Sayers never wrote the easy loves. I reckon because she never had any of her own. Which is just as well, because most of us don't, and Peter and Harriet are much more interesting than almost any other couple in the literature of the time, IMO.
Right there with you. And they stay interesting, which I find fascinating. So much of romance (or other genre fiction) is goal oriented, which I find... less than satisfying at times. I mean, even as they experience one stage -- and the culminations of books are always satisfying -- they move on to the next. Married or not. It's not neat, and they don't stagnate. I love the part in Busman's Honeymoon (and I think it was an intriguing change from/addition to the play version) where there's all the angst about sending the prisoner to the gallows. And Bunter tells us that there always is. Whoever heard of a detective story going there???
Also, ghosts! They have ghosts.
The other thing I love about Sayers is that she seems really just; the world of the novels is not always approving of Peter, or Harriet, or whatever. That makes the characters even more lovable to me somehow.
Feel free to "hey look at this next" -- especially when you come bearing such goodies. Want, want, want.
Is is the rest of the Inklings? Charles Williams and all them? Now there's a group I'd like to have a few drinks with. Imagine those being your colleagues at the office water cooler or whatever.
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Date: 2009-02-21 06:10 am (UTC)Right there with you. And they stay interesting, which I find fascinating. So much of romance (or other genre fiction) is goal oriented, which I find... less than satisfying at times. I mean, even as they experience one stage -- and the culminations of books are always satisfying -- they move on to the next. Married or not. It's not neat, and they don't stagnate. I love the part in Busman's Honeymoon (and I think it was an intriguing change from/addition to the play version) where there's all the angst about sending the prisoner to the gallows. And Bunter tells us that there always is. Whoever heard of a detective story going there???
Also, ghosts! They have ghosts.
The other thing I love about Sayers is that she seems really just; the world of the novels is not always approving of Peter, or Harriet, or whatever. That makes the characters even more lovable to me somehow.
Feel free to "hey look at this next" -- especially when you come bearing such goodies. Want, want, want.
Is is the rest of the Inklings? Charles Williams and all them? Now there's a group I'd like to have a few drinks with. Imagine those being your colleagues at the office water cooler or whatever.