[LMB] QOTD #7: Emotional genre, re: ACC dedication (Sat. Mar. 1st)

[Louann Miller]

Elvi Dalgaard wrote:
> Perhaps there are a lot of people who have now read and enjoyed 
> Heyer, Sayers, Austen and Bronte who would otherwise never have picked 
> them up? Are there any here now?
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> Elvi
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I read Sayers in my teens as fallout from my Sherlock Holmes fandom. I 
picked up on Phillip Jose Farmer's Unified Fan Theory (explaining how 
all his favorite characters were really related*) which definitely made 
Lord Peter a relative of Holmes. The Peter-and-Harriet novels are my 
favorite Sayers.** The two modern sequels don't _quite_ capture the tone 
of the original characters, but where they don't talk like Peter and 
Harriet they definitely talk like Miles and Ekaterin to my ears so 
that's fine too.

Louann

* http://www.pjfarmer.com/woldnewton/Pulp.htm

** I don't remember; was "how Peter and Harriet's courtship like Miles 
and Ekaterin's" talked to death when ACC first came out?

LQM