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30 Day Book Meme (2014 version) - Day 22
Jun. 1st, 2014 08:50 pmThere have been either late nights or technical difficulties the last few days, so I am slightly behind.
Day 22 – Favorite book you own
2010 Answer: Nancy Drew Applewood Press reissues
So, it's story time.
Back in the late 1980s, my dad bought a desktop computer (a Tandy) and I was introduced to the world of computer games. One of them was called The Scoop. According to Wiki, it was released for DOS in 1989, but it was probably more like 1990-91 before I got it. It's based on a 1931 collaborative novel of the same name by the London Detection Club, featuring Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers, among others. I had been introduced to Christie, and would eventually find Sayers after I found Bujold, but I loved this computer game. There's lots of searching and eavesdropping on the NPCs so you can figure out who did it.
I wanted the book. Partly to see what the answer was, but partly because I wanted to read it. My first real stab at writing a fanfiction was based on this game. Yes, it was pretty Mary Sue. However, I could never FIND the book, and since I was 12 and Amazon hadn't been invented yet, I was out of luck. I had tried in libraries and such, and never came up with it.
Until Amazon, about three years ago. The one I have is a 1983 publication, but it's still in good shape. I read it and loved it. It was better than I expected, and worth all the searching.
DV
Day 22 – Favorite book you own
2010 Answer: Nancy Drew Applewood Press reissues
So, it's story time.
Back in the late 1980s, my dad bought a desktop computer (a Tandy) and I was introduced to the world of computer games. One of them was called The Scoop. According to Wiki, it was released for DOS in 1989, but it was probably more like 1990-91 before I got it. It's based on a 1931 collaborative novel of the same name by the London Detection Club, featuring Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers, among others. I had been introduced to Christie, and would eventually find Sayers after I found Bujold, but I loved this computer game. There's lots of searching and eavesdropping on the NPCs so you can figure out who did it.
I wanted the book. Partly to see what the answer was, but partly because I wanted to read it. My first real stab at writing a fanfiction was based on this game. Yes, it was pretty Mary Sue. However, I could never FIND the book, and since I was 12 and Amazon hadn't been invented yet, I was out of luck. I had tried in libraries and such, and never came up with it.
Until Amazon, about three years ago. The one I have is a 1983 publication, but it's still in good shape. I read it and loved it. It was better than I expected, and worth all the searching.
DV
