[LMB] Ekaterin's Book tour

[Peter Granzeau]

At 08:38 PM 3/31/2008, Tzivia Adler wrote:
>> P. S.  If anyone wants to speculate about mysteries set during
>> Barrayar's Time of Isolation, feel free.  Would they be like Maria V.
>> Snyder's _Poison Study_, Ellis Peters' Brother Cadfael, Peter
>> Tremayne's mysteries, Sharan Newman's Catherine LeVendeur?  Is there
>> a Barrayaran Harry Turtledove out there, & have we met him [or her, or it] 
>> yet?
>>
>there has to be a peter whimsey type, or a bertie wooster.  the two 
>extremes - the upper class is a bunch of useless fops, its the valet or 
>butler who figures things out.  or, the useless fop is really clever, if 
>only he could apply himself.

I'm sometimes a whimsical Peter, but not Peter Wimsey.  Lord Peter Wimsey was not a useless fop, anyway; he was in fact the one who did most of the figuring out, and Bunter just did some of the leg work for him.

Bertie Wooster, however, was useless enough for two.  His only redeeming quality was that he could recognize that Jeeves was worth his weight in gold.


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Regards, Pete
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