[ SECRET POST #3825 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3825 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Fandoms/works that FS recced you that you DIDN'T like?

[(Anonymous)]

I'll be honest - I had high hopes for Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Wimsey series, but it wasn't my thing especially once Harriet Vane enters the series. He's just so... weirdly and frankly rather creepily obsessed with a woman he barely knows and who made it clear she's not interested but somehow it works out in the end for him? Nah.

Ironically, I liked "Gaudy Night" with Harriet as the protagonist and Wimsey as side character better.

Re: Fandoms/works that FS recced you that you DIDN'T like?

[rosehiptea]

Gaudy Night was a good book. I liked some of the others but "somehow it works out in the end for him" (because he's so awesome) is kind of how they all go and it got boring for me after a while.

Re: Fandoms/works that FS recced you that you DIDN'T like?

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, that's the part I didn't enjoy as much. It doesn't seem like there are as many interesting obstacles for Wimsey either in detective work or his love life. He's the hero of course, and will win in the end. But I was a bit bored by the journey.

Re: Fandoms/works that FS recced you that you DIDN'T like?

[(Anonymous)]

I think it works for me in large part because I don't think she does say she's not interested in him. I think she says she's interested in him but doesn't want to get married. But it's a thin line to walk and I totally get not digging it.

Re: Fandoms/works that FS recced you that you DIDN'T like?

[(Anonymous)]

To me it seemed like more than just a disinclination to marry, particularly at first. She doesn't even KNOW Wimsey, aside from hearing about his exploits as a detective. Wimsey proposes marriage the first time he meets her in person, when she's in prison. At the end of "Strong Poison", he continues to express his intent to marry her, even though she hasn't even consented to a romantic relationship of any kind with him, which... yikes.

Obviously she changes her mind eventually, but it didn't feel at all like a natural, healthy progression of a relationship. It felt like a "this works out because he's the hero of the series" wrap-up.

Re: Fandoms/works that FS recced you that you DIDN'T like?

[(Anonymous)]

Eh. It doesn't read that way to me, but fair enough, I can get how you'd feel that way.

Re: Fandoms/works that FS recced you that you DIDN'T like?

[(Anonymous)]

I still haven't made it through the first book, although I intend to eventually. She was always advertised to me as much more intellectual than Agatha Christie for example and a much better writer than the usual crime authors. So far I don't see it.

Re: Fandoms/works that FS recced you that you DIDN'T like?

[(Anonymous)]

The first book is a little lighter and less well done than the rest, but it also just might not be your thing.

Re: Fandoms/works that FS recced you that you DIDN'T like?

[(Anonymous)]

Same here. I'm not a huge Agatha Christie fan, so I was hoping for plots more substantial than that... I don't think the Wimsey series quite fit that description for me.