tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post111063832924204035..comments2024-03-28T18:40:05.789-04:00Comments on Writers Who Kill: Blueprint for Murder by Roger Bax: A Review by Warren BullJim Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15090252530437277145noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-25171922181512036362017-03-19T14:36:03.132-04:002017-03-19T14:36:03.132-04:00Interestingly, I have recently read whining statem...Interestingly, I have recently read whining statements from men who claim they are not respected in the mystery/crime fiction world. My own feeling is that, while we are making progress, the gender of the writer comes into play entirely too much, and we have to respect fiction from the past as a reflection of the time in which it was written, including attitudes towards various segments of our population.KM Rockwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03973749764907859829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-12044283730738508152017-03-17T15:33:30.968-04:002017-03-17T15:33:30.968-04:00Warren, it is true that most books of the past did...Warren, it is true that most books of the past didn't respect women, however if it was written by someone like Dorothy L. Sayers, who had Harriet Vane every bit as intelligent as Lord Peter Wimsey, she set readers on a different tract.In fact, if I didn't have such a pile of books still to be read, I think I'd go back and start reading all hers again since I have copies of every one of her books. And yes, even when I graduated from high school in 1956, my parents had only saved enough for one of their children to go to college so they paid for my younger brother's first year because they thought I'd just get married after a year of college. I never questioned it because that's the way things were then. However, it all worked out for the best because when I went to college years later in my early 40s, I loved it far more than the younger people sitting around me looking bored much of the time. The professors made more eye contact with me because they could see how in tune with them I was.<br />Gloria Aldenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13581719606924364447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-68026410298443395182017-03-17T14:36:32.994-04:002017-03-17T14:36:32.994-04:00I think my parents' generation in mass practic...I think my parents' generation in mass practiced obtuseness when it came to women's intelligence. Their upbringings were Victorian. I know men of that generation often looked at women of the 1960s as an entirely different species. One of them once pigeonholed me as a "career" woman because I didn't get married until I was 28. Of course, the look I gave him put him in an entirely different species.<br /><br />Grace is right, though. Old books have to be respected for telling the truth of the times no matter how wrong. It's history. It's educational. Entertainment? Not so much.E. B. Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16746747050278597888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-61072239691316585572017-03-17T10:23:22.178-04:002017-03-17T10:23:22.178-04:00It is hard reading a book written in a time when t...It is hard reading a book written in a time when the briefs were so different from those of today. I think we have to keep in mind that it was the time. That's why so many people get up in arms about books like "Huckleberry Finn" and others that were a reflection of the time. When reading them, we should just be thankful that we are more enlightened now and look at the rest of the story for what it is worth.Grace Toppinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10291304815273486038noreply@blogger.com