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May. 17th, 2014 08:31 pmDay 13 – Your favorite writer
2010 Answer: Agatha Christie, Amanda Quick, Peter David
I still can't pick just one.
So, there are two authors who could probably mostly fill one of my bookshelves by themselves. Their books were among the first to be downloaded onto Kindle.
Agatha Christie is still my favorite, although this time she is joined by Georgette Heyer. The two of them have given me many, many happy hours of reading.
Christie is all about the plots. How will it get pulled off this time? I enjoy the characters, but many of them are sketched rather than drawn and finely detailed, despite the fact that Christie's plots hinge on people and how they act. I love the novels. I love the short stories. I love the plays. I've always been a Poirot fangirl - Murder on the Orient Express was my first Christie - but I've come to appreciate "Aunt Jane" and all the other detectives who populate the books, even if they don't intend to be detectives. (Emily Trefusis of The Sittaford Mystery comes to mind.) The romantic elements often seem quick and spare, but fit the sentiments of the times. She also does a good job of sketching in social details.
Heyer is all about the characters. The characters make the story, whether you love them or hate them. The stories live and breathe. Heyer made the Regency what it is, and everything else is an imitation - many of them enjoyable, but they lack what makes a Heyer story live and breathe. Her mysteries are good as well, and her other historicals. She inspired a lot of writers (including a close second place Lois McMaster Bujold, who acknowledges her in the intro to A Civil Campaign, and who has at least one Heyer-inspired moment - Miles' ride in the end of Barrayar marks him very clearly as a possible Darracott descendant) as well she should have.
Both are well worth reading. In fact, both could probably have their own 30 day meme.
DV
( The Rest of the Meme )2010 Answer: Agatha Christie, Amanda Quick, Peter David
I still can't pick just one.
So, there are two authors who could probably mostly fill one of my bookshelves by themselves. Their books were among the first to be downloaded onto Kindle.
Agatha Christie is still my favorite, although this time she is joined by Georgette Heyer. The two of them have given me many, many happy hours of reading.
Christie is all about the plots. How will it get pulled off this time? I enjoy the characters, but many of them are sketched rather than drawn and finely detailed, despite the fact that Christie's plots hinge on people and how they act. I love the novels. I love the short stories. I love the plays. I've always been a Poirot fangirl - Murder on the Orient Express was my first Christie - but I've come to appreciate "Aunt Jane" and all the other detectives who populate the books, even if they don't intend to be detectives. (Emily Trefusis of The Sittaford Mystery comes to mind.) The romantic elements often seem quick and spare, but fit the sentiments of the times. She also does a good job of sketching in social details.
Heyer is all about the characters. The characters make the story, whether you love them or hate them. The stories live and breathe. Heyer made the Regency what it is, and everything else is an imitation - many of them enjoyable, but they lack what makes a Heyer story live and breathe. Her mysteries are good as well, and her other historicals. She inspired a lot of writers (including a close second place Lois McMaster Bujold, who acknowledges her in the intro to A Civil Campaign, and who has at least one Heyer-inspired moment - Miles' ride in the end of Barrayar marks him very clearly as a possible Darracott descendant) as well she should have.
Both are well worth reading. In fact, both could probably have their own 30 day meme.
DV
