I get hand-me-downs of that series, which BTW is a police
procedural and thus very suitable for discussion this month.
The only interesting character is Barbara Havers (SP?), and
the others--male and female--are nincompoops IMHO. Anyway,
you shouldn't judge a book by its movie.
But the more interesting part of your
comments is that cozies rule. DorothyL has been awash for
months with news of the cancellation of various cozy series,
and the rationale offered is that only thrillers are
best-sellers and there isn't a market for cozies.
Joy, who notes that cozies don't have semi-disrobed young men
holding vials of poison on the cover
Frederick Zackel <
fzackel@wcnet.org> commented:
> Part of the problem with writing about the opposite
sex is fantasizing
what
> you think the opposite sex is, when in truth you
haven't a clue in the
> world. I watched the most recent PBS Mystery series
featuring Elizabeth
> George's cozies, figuring watching one of her
stories on TV would spare me
> from reading an ARC of one of her books. Her main
character Thomas Lynley
> was such "a sensitive male," I puked. He was more
sensitive than any
woman
> in the story, especially the 18 yr old murderer who
used an axe to behead
> her father. (The only good part of the story. I
perked up for that.) A
> sensitive male is what you buy for a postmodern
woman who has everything.
> George has no idea what goes on inside a man's head,
but her audience can
> identify with her cloying nonsense because their
fantasy of what a
sensitive
> male is corresponds to her fantasy. So she's a big
name cozy writer. On
> the other hand I have four fingers and thumb. Ahhh,
what I really mean
is:
> how many hard-boiled male writers are only capable
of writing "Beautiful
> Girls in Underpants with Machine Guns," which is no
less a clueless
> manufactured fantasy. The diff between the cozies
& the hard-boiled
> fantasies is women buy books, so cozies rule. The
more cozies there are,
> the less reason men have to read. So men read less.
Which means more
> cozies get published. Which means --
>
> I'm such a sensitive male, my wife sent me to the
video store to rent Hard
> Eight. She saw it by accident on Bravo, then said
it's my kind of story.
I
> missed it when it came out. Never knew it existed.
Had a wonderful time
> with it. I tried checking the rara-avis archives to
see what the list has
> said in the past about it, but my Apple 2E isn't
awake yet.
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