Georgette Heyer

[erilyn]

Quick poll - to those of my friends who have the excellent taste to be Georgette Heyer fans, which of her romances (as I haven't read the detective novels) are your favourites?

Mine would include Masqueraders, These Old Shades, Grand Sophy, Talisman Ring, Nonesuch, Cotillion, and The Corinthian. And it was hard to narrow it down to that many :)

Comments

[phoebesmum.livejournal.com]

Talisman Ring would actually make a good film, it has a strong enough plot to carry a script. Fond as I am of all the rest, a lot of them are just boy/girl/misunderstanding/resolution. But I wouldn't trust anyone working in the film industry today not to mess it up, we're probably best off with our imaginations.

A lot of people just don't get Georgette Heyer, including my housemate, who once told me she'd read all the detective novels, but she thought she'd leave the bodice-rippers. Me, in great indignation: "I don't read bodice-rippers, and Georgette Heyer didn't write them!" They don't seem to register that the humour is what sets them apart in the genre. Eh well, their loss.

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

But I wouldn't trust anyone working in the film industry today not to mess it up, we're probably best off with our imaginations.

Sadly, too true.

Did this insane housemate try the romances before making this pronouncement *g*? Bodice-ripping in Heyer?