Books & Authors - September 2006

I'm a huge fan of Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe series. I like them partly for the humor and partly for the fact that they are written in a style the precludes a lot of the garbage seen in many modern novels, Ie... incessant swearing, main characters who are utterly unlikable or disfunctional, grotesque and bizarre sexual kink related murders,etc.

I'm looking for some a couple detective series that are mostly clean in content, entertaining and not hard boiled. You know, more in the style of the traditional murder mystery.

I'll list a few I know and like and a few I don't to give people some idea of what I'm looking for.

I've enjoyed:
The various Dick Francis novels
Rex Stout novels
The Ellis Peters Brother Caedfael mysteries
Sherlock Holmes
Agatha Christie, not so much.

Disliked:
Mystery thrillers like Robin Cook
the A for Alibi, B for Burglery series
Anything with overly described grotesque serial murders.

Thanks in advance!

2006-09-07 06:08:54 · 17 answers · asked by Lendorien 2

2006-09-07 06:05:24 · 48 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-07 06:00:10 · 25 answers · asked by jenny 1

2006-09-07 05:58:33 · 23 answers · asked by DeeDee 2

I am currently reading the Woman's Murder Club series and I can't put them down- I need another page turner by James Patterson

2006-09-07 05:46:19 · 9 answers · asked by amandan0218 2

Her mother is Cuban poet Aleyda Cruz. She may live in Hialeah Florida. I'd like to see her published writings.

2006-09-07 05:41:58 · 2 answers · asked by chingasdaughter 2

2006-09-07 04:27:53 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

What if I hadn't read my summer book and had the book but no time to read it? What would I do?
Let's pretend the book was Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison.

2006-09-07 04:09:10 · 14 answers · asked by its just me!! 4

I haven't read any of them, but I was wondering, which book is best to start with? Do I need to start with A is for Alibi? I have read reviews and it seems like there are better books in the series.

2006-09-07 04:08:50 · 5 answers · asked by JW 2

2006-09-07 04:03:37 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

A lot of peope have told me reading makes you smart, but how so?

Smart can be defined in many ways, what way do they mean?

2006-09-07 03:51:50 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

is it a russian name

2006-09-07 03:23:46 · 2 answers · asked by buddy 1

I am reading The Sun Also Rises and Hemmingway writes that a woman's life work "lay in the pelouse, but she kept an eye on the people of the pesage." What is pelouse and what is pesage?

2006-09-07 03:22:10 · 4 answers · asked by byrdmn2 1

2006-09-07 03:11:08 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-07 02:49:21 · 9 answers · asked by Jess H 1

the illustrated 9/11 commision report by sid jacobson and ernie colon

2006-09-07 02:39:14 · 5 answers · asked by pete.hodson1@btinternet.com 2

main idea of the poem
line wise explanation
summary

2006-09-07 02:33:16 · 4 answers · asked by mandeep s 1

2006-09-07 02:31:58 · 16 answers · asked by jyoti 1

Is the part about the sticks the arabs use there true?
Isn't the story so gruesome? =)

2006-09-07 02:12:28 · 3 answers · asked by #15mwu 5

If it is possible to build a human embedded with plants, so she/he can taka advantage of sunlight by its photosynthesis. Need to eat is not too much anymore. She/he needs only water, CO2 and light.

And what should they do for living? Find jobs? They do not need money anymore.

2006-09-07 02:07:15 · 3 answers · asked by N/A 2

2006-09-07 02:06:50 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-07 01:55:17 · 7 answers · asked by N/A 2

Big Brother is watching you ... sends chills really ... how would a society get to that point, would you personally allow it to (ie go with the flow to avoid trouble) and what is the likelihood of a similar system taking over like that in our future?

2006-09-07 01:09:51 · 26 answers · asked by SuzieQ 2

majority of questions posed are either related to harry potter series, dan brown, sidney sheldon and anne rice.......dosent it make you wonder about the quality of books that are becoming beat sellers, and what happened to real, serious, meaningful reading?

2006-09-07 00:44:38 · 23 answers · asked by S 4

I've read the book, but I still can't seem to get the answer to this question. Can anyone give me any kind of clue as to where to look?

"In his first description of Carl Heine, Guterson imparts a fair amount of what is seems to be background information... We learn that Carl Heine is considered a "good man." How do these facts become crucial later on, as mechanisms of plot, as revelations of the dead man's character and as clues to San Piedro's collective mores?"

Like, what are "collective mores"? I'm so confused... maybe I'm stupid.

2006-09-07 00:37:57 · 2 answers · asked by browncoat_llama 2

2006-09-07 00:09:38 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-07 00:01:58 · 11 answers · asked by hellyes 1

It was written in 1987, I think by someone from the UN, but I'm not sure. It's about empires and their mistakes and how other people shouldn't make them. I think there were some predictions about the US. Thank you

2006-09-06 23:39:18 · 3 answers · asked by I love the cake 2

reasons :Harry has voldemorts power

he was almost chosen into slytherin

the order in which his parents were killed are reversed (hiddenly in 4th book when harry fights voldemort)

2006-09-06 23:03:41 · 4 answers · asked by I want to delete my answers account 3

I've been seriosuly bored lately. Anyone know any really good Harry Potter fanfiction stories around? I'm tired of reading, well, poorly written ones.

2006-09-06 22:57:50 · 3 answers · asked by kittycatluver05 1