On Feb 4, 10:00=A0pm, philosphe...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>
> >How do you like the Hambly series? =A0I read three of them, and decided
> >not to continue, though I enjoyed them pretty well. =A0One of my
> >problems with mysteries is that the series just go on and on.
>
> Well, I like them because I like that entire "the past is a different
> country" thing. =A0But if you aren't into that, then you are probably
> best off stopping when you did. =A0I wouldn't call them "mysteries", per
> se. =A0The dust jackets call them "novels of suspense", which seems more
> fitting. =A0And man do they make me happy to be living today! =A0Yes,
the
> books concentrate a lot on the difficulties of being a person of
> color, but the life of women back then left a lot to be desired, no
> matter what your color was.
>
> Rebecca
I like some of that (treating the past as a different country) and
that was one way I read The Threee Musketeers last year; I initially
read these that way also. I'm not that familiar with New Orleans
itself, and especially with the way that society dealt with people of
mixed race, which I found very interesting. I guess I didn't get
pulled into the actual stories well enough to feel that I should keep
reading the series.
I agree that they're more suspense or thrillers instead of mysteries.
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