if that's where he's living in The Long Goodbye.

[evelyn_b]

He drags a drunk Terry Lennox up the steps to his house on Yucca Avenue, is that the one?

I love it a lot so far. I'm also pretty confused, but it works, because who could live in this world and not be confused? Chandler is a whole deck of aces.

[liadtbunny]

I think so?:) I think the Long Goodbye is one of his best.

[scripsi]

I don't read Chandler for the plot, I read it for the language. in fact, the only one I remember who the muderer is, are The Woman In the Lake. Probably because it was the first I read. But I love his language!

[evelyn_b]

Me, too! I mean, I haven't gotten to the point of knowing who killed anyone yet, but I love Chandler's language.

[osprey_archer]

I've been planning to read another Chandler! Perhaps I should make The Long Goodbye my next one.