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Sherlock Holmes and the Return of the Mystery

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SeaBassTian
11/08/08

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I used to read Agatha Christie books with a passion back in my youth. I don't think I have read a mystery novel in a long time. But I certainly see the appeal of this genre. We all like to feel like we are a clever know-it-all.
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TedSez
11/08/08

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"House" is the Sherlock Holmesiest character on TV right now.

Plus, he's open about being the utter a-hole we always suspected Holmes probably would be, too.
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Fishnets and Cigarettes
11/08/08

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Ah, Dexter....the best show on TV since Mad Men
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PrincessKashmir
11/08/08

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I've always thought murder mysteries get a bad rap. I can think of no more relaxing evening than wearing some comfy pajamas with a cup of tea and the latest Jonathan Kellerman, Elizabeth George or P.D. James. And yes, maybe a No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency book, but those are more simple studies of character than mysteries, per se.

I consider myself fairly clever, but I never, ever figure out "the bad guy" before the protagonist does. BookishLookish has it right.
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BookishLookish
11/08/08

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I am starting to love the particular way Robert Downey Jr.'s face is starting to fall apart.
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T.S._delegate
11/08/08

@BookishLookish: The eyes kind of reveal it all, huh?
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BookishLookish
11/08/08

@T.S._delegate: Will you just look at them? He always had the intense,expressive eyes, but now? And look at the pre-craggy thing going on with his cheeks and brow. Ah, poetry, I tell you.
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T.S._delegate
11/08/08

@BookishLookish: True. The empty expression, the remnants of a grimace.... I'm beginning to think he gave up his soul with the drugs.

Strangely his acting abilities remain intact. Also, my love for him.
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pureblarney
11/08/08

@BookishLookish: Whatevs. The Robert Downey you call Humpty-Dumpty is still a total babe.
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BookishLookish
11/08/08

@pureblarney: Don't put words in my mouth, blarney. Why do you think hotness and falling apartness are mutually exclusive?
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pureblarney
11/08/08

@BookishLookish: That I don't consider the act of epidermal decomposition inherently sexy?
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BookishLookish
11/08/08

@pureblarney: Well, it's actually subepidermal, but stick around long enough and you might.
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BookishLookish
11/08/08

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We are living in a smarmy, info-overacces, I-know-everything time and mysteries remind us that we don't know everything. We have to wait and see how it all goes down.
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Meg
11/08/08

@BookishLookish: Normally, I peek ahead to see if what I think is going to happen, happens, because most of the time, I just can not read fast enough to satisfy my curiosity. But if the book is truly spectacular, I force myself not to look ahead, and I am usually rewarded. I love a good mystery.
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nickcarroway
11/08/08

@BookishLookish: I think you are right about this, Meg. For some time we have been living in an aggressively anti-intellectual environment, believing, or at least hoping, that sheer force of will and eruptions of brute strength will solve all of our problems. They don't. They don't in tragic proportions. I hope we are moving into a minor renaissance in which rational thought, civil discourse, and good faith dissent will be valued. After all, that's why I hang out at gawker...
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nickcarroway
11/08/08

@nickcarroway: oops. so much for intellect. That was meant for BookishLookish, not Meg. Sorry.
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Aaron Altman
11/08/08

@BookishLookish: I'm listening - yes, listening, sorry - to an audiobook by Brad Meltzer, The Millionaires, part of which takes place in a super-secret private bank in Manhattan, hidden behind nondescript doors in a building on Park Avenue. And I think I found it - the bank he based his fictional bank on! I wanna bust in, and see where it all went down: the illicit transactions! The killing of the bank's security director! The desk where our main character toils, unhappily!

And that's my quasi-literary aside for the day. :-)
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BookishLookish
11/08/08

@nickcarroway: Hey, Meg is no slouch on the "being right" front. But thanks. And let's hope that your call for a minor renaissance will he heeded. Your lips to God's ears, as my grandmother used to say.
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BookishLookish
11/08/08

@Aaron Altman: Audio books are all good, AA. Everyone loves to be read to.
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number six
11/08/08

@BookishLookish:

Oh, shit, dude -- you're totally right. I never realised that before.
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BookishLookish
11/08/08

@number six: I am a lady, not a dude, and to what do you refer?
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Weegee's bored
11/08/08

@nickcarroway: Total agreement. For years if not decades anything intellectual has been doomed in this country, equated with impotence (in the general sense). I hope that rational thought is a possibility.
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number six
11/08/08

@BookishLookish:

My apologies -- I meant to agree that people like being read to. No offence meant.
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Meg
11/08/08

@BookishLookish: Thanks! That's so sweet.

@Aaron Altman: My GPS reads to me about super-secret places that I think I've found, only I can't quite get there.
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BookishLookish
11/08/08

@number six: Gotcha, and none taken.
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Weegee's bored
11/08/08

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The trick is to have a really good backstory. If you aren't really into the characters, the mystery plot, nominally the reason that people buy the book, won't keep you coming back. The characters should grow from book to book in a series. I'm a CSI junkie, but mainly because Grissom reminds me of some things in myself and I have a crush on Sarah.
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Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith
11/08/08

@Weegee's bored: True! All Horatio Crane has is his Sunglasses On, Hand On Hips Pose.

New Zealand is a wee bit behind with CSI, and since Warwick is gone, I've been too sad to try and catch up. I don't even know if the new season has started yet (has it?).
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