Posts by Lilith __
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Hard News: Art with a job to do, in reply to Joe Wylie,
I’m sure people will be flying laser kiwi, too.
Ah why not.
That's better! At least laser kiwi knows it's silly.
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I'm sure people will be flying laser kiwi, too.
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Many people believe the silver fern on black already represents New Zealand. No reason why red peak can’t be an alternative. Personally I have tried to like it (and I voted for it) but there were much better designs submitted, I think, including the charming one above.
I’ll be voting to retain the current flag because I want to protest the total lack of designer-input and the pretend public-consultation, not because I have a particular attachment to it.
To those who say, “Well that’s democracy, you end up with something charmless and insipid” – I’d like them to explain how the process was democratic. Merely getting to vote doesn’t make democracy.
And John Key should not be stating his flag preference all the time. He gets to vote, same as the rest of us, apart from that he should STFU. -
Up Front: Reading Murder Books, in reply to Emma Hart,
A Study in Emerald, which is collected in his Fragile Things.
It’s also a board game I really, really want.
Wow! Pity one has to pay so much to get one's tentacles on it.
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Arrrrgh! So many books I now need to read. Thanks everybody!
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Up Front: Reading Murder Books, in reply to Biobbs,
my absolute fav detective of all time is Lauren Henderson’s hilarious Sam Jones . Sam is a Camden girl – hedonistic, foul-mouthed and witty, and when not detecting or doing her day job as a sculptor, spends her time clubbing in black leather and rubber (one of the books is even called Black Rubber Dress). Lauren also has a newer YA detective series which I’ve not read, but has really good reviews on Goodreads and Amazon.
Thanks B, have added her to my list!
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Another vote for the wonderfulness of Raymond Chandler. His books are tiny masterpieces of their kind. As you say Emma, his language is both sassy and original. And the deeply seedy atmosphere carries from book to book – if the pages of your copy aren’t tatty, and the cover sticky, it hardly matters.
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Up Front: Reading Murder Books, in reply to kiwicmc,
Kate Atkinson’s Jackson Brodie series – Case Histories is the first one and then there’s another three to knock off after that.
Yes yes yes. Although the story is legitimately horrifying, the characters are engaging, the plotting deft, and the dialogue hilarious. My favourite of the series is the second, One Good Turn, which is not only screamingly funny, but makes me go “Ahhh!” at Atkinson’s cleverness.
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I think I've mentioned this before but I was very struck with Josephine Tey's Daughter of Time, which is the story of a detective who examines a historical mystery while stuck in hospital: did Richard III kill the Princes in the Tower?
Wikipedia informs me that it was "voted greatest mystery novel of all time by the Crime Writers' Association in 1990". There's been doubt cast on the soundness of some of her evidence, but it's a thrilling read.I read one of her other detective stories, which was also excellent, and I'd read more if I could get a hold of them.
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My favourite re-imagining of Sherlock is Neil Gaiman’s Lovecraftian short-story A Study in Emerald, which is collected in his Fragile Things.
On looking it up just now, I see that it’s also in an anthology of Sherlock/Cthulhu mashup called Shadows Over Baker St. Well.
