"Eaten by ghouls" is good.

[truepenny]

The Virtu, Chapter 8: 51 ms pgs, 11,559 wds
Running total: 401 ms pgs, 91,840 wds

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Today's valuable lesson: Doesn't matter how true it is, doesn't matter how sad you and your protagonist are that the character's dead. As an epitaph, eaten by ghouls is a guaranteed mood-breaker.

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matociquala's talking about point of view. misia has become a book pusher. And they're both so much more interesting than I am right at the moment it would make your head spin.

Comments

[lisajulie.livejournal.com]

But, but... You're reading F.W. Crofts! The only people I know who read him are my family and jonsinger, and he reads them because I proselytized them.

I can't remember. Do you read R. Austin Freeman?

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

I've read The Red Thumb Mark and didn't like it terribly well. But I have my eye out for others--in particular, I'd like to find a short story collection, because I think his prose style might suit me better in shorter doses.

[lisajulie.livejournal.com]

There's a Dover reprint (from the old Dover Publications) with "The Stoneware Monkey" and some other shorter works.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Well, stone the crows.

I have The Stoneware Monkey--I'd forgotten about it entirely until you mentioned it. However, though it's Dover (published in 1987), it's only TSM, not a collection.

I'll have to give it a go after I finish with Inspector French's Greatest Case

[marith.livejournal.com]

I don't know, the valuable lesson about "eaten by ghouls" was pretty entertaining too. I'm just hoping it wasn't a character I know and like from Melusine...

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's somebody who died in Mélusine. So, you know, not recently eaten by ghouls.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Minor character. Died in the first book.

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

Does however give rise to Bear's favorite line in The Virtu:

"Y'all know you got ghouls?"

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Got ghouls? would make a great icon caption.

And here, since Bear's quoted the line, a very small tidbit:

... behind me, Mildmay said, "Um, Felix?"

I turned. His face had gone a ghastly color, even allowing for the witchlights. "Did you know y'all got ghouls down here?"

And I remembered, in an entirely different and very visceral way, the death of -------.

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

http://www.nascr.net/~jcburd/ghoul.jpg

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Yeesh.

[oracne.livejournal.com]

eaten by ghouls.

I confess, I laughed.