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   Ignatios Souvatzis to Steve Hayes   
   Re: SF: Book recommendations   
   02 Feb 26 08:27:14   
   
   XPost: alt.usage.english, rec.arts.books, rec.arts.sf.written   
   From: u502sou@bnhb484.de   
      
   Steve Hayes wrote:   
      
   > Would you put Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov" in crime fiction?   
   > It's certainly a whodunit, but it's also a great deal more.   
      
   There is a piece by James Thurber about a lady he met in his hotel   
   who complained that Shakespear's Macbeth was printed in the same   
   format as her beloved - for travel reading - detective stories,   
   then after reading it criticized it for the improbable murderer.   
   Questioned, she claimed the natural bad person would have been   
   ZnpQhss.   
      
   (Thurber, James 1943 The Thurber Carnival Harper and Brothers, NY pp. 60-63)   
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