Re: Georgette Heyer

JayJay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

: I know there are a lot of critics out there that say they are too light
: for serious readers to even think about, I am a serious reader and 
: still go back to them periodically.

Too light!  With all that history and period detail (not to mention
slang), some of them can be pretty dense--but still marvellously written.  
I didn't like BATH TANGLE, nor one of the contemporary mysteries I tried,
but I've really liked everything else by her that I've read.  DEVIL'S CUB
is probably my favourite, and I'm on the lookout for AN INFAMOUS ARMY.

Some people in rec.arts.sf.written were saying that Heyer is popular with
SF readers, which is how I first came to read her.  Reading her Regency 
books, for example, is a bit like going to another world, with its own 
language and customs and behaviour.  There was some discussion here the 
other day about Neal Stephenson, the SF writer whose new book QUICKSILVER 
is historical fiction, and I'm tying the two together by reading ROYAL 
ESCAPE, Heyer's book about Charles II, who is a character is QuICKSILVER.


Bill

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