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Post by msdemos on Jan 21, 2019 16:45:37 GMT
........from book to book over their career (whether in terms of the 'quality' of the books they've released, the types of stories they've elected to write about, or simply, whomever the term 'most unpredictable' immediately makes you think of, for whatever reason) ??  SAVE FERRIS |
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Post by Nalkarj on Jan 21, 2019 18:13:06 GMT
I don’t know about “most,” but Gladys Mitchell is pretty unpredictable. Her books range from bawdy comedy to spy thriller to medieval mystery play to Bradburyesque Bildungsroman to Jamesian ghost story to Greek tragedy—and all well-written, in the same series, and starring the same central character, the cackling, saurian Mrs. Beatrice Adela Lestrange Bradley, a sympathetic witch and murderess. Fantastic books—as critic Nick Fuller has written, “fairy tales for grown-ups.”
Not to be confused with the BBC TV adaptations, which despite unexpectedly good casting (Diana Rigg plays Mrs. B, and though she doesn’t look anything like the character she gets her personality down pat) had nothing to do with the books and turned them into routine whodunits.
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Post by Zos on Jan 22, 2019 16:20:03 GMT
Lee Child, you just never know what's going to happen with that Reacher fellow.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Jan 25, 2019 1:15:42 GMT
I know I'm in for at least one jaw drop when I read Alan Moore.
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Post by hi224 on Jan 25, 2019 5:47:48 GMT
not sure.
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Post by No_Socks_Here on Jan 26, 2019 16:24:16 GMT
Michael Crichton was extremely diverse when writing. He crossed a lot of genres in his stories...all of them super great!
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