I am working on a post to the Lord Peter list (a Yahoo group). I can't quite figure out what my point is so I don't want to post it yet, but I didn't want to lose what I'd gotten down, either. So I'm putting it here as a placeholder ( Read more... )

Oooo. Wimsey-fic.

I hope no one minds me stashing this here -- I'd post this in my own RL journal but it might blow my cover (lordpeter is a roleplay journal for Peter Wimsey on the milliways_bar interfandom rp comm), and I imagine anyone subscribing to a Sayers comm wouldn't mind a bit of fic at any rate ( Read more... )

I adore Dorothy Sayers. I really do. I've recommended Gaudy Night to anyone who'll listen (though I'm usually loathe to lend my own tattered copy away ( Read more... )

Gaudy Night is a detective story; a love story; a psychological novel; an Oxford book, in the sense that Oxford is not merely the setting but also a character; a book that sings; that rare thing, a nearly perfect book.

( Integrity, "good work" and opposing forces )

I've been reading steadily, but am just now getting to the posting. Perhaps I'll have more coherent thoughts later, although much of what I'd want to say on sex and class and whatnot in Gaudy Night has already been said, and far better than I'd be able to muster, by truepenny. But, for now, some random thoughts on the first three Wimsey/Vane novels, in no ( Read more... )

Am out of sorts.

I finished Gaudy Night only to discover that Busman's Honeymoon is not in fact a book at all but a set of two plays, the version I got hold of at any rate. As the play would ruin the novel, even though it was written first, I shan't read it. This means that I'm stuck without a copy, unless I buy one or manage to turn one up at the ( Read more... )

truepenny's thoughts on Gaudy Night.

Gender. All in all, rather spoiler-less.
Class. Spoilers for the end of the book.

::spoiler warning ( Read more... )

Does anyone else occasionally wonder what our hero (and/or heroine) would think of us upon first meeting ( Read more... )

( Strong Poison Spoilers: I've finished! )