tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3304705769796697820.post5108631154204449191..comments2013-02-11T20:01:58.555-08:00Comments on comments on life: Book Review: Whose Body?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3304705769796697820.post-61328179705503256222011-04-25T06:03:32.451-07:002011-04-25T06:03:32.451-07:00Gaudy Night - "starring" Harriet Vane ra...Gaudy Night - "starring" Harriet Vane rather than Lord Peter, is by far the best.<br /><br />I seem to recall that Miss Sayers also left her quotations from Dante untranslated...a problem for us undereducated folks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3304705769796697820.post-24709073245932689432011-04-25T00:40:42.390-07:002011-04-25T00:40:42.390-07:00Karen, it does. Tracking the development of the ch...Karen, it does. Tracking the development of the character (and of course Sayers' improving writing skills - she started pretty good, and to my mind ended superb) provides for a secondary layer of narrative which would probably have been missed by someone reading them as they came out.<br /><br />(The Jill Paton Walsh continuation volumes... well. They're all right as stories, but she gets lots of small stuff wrong, and to me it's a constant niggle.)Firedrakenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3304705769796697820.post-16312773404990706712011-04-24T14:50:39.376-07:002011-04-24T14:50:39.376-07:00I really need to reread the Wimsey books. I read ...I really need to reread the Wimsey books. I read "Busman's Honeymoon" -- the last published during Sayer's life -- first, and that when I was 12. I should re-read them in order and see if it makes a difference.Karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10022407892012415037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3304705769796697820.post-72978267327289777042011-04-23T22:27:43.083-07:002011-04-23T22:27:43.083-07:00I love the Wimsey novels and stories, but Sayers&#...I love the Wimsey novels and stories, but Sayers' assumption that all of her readers understand French fluently can sometimes annoy me greatly. One of the short stories ("The Article in Question") revolved entirely around the reader's ability to spot a single minor flaw in several paragraphs of spoken French.Redwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10532917611648185870noreply@blogger.com