Another crazy blog comment: - CrimeSpace2024-03-28T20:16:21Zhttp://crimespace.ning.com/forum/topics/another-crazy-blog-comment?commentId=537324%3AComment%3A243862&feed=yes&xn_auth=noCrap? I'm shocked and disgust…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2010-07-27:537324:Comment:2438732010-07-27T17:27:52.584ZRichard Sandershttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/RichardSanders
Crap? I'm shocked and disgusted by this woman's language.
Crap? I'm shocked and disgusted by this woman's language. Our beloved sleuth may have t…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2010-07-27:537324:Comment:2438632010-07-27T16:42:50.079ZJon Loomishttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/JonLoomis
<i>Our beloved sleuth may have to don a studded dog collar, a feathered headdress and a rainbow thong to uncover the truth.</i><br />
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Kind of already did that one in HIGH SEASON. Great minds...
<i>Our beloved sleuth may have to don a studded dog collar, a feathered headdress and a rainbow thong to uncover the truth.</i><br />
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Kind of already did that one in HIGH SEASON. Great minds... Chandler forgets about surrea…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2010-07-27:537324:Comment:2438622010-07-27T16:41:12.591ZJon Loomishttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/JonLoomis
Chandler forgets about surrealism. Was Kafka's <i>Metamorphosis</i> meant to be realistic? And of course he wasn't around for the birth of magical realism.<br />
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I think reader "Ann" and I are so different in nearly every regard that we're almost not the same species.<br />
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Been around? Moi? What are you suggesting, Ms. Fugit?
Chandler forgets about surrealism. Was Kafka's <i>Metamorphosis</i> meant to be realistic? And of course he wasn't around for the birth of magical realism.<br />
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I think reader "Ann" and I are so different in nearly every regard that we're almost not the same species.<br />
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Been around? Moi? What are you suggesting, Ms. Fugit? Well, I just finished Chandle…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2010-07-27:537324:Comment:2438362010-07-27T09:32:55.686ZJoyce Ann Fugithttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/JoyceAnnFugit
Well, I just finished Chandler's classic essay "The Simple Art of Murder." It opens with<br />
"Fiction in any form has always intended to be realistic." (Is that an oxymoron or a paradox?)<br />
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Haven't read your novel; but, after reading these blog comments I think this woman vs. you and your fan base just have different views of "reality."<br />
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Boy! have you been around! (Were you in the Navy?)
Well, I just finished Chandler's classic essay "The Simple Art of Murder." It opens with<br />
"Fiction in any form has always intended to be realistic." (Is that an oxymoron or a paradox?)<br />
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Haven't read your novel; but, after reading these blog comments I think this woman vs. you and your fan base just have different views of "reality."<br />
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Boy! have you been around! (Were you in the Navy?) If I told you, Joyce, I'd be…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2010-07-27:537324:Comment:2438022010-07-27T00:57:33.611ZJon Loomishttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/JonLoomis
If I told you, Joyce, I'd be giving away a couple of punchlines. You'll have to read the book to find out.
If I told you, Joyce, I'd be giving away a couple of punchlines. You'll have to read the book to find out. How did George W. (not H.W.)…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2010-07-27:537324:Comment:2437982010-07-27T00:25:23.971ZJoyce Ann Fugithttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/JoyceAnnFugit
How did George W. (not H.W.) Bush enter the controversy?
How did George W. (not H.W.) Bush enter the controversy? Jim, some of the things missi…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2010-07-26:537324:Comment:2437892010-07-26T22:14:43.214ZChristine Duncanhttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/ChristineDuncan
Jim, some of the things missing in the critique of cozies are just the qualities you mentioned. A good cozy (like Joyce and Jim Lavene's Renaissance Fair mysteries) can be funny. The good ones are set with reality, IJ. Look at Sarah Graves Home Repair is Homicide series. Her heroine is a mom dealing with her son's substance abuse and her own not so wonderful childhood. They aren't meant to avoid reality or sugar coat it. They are just more suburbia than urban warfare.<br />
Which isn't to say cozy…
Jim, some of the things missing in the critique of cozies are just the qualities you mentioned. A good cozy (like Joyce and Jim Lavene's Renaissance Fair mysteries) can be funny. The good ones are set with reality, IJ. Look at Sarah Graves Home Repair is Homicide series. Her heroine is a mom dealing with her son's substance abuse and her own not so wonderful childhood. They aren't meant to avoid reality or sugar coat it. They are just more suburbia than urban warfare.<br />
Which isn't to say cozy readers can't enjoy some of the grittier stuff too. Your book sounds interesting Jon, but I don't need a freebie. I'll be looking you up. I've come around to liking th…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2010-07-26:537324:Comment:2437512010-07-26T19:56:36.789ZI. J. Parkerhttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/Ingpark
I've come around to liking the Mma Ramotswe series very well. That needs to be a cozy, because it celebrates a simpler, more perfect life. Though even McCall-Smith doesn't altogether avoid reality. He deals with the Aids epidemic. Yes, I like that series. Don't much care for the Dalhousie one though.
I've come around to liking the Mma Ramotswe series very well. That needs to be a cozy, because it celebrates a simpler, more perfect life. Though even McCall-Smith doesn't altogether avoid reality. He deals with the Aids epidemic. Yes, I like that series. Don't much care for the Dalhousie one though. No need to apologize--it's th…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2010-07-26:537324:Comment:2437482010-07-26T19:50:39.472ZJon Loomishttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/JonLoomis
No need to apologize--it's the internet! Seriously, though--you're right in that there is a risk of looking petty or thin-skinned when one does this sort of thing. And in fact I'm both of those things! Just not so much in this case.
No need to apologize--it's the internet! Seriously, though--you're right in that there is a risk of looking petty or thin-skinned when one does this sort of thing. And in fact I'm both of those things! Just not so much in this case. Yep. That and the fact that G…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2010-07-26:537324:Comment:2437452010-07-26T19:48:32.289ZJon Loomishttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/JonLoomis
Yep. That and the fact that GLBT people are treated as...people.
Yep. That and the fact that GLBT people are treated as...people.