NancyLebovitz comments on Lawrence Watt-Evans's Fiction - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 19 July 2010 01:10:18PM 1 point [-]

I read a couple of Agatha Christie mysteries, and it looked as though she believed that only one sort of person (sociopathic) would commit an interesting murder. That's probably reasonable, but if the solution is to look for the sort of character rather than pay attention to the details of the mystery, the books became not interesting for me.

Admittedly, I didn't update by reading a few more Christies, so I may be unfair.