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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Nov 12, 2019 19:10:33 GMT
Is there something special to using JSTOR?
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Nov 11, 2019 18:41:12 GMT
Plus, it's not actually a ghost story. With one or two exceptions, none of Aickman's own stories are either. I think.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Nov 9, 2019 15:05:01 GMT
Is Brennan too schlocky for Joshi? Brennan doesn't sound at all "literary" from the descriptions, though the stories are clearly effective and pack a strong punch--not qualities prized in today's academia. If you've ever read any academic articles from the last 30 years, you'll know that "punch" is absolutely the last thing they aim for. Joshi is not an academic. He is an H P Lovecraft "fanboy."
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Nov 5, 2019 20:11:39 GMT
I am reporting you! Moderators!
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Nov 1, 2019 15:39:18 GMT
Indeed, but it's demonstrable all the same. I agree. I always find Joshi's criticism to be worthwhile even when I don't agree with him. Sycophant!
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Oct 31, 2019 19:01:23 GMT
No one, though, can doubt the depths of his knowledge. I can!
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Oct 31, 2019 16:21:12 GMT
Was Victorian culture really that "enfeebled"? I think not. When reading Joshi, it is instructive to keep the following simple rule in mind: Joshi is always wrong about everything.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Oct 28, 2019 20:51:31 GMT
Trailer for upcoming BBC production of Dracula - This is going to be problematic. After having watched him on THE AFFAIR, even just thinking about Claes Bang has me start laughing.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Oct 24, 2019 13:40:57 GMT
In which Christie story does this happen? I am sure it does, but I cannot recollect any. From the top of my head:
The classic is After the Funeral, one of the Poirot's, where the murderer Miss Gilchrist disguises herself as the victim Cora Lansquenet at a funeral and a reading of a will, only to appear later as herself in the bossom of the family and nobody recognizes her. (In this novel it even makes sense to a point, as no family member had seen Cora for years.) Next is Lord Edgeware dies where the murderer sends an actress impersonating her to a party to get an alibi while she is killing her husband.
Then there is Murder in Mesopotamia, another Poirot, where the victim marries a man - her murderer - without recognizing him as the man she already had married 15 years ago before he seemingly died on the way to the prison because he was a spy. Even allowing that the young couple didn't have much time together before he got busted this is a bit reaching, I think. I can't remember though if the villain here wore a disguise beside just being older. (Which alone would make this even more ridiculous.)
In Dead Man's Folly from 1956 one of the murderers also disguises herself as a Italian tourist to get an alibi, and not even her housekeeper recognizes her. I think in Murder on the Orient Express there also was a disguise or at least an identity switch, but it is ages that I read the novel and the movie-versions have left such a strong impression that this may be wrong. All the movies rewrite the ending and the dynamics somewhat. (Or strongly as in the recent godawful Branagh movie.) In the novel it is basically a long monologue by Poirot while the suspects are listening silent.
I seem to remember that there was this also in some of the Poirot short-stories, but can't say for sure.
The novels are all Poirots of which I am a fan and of which I read quite a few of the novels while watching most of the adaptions. I guess in the rest of her novels with Ms Marple this idea is also featured. It would surprise me if she didn't use it here.
Sorry, I think I meant specifically men disguising themselves as women. But thanks for the extensive list; it brings back many happy memories. To me, the outrageousness of the basic premise of MURDER IN MESOPOTAMIA is one of the novel's strengths.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Oct 23, 2019 10:31:21 GMT
To be specific {Spoiler}it's a man masquerading as a woman masquerading as a ghost who is really incompetent at murdering young actresses. Ah, the Agatha Christie school of masquerading. (Which I always wonder if people back then really thought this believable.) Only her villains are more competent. In which Christie story does this happen? I am sure it does, but I cannot recollect any.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Oct 18, 2019 15:14:59 GMT
Since the accident.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Oct 18, 2019 15:10:24 GMT
That is odd. I only show up on film. Albeit just vaguely.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Oct 12, 2019 18:00:10 GMT
I thought this was a joke I don't believe it. Gardner F Fox was a very important comics writer.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Oct 12, 2019 14:38:21 GMT
I've seen several people here mention Mr Fox but have to confess I know nothing of him or his oeuvre. Happily for you, there is a brand new biography just out.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Oct 11, 2019 16:06:47 GMT
I guess at some point maybe we'll hear about a Tomb of Dracula film with a bloated budget starring Benedict Cumberbatch You seem to forget that Cumberbatch is already Dr Strange. No, it will have to be Tom Selleck.
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