[PJ-Comix]

Gonna hit the sack now. Perhaps tomorrow I'll start a thread on other FICTION genres. Perhaps Best Detective Stories. I like Mickey Spillane and Raymond Chandler but too tired to go into the details now. However, what is wrong with reading BOTH Detective (or SF or Fantasy) AND literary novels? Methinks that too many folks avoid the latter like the plague but they really don't know what they are missing.

[HairOfTheDog]

hehehe - People don't fit into the right boxes you think they will.

I am not a SF fan in particular... I enjoy LoTR, it is the one book that I will re-read over and over again my entire life. But I have read few others in the genre. I don't seek them out over others. My interest vary widely... For a hoot, I love Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy... It is kindof a sober version of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

I like John Grisham, but he probably doesn't fit your definition of detective stories. He is on the other shelf called legal thrillers... I would hate to think we can't talk about books because they aren't on the right shelf... I don't even know what shelf to put Tom Clancy on...