Oh, hey, I've been writing furiously so I can hit that upcoming deadline, I need some light, pleasant reading tonight. How about a detective novel from the 30s by a classic author of the genre that'll be just the OMG THE FUCKING RACISM
@ann_leckie Now I want to play Guess The Book. (I'm guessing it's either Sayers or Christie.)
@eilatan No, another big name of the period, but it could easily have been either of those.
@ann_leckie Yeah, I am constantly sad about the racism in Sayers.
@eilatan @ann_leckie I spent a good portion of a Christie novel confused about the link to the Apache nation.
@eilatan @ann_leckie could be Chandler as well, though maybe heβs a bit later than what we are talking about.
@Robert_MacAnthony @eilatan Oof, yeah, last I read Chandler I had a similar reaction. Someone else tho.
@ann_leckie If you haven't read them yet, Anthony Horowitz's Holmes stories are a potential way around this problem.
@ann_leckie yeah I have that experience so often. and it's even more jarring when i reread something i read a long time ago and see all the things i didn't notice the first time :(
@ann_leckie yup. I tried to go back to a Heinlein book recently, and oh, the sexism. I think I made it three chapters.
@ann_leckie I tried reading some classic James Bond and it was OMG SEXISM.
@ann_leckie Yeah. Without knowing the book, I still know exactly what you mean.