tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post2330998935645622983..comments2024-03-28T10:31:55.774-07:00Comments on The Passing Tramp: Something about a Will: Child's Play (1987), by Reginald HillThe Passing Tramphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-42175697867950142422015-05-27T02:37:52.240-07:002015-05-27T02:37:52.240-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13158011647124915919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-14455307127868387992015-05-26T15:19:48.686-07:002015-05-26T15:19:48.686-07:00Certainly! I'll drop you a line tonight.Certainly! I'll drop you a line tonight.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13158011647124915919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-59256422960938725532015-05-26T00:40:36.855-07:002015-05-26T00:40:36.855-07:00Oh, now you are opening a can of worms! How about...Oh, now you are opening a can of worms! How about Anthony Trollope?<br /><br />There's richness and *life* to Hill that I don't get in James, who, despite her virtues, seems rather one-note (gloomy) by comparison.<br /><br />Please get in touch with me, by the way, there are some things I wanted to discuss with you!The Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-35374204893088362732015-05-26T00:26:46.630-07:002015-05-26T00:26:46.630-07:00Glad to see you like Hill!
That string of late ...Glad to see you like Hill! <br /><br />That string of late novels - Pictures of Perfection, Recalled to Life, The Wood Beyond, On Beulah Height and Dialogues of the Dead - is sheer genius.<br /><br />It's not surprising that Hill admired Terry Pratchett; both writers took a popular form and wrote rich and complex novels that dealt with 'serious themes' (war, death, religion, child abuse, social upheavals) - which were also grandly entertaining, with an often bawdy sense of humour, AND (in Hill's case) were brilliantly plotted, with some of the best clues since WWII. Of course, the literary ancestor for both writers is Dickens. Can one talk about the Dickens school of detective fiction (which would probably include Chesterton and Bailey as well) vs. the Jane Austen / George Eliot / (silly novels by) lady novelists school?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13158011647124915919noreply@blogger.com