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[hwango]

Most of the time, I don't pay any particular attention to what my mom is reading, because we don't usually read the same kinds of books - I'm mostly fantasy and she's mostly mystery. Today, however, I happened to notice that she was reading something that was a large print edition, and to make conversation I asked if she'd picked that up so she could read it without her reading glasses. She explained that it was actually the only edition of the book that the library had on the shelf, and that she was reading it in the first place because all three of her friends that she meets with from time to time have read it, and she felt somewhat left out of the conversation about it. She explained that they don't read the same sorts of books that she does; they read novels. I responded to this by saying "You read books in which people are ghoulishly murdered, whereas no one dies in novels...or if they do, it's not the focus of the story?" She replied to say "Exactly. They're much more emotional, and all about feelings." The edge of distain she put on this word was hilarious. Apparently there's another book that follows this one by the same author, which she plans to read if the first one isn't so bad. One of her friends didn't like it as much as the first, but we speculated that maybe that will mean my mom likes it better. "Perhaps they didn't like it because someone was ghoulishly murdered in it."

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[hwango.livejournal.com]

I don't think she's actively seeking ghoulish murders, I just like to tease her about it. On the one hand she's into cute fluffy things and other cheerful stuff, but then nearly everything she watches on TV revolves around people investigating bizarre murders, and most of the books she reads are murder mysteries.

[(Anonymous)]

His books are mystery first gore second. They're pretty well detailed too. The Club Dumas had the movie "The 9th Gate" based on it. A lot of the book's plot revolves around Alexander Dumas and the Three Musketeers but that was completely cut from the movie.