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[lynnbodoni]

A year or so ago I decided to try some Nero Wolfe books (by Rex Stout). I loved them, and read half a dozen or so. Ever since, I've been getting one or two at the library on occasion, as I find them. I think that Rex Stout can really write a compelling story, even though he was a man of his times and had some definitely sexist ideas. He's

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[skipmagic]

When I was a kid and got sent to my room for being, well, a misbehaved kid, I didn't often complain. I always had my books, and I don't think my mom ever wanted to be the person who told a kid not to read as a punishment. Either that or she didn't think about how reading books would be something fun to do; I was the only person in my family who willingly read books. (Up until my half-sister a few years back. I gave her Lloyd Alexander's Prydain Chronicles and told her that, despite her earlier insistence in not reading outside of school, she had to finish them--and then tell me what she thought. Since then, she's been hooked on fantasy novels; now I'm trying to get her to branch out to the classics. I feel all parental and wise and crap.)

I think one of the reasons that I married auntie em was because she had a Master's in Literature. We don't normally read the same books, and we don't come to the same conclusions when our reading does cross paths, but it's nice knowing that she loves reading, too. If nothing else, that'd

[billdo1]

I love Nero Wolfes. They were the first mystery series I got hooked on when I was young. I think I very nearly read all of them. Now when I'm visiting my parents house, I'll sometime reread one, and realize how well put together they are.

I particularly like the modified Holmes/Watson technique, where Archie, the narrator/assaitant, picks up pieces of what the brilliant detective learns. Keeping Wolfe in place (most of the time) adds a nice tension in most of the story.

If you're looking for a similarly structured, though totally different, mystery series, you might try Bruce Alexander's Sir John Fielding Mysteries (Blind Justice is the first), which feature a blind magistrate in seventeenth century London and his young assistant.

[lno]

Soundtrack of Return to Zork

Want some rye?

'COURSE ya do!

[ckaczor]

Damn few.

And they're all dead.

[lynnbodoni]

I wish I had a working Win95 machine. I played Myst before I played R2Z, and thought that I didn't like graphic adventures. I couldn't resist trying an Infocom graphic adventure, though.

Zork: Nemesis was a big disappointment to me, but I loved Zork: Grand Inquisitor. That game always cracked me up.

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