tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031063966272508587.post5478030185142382015..comments2024-03-27T06:07:20.345+01:00Comments on ボクの事件簿: 『DRINK ME』Ho-Linghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04673330638260132388noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031063966272508587.post-24369095500557958952011-06-11T08:22:19.350+02:002011-06-11T08:22:19.350+02:00@エリ/TomCat: I know it's an important work, but...@エリ/TomCat: I know it's an important work, but... but... I just never seem to find the right occassion to read it. Now I'm just hoping that someday, I'll have read enough <i>Alice</i> inspired books to be able to reconstruct the original story myself :P Ellery Queen gave me several poems, this the small door and background information on Carrol, <i>Kingdom Hearts</i> told me about bad level design... oh, wait.<br /><br />@mousoukyoku: Oh, thanks! No idea why I did that. With all the weird names in the book (seriously, 无多?), it <i>would</i> be a normal name I'd write wrong ^_~'Ho-Linghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04673330638260132388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031063966272508587.post-32762221453892650862011-06-11T01:52:08.677+02:002011-06-11T01:52:08.677+02:00Just one nit-picking first off: Kitayama, not Kita...Just one nit-picking first off: Kitayama, not Kitamura (since you wrote it throughout the whole entry).<br /><br />One of my neo-orthodox favorites. Loved the locked room and the fact that it's more likely to fall for Kitayamas trap the more you are into classical detective fiction and its specific staples and preconceptions.<br /><br />It's certainly true though that the characters are just chesspieces for this plot to work out (they do have their own roles, positions and meta-meanings though) and Kitayama continued this meta-comment in the series' next novel in a slightly different way (puppets); certainly fairly constructed again but still more reasonable as a fictional concept.mousoukyokuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00755066580829504834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031063966272508587.post-10057858418519340802011-06-10T15:49:04.532+02:002011-06-10T15:49:04.532+02:00@エリ
Have you read Fredric Brown's Night of t...@エリ <br /><br />Have you read Fredric Brown's <i>Night of the Jabberwock</i> and/or John Dickson Carr's <i>The Mad Hatter Mystery</i>? <br /><br />The former is a wonderful, soft-boiled detective phantasmagoria in which reality and fantasy are constantly at odds with one another and the latter is a very atmospheric account of a series of bizarre hat-thefts that end with a murder at the Tower of London! <br /><br />Plot wise, it's not one of Carr's best efforts, but a wonderful read nonetheless – especially if you enjoy stories with a Carrollian theme running through the plot. It also involves a lost manuscript by Edgar Allan Poe and the excerpt is a spot-on imitation of the grandfather of the detective story.TomCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031063966272508587.post-31926678862285836202011-06-10T15:25:48.626+02:002011-06-10T15:25:48.626+02:00I have to admit, I'm drawn to almost anything ...I have to admit, I'm drawn to almost anything that has "Alice" in the title or that references it in any way, shape, or form, but sounds like a truly interesting work.<br /><br />And indeed, there is no legitimate excuse for not heaving read the original novel. It has left its paw prints on much more than just the detective genre after all.エリhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09641476948531990785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031063966272508587.post-42356297893412827582011-06-10T15:17:26.046+02:002011-06-10T15:17:26.046+02:00I once changed up on a website that listed nearly ...I once changed up on a website that listed nearly <i>all</i> the detective stories, inclusive of classic and modern variations of the crime story, that have a Carrollian theme or merely contain references to the story (e.g. Alicesque book title) – and you'd be surprise how many of them were written over the past 100 years. Unfortunately, I lost the link and can't locate the website anymore. But it shows that <i>Alice in Wonderland</i> left its paw prints all over the genre and not just on the works of a specific group of writers. <br /><br />And there's no legitimate excuse for not having read the book! It's not that long of a story and you can pick up a perfectly fine reading copy for next to nothing at Het Boekenfestijn. You can even pick between different types of editions!TomCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.com