The Syndicate

ColinIsCool wrote: ↑Sat Nov 03, 2018 5:17 pm My reading has slowed to a crawl lately, but I am still chugging along. Senior year I took a seminar on Dante but we didn’t cover the third part of the Divine Comedy, Paradisio, so I’ve been rereading the whole work. Inferno is great and very heavy metal. I’m about halfway through Purgatorio now and it’s enjoyable too. You dig more into the meat of Dante’s moral philosophy in that one, I feel, and it’s interesting if nothing else. Get a good edition that has footnotes, though, because otherwise you’ll be lost.

ColinIsCool wrote: ↑Wed Aug 22, 2018 9:07 am Yeah, my favorite English professor taught it every few semesters and it was a blast. We did Poe, Conan Doyle, Christie, Raymond Chandler, Sue Grafton (thought that one wasn’t that good), Michael Chabon’s old Holmes book, maybe a few other things. I didn’t read a lot of mysteries before that class but I love them now.

ColinIsCool wrote: ↑Wed Aug 22, 2018 8:30 am That’s awesome! I read With No One as Witness in a class on mystery fiction in college, which has some, uhh ... big plot developments ... but I’m going back from the very beginning now.

ColinIsCool wrote: ↑Tue Aug 21, 2018 11:36 am I finished Well-Schooled in Murder by Elizabeth George. It’s no. 3 in a detective series I started reading for coursework in college, about a posh Scotland Yard inspector named Lynley who comes from wealth and privilege and his partner, working-class Sgt. Barbara Havers. I really like George’s mysteries because she populates them with very full, fleshed-out characters, and she always has good twists. Makes it hard to predict who the killer is, but this time I had the suspect in my POE. This one’s about a murder at a prep school and it’s very dark — all of her mysteries go to some pretty disturbing places — but it hits the spot. There’s like 18 of these books and some plots that continue through all of them, but you can pick up any in the series and be fine.