OH GOD I LOVE THIS BOOK. I tend to put little strips of torn paper in as bookmarks for pages with something particularly interesting or excellent, and my copy of this book is just a forest of little waving flags!
However, I'm in the middle of a giant foofaraw involving moving a relative overseas, and will be for the next couple days, so I'll have to reply a little later. Luckily I have a three-day weekend coming up!
So have no fear I won't comment. Because OH I HAVE A FEW THINGS TO SAY. Even if someone beats me to them, I will still come and say them, because I neeeeeed to shaaaaare.
However, I can at least drop in this little squee before I go. I kick my feet in glee at the bit where Mrs. Rackham says to Wolfe, "You're big and handsome and successful", and the NEXT DAY Archie makes a giant dealio about being absorbed in the dictionary, and when Wolfe is finally like "Whatcha doin" Archie says he was looking up "handsome" and by gum it DOES apply to Wolfe because it can also mean "moderately large".
That is a good long time to stew over Mrs. Rackham calling Wolfe handsome, and thinking up a way to try to change it. And he is so much looking forward to that ploy poking Wolfe into a nice bit of banter, but Wolfe is too distracted by the prospect of the eventual sausages to play with Archie right now. Heh. OH ARCHIE.
Okay, more later for sure!
Oh-- P.S.-- maybe at some point someone would like to discuss Parhelion's In the Best Families slash story, "Hunger", with me? If you're cool with a slash version of ITBF, I recommend it!:
Hunger (10210 words) by Parhelion Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Nero Wolfe - Stout Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Archie Goodwin/Nero Wolfe Characters: Archie Goodwin, Nero Wolfe, Saul Panzer, Arnold Zeck Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon, noir, Blackmail, Criminals Made Them Do It, Undercover Summary:
I had an argument with another fan who claimed Archie's report of how Wolfe defeated his nemesis Zeck was ridiculous. I lost. This is one suggestion of how else it might have happened.
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Date: 2015-09-02 04:50 pm (UTC)However, I'm in the middle of a giant foofaraw involving moving a relative overseas, and will be for the next couple days, so I'll have to reply a little later. Luckily I have a three-day weekend coming up!
So have no fear I won't comment. Because OH I HAVE A FEW THINGS TO SAY. Even if someone beats me to them, I will still come and say them, because I neeeeeed to shaaaaare.
However, I can at least drop in this little squee before I go. I kick my feet in glee at the bit where Mrs. Rackham says to Wolfe, "You're big and handsome and successful", and the NEXT DAY Archie makes a giant dealio about being absorbed in the dictionary, and when Wolfe is finally like "Whatcha doin" Archie says he was looking up "handsome" and by gum it DOES apply to Wolfe because it can also mean "moderately large".
That is a good long time to stew over Mrs. Rackham calling Wolfe handsome, and thinking up a way to try to change it. And he is so much looking forward to that ploy poking Wolfe into a nice bit of banter, but Wolfe is too distracted by the prospect of the eventual sausages to play with Archie right now. Heh. OH ARCHIE.
Okay, more later for sure!
Oh-- P.S.-- maybe at some point someone would like to discuss Parhelion's In the Best Families slash story, "Hunger", with me? If you're cool with a slash version of ITBF, I recommend it!:
Hunger (10210 words) by Parhelion
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Nero Wolfe - Stout
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Archie Goodwin/Nero Wolfe
Characters: Archie Goodwin, Nero Wolfe, Saul Panzer, Arnold Zeck
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon, noir, Blackmail, Criminals Made Them Do It, Undercover
Summary:
I had an argument with another fan who claimed Archie's report of how Wolfe defeated his nemesis Zeck was ridiculous. I lost. This is one suggestion of how else it might have happened.