Very true! If you do actually want to try them, there are only a few in the series that /wouldn't/ make a fine starting point, but I'm partial to The Silent Speaker

I mean, mainly they're detective novels of the 30s-60s and they have all of the "of its time" issues you might expect, but they also have some of the best prose and most engaging central characters in the genre

I can't think of another crime and mystery series that does this so consistently - almost all of them conflate police action with the law of the land... which we as citizens are also trained to do.

One thing that's striking in rereading the Nero Wolfe books is how often the heroes insist on their rights /not/ to cooperate with police. It is baked into the ethos of the series that police will try to overstep their authority and that a good, informed citizen will resist those attempts.

It's important that other people watch Prometheus because the reactions are very funny It is a film that inspires comic genius

QUITE BAD

How many prior confrontations have there been where tonkla backed down sooner, adjusted down his expectations of this relationship, until they got to this point

Can't stop thinking about how we all read the relationship as a sugar deal from the get-go and how... not incorrect that is even knowing now that it started different

A revealing thing about some negative responses to ‘The Woods All Black’: people who treat the embodied sexuality in a book about queerness, religious oppression, and bodily/erotic autonomy as somehow “unnecessary” or extraneous or even as offensive to them personally—

Rachel Neumeier - the Tuyo series is some of my all-time favorite fantasy