Mundanity, fiction, & conversation

[firecat]

Lousy morning and afternoon full of paperwork and cleaning. Began getting better in late afternoon when I had a chance to relax for a bit and continue re-reading The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin.

In the car on the way to SF finished listening to A Family Affair by Rex Stout, on tape. This line goes into my quote file:

Confound it, quit scorning my diction. -- Nero Wolfe (Rex Stout)

Evening with my sweetie Maggie (aka kyubi -- check out her great interest list): dinner at Godzilla Rain Tree, hanging over the retaining wall at Ocean Beach, and drinking sweet hot things at Simple Pleasures Cafe. Much conversation.

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[firecat]

How many Nero Wolfe books are there?

The ones I've listened to are read by Michael Prichard and are from Books on Tape.

[lcohen]

i just did a quick count and came up with 35 novels, some of which have a short story included, and 12 books of short stories. of those 12, 11 have three short stories and one has four, but one of the books with three stories is somewhat recycled material--a rewrite of a book that had a different detective as an NW/AG book (i forget which was the original version, but it was first published as a book with the other detective, tecumseh fox), an expanded version of another short story, and an earlier version of a third story. the book with recycled material is death times three, and was published after stout's death. i hate, loath, despise, and otherwise abhor the books that were written by someone else (robert goldsborough--i just looked it up) using the NW/AG characters. other than that, i have no strong opinions ;-) .

[firecat]

Thanks!