tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031063966272508587.post897296153935187745..comments2024-03-27T06:07:20.345+01:00Comments on ボクの事件簿: Death wears an OrchidHo-Linghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04673330638260132388noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031063966272508587.post-12312880119536030032012-08-29T08:29:33.559+02:002012-08-29T08:29:33.559+02:00One deleted post and repost later...
One day, I w...<i>One deleted post and repost later...</i><br /><br />One day, I will master this complex branched reply system!Ho-Linghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04673330638260132388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031063966272508587.post-6318777848893113202012-08-29T08:28:38.748+02:002012-08-29T08:28:38.748+02:00It's of course a problem of both demand and su...It's of course a problem of both demand and supply, though I am not sure how strong an influence publishers have on the demand of consumers over the world. What I have noticed in Japan however is that the major publishers are quite strong in pushing their new releases in the faces of the consumers in the book stores, also coming up with special events (collecting stamps for special book covers, re-releases of classic popular books under a certain theme), but I don't think that this approach would work in for example, the USA. I said, having no idea things work there. But still.<br /><br />Though this is mainly for the Japanese releases. Going into the topic of translated English (Western) detective fiction, I think that besides Queen, Carr and what thriller writer is popular right now, few are actually read. Certainly happy to have been able to get Crofts, but when a senior held a Crofts reading club session at the mystery club he did mention that we're probably the only mystery club in Western Japan to actually read and discuss (something as old/classic) as Crofts.<br /><br />Falling in love with <i>Conan</i> brought me all the way out to Japan, so who knows what might still happen to you! :)<br /><br />I'm happy you enjoy my writing! I think it depends on what you want to accomplish with your reviews. This blog didn't start out as a serious mystery blog (and it still isn't) and it is for that reason I think I still mostly write precisely like I think: it explains the chaos and the personal anecdotes. Which is also why this blog is kinda hard to follow I think if you just start randomly: I often refer to previous reviews/comments because that is just the way things comes up in my mind. But I don't think I would be able to write this often if I would be write more serious / compacter / topic - focused. It makes this site a bit more personal / harder to get into, I guess, but this is how it works for me as someone who writes. You should just find a 'writing mode' that works with you.Ho-Linghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04673330638260132388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031063966272508587.post-45834795728732974802012-08-28T02:23:28.496+02:002012-08-28T02:23:28.496+02:00I really liked this review. It wasn't bland......I really liked this review. It wasn't bland... all three of those premises sound cool. To answer the question you posed at the end, I think the reason is that most English publishers forget about the good things created in their language (not to mention the incredible stories created in foreign languages).<br /><br />Great authors are only mortal, only kept alive when their books are kept available. There will be fans of the classic mystery in every decade. Keeping mysteries out-of-print is a bad idea because some of their ideal audience will be born decades too late. In some cases, older fans might not live long enough for a book to be released. (This happened with video games: http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=28209)<br /><br />Every person is mortal. There's always people dying, too much awful stuff in the world. Culture is the only thing we can hope to keep alive. But when we waste paper printing news that only serves to depress, we hold ourselves back as a civilization. Printing literature should take priority: it's more thought-provoking, and also more entertaining. Mysteries are plain fun to read, posing questions grounded in logic, decomposing in the ground. There's an audience out there, waiting for their release. There's an audience out there, waiting to be discovered.<br /><br />I myself am a newbie to detective fiction. I didn't realize how much I loved mysteries if it weren't for <i>Detective Conan</i>, a series that changed my life.<br /><br />I always enjoy reading your reviews because you give things a fair shake; you really care about mysteries. Everything reviewed on this blog gets a chance. Stories aren't always disparaged—not like how you unfairly disparage your own writing. You're a really good writer. I have a hard time writing anything, and to see someone review stuff so often, consistently and humorously, is something I wish I could do. Reading this blog, I look up to it (and in the background see a nighttime sky filled with apartment lights).Pikkonhttp://layonthecrime.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com