Everything looks good from here... Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... 'This Land.' I think we should call it 'your grave!' Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! Ha ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die! Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!

Wash ,'Serenity'


Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."

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-t - Sep 04, 2025 10:08:57 am PDT #28424 of 28427
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

There are some pretty good Nero Wolfe pastiches/homages I have come across, although I am not super familiar with the originals. I don't know why whoever makes these decisions thinks continuations are necessary.


dcp - Sep 04, 2025 10:14:03 am PDT #28425 of 28427
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

I think the last Dick Francis novel I liked was To The Hilt.

I bounced off the next two. I think I tried one of his son's novels, but bounced off that too. That was a long time ago.


-t - Sep 04, 2025 10:25:30 am PDT #28426 of 28427
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

That's helpful, thanks


-t - Sep 04, 2025 12:50:27 pm PDT #28427 of 28427
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Trying to remember what Nero Wolfe ish things I am thinking of, because there was something quite recent. There are the short stories that have been running in Ellery Queen for a while where the Archie character is an AI that inhabits a tie pin. I like those but I think they are transitioning into being spy stories rather than mysteries. And there's the one Libby Cudmore that was not in Ellery Queen, what's it called, Alibi in Ice. But there was something else, I am almost certain, that somebody described as Sherlockian that someone else corrected to Nero Wolfe and I was like, oh, right, I get that now but I can't remember what it was. This is gonna bug me.


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