Fandom Promo: Nero Wolfe
Nov. 20th, 2019 04:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Title: Colts and Cattleyas: A Nero Wolfe Fandom Promo
Author:
delphi
Fandom: The Nero Wolfe Mystery Series
Historical Connection: This is a series of mystery novels written contemporaneously between 1934 and 1975.
Content Warning: n/a
If he had done nothing more than to create Archie Goodwin, Rex Stout would deserve the gratitude of whatever assessors watch over the prosperity of American literature.
—Jacques Barzun
His narrative and dialogue could not be improved, and he passes the supreme test of being rereadable. I don't know how many times I have reread the Wolfe stories, but plenty. I know exactly what is coming and how it is all going to end, but it doesn't matter. That's writing.
—P.G. Wodehouse
Stout says to us, "Here are two friends. Here are two people sharing their lives. As you wish for friendship, share in theirs. As you seek companionship, share in theirs. As you search for love, share in theirs." Rex Stout invites us into the family and offers warmth and security and certainty. He affirms what we all seek on some primal level. If such disparate individuals as Wolfe and Goodwin can share friendship and love and caring and life, can not we? That’s the strength here. That’s the message and the feel-good inherent in the voice and character that Rex Stout has given to Archie Goodwin. In this cold world, it is a fire on which we may warm our hands.
—Robert Crais
( The World of Nero Wolfe )
Author:
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Fandom: The Nero Wolfe Mystery Series
Historical Connection: This is a series of mystery novels written contemporaneously between 1934 and 1975.
Content Warning: n/a
If he had done nothing more than to create Archie Goodwin, Rex Stout would deserve the gratitude of whatever assessors watch over the prosperity of American literature.
—Jacques Barzun
His narrative and dialogue could not be improved, and he passes the supreme test of being rereadable. I don't know how many times I have reread the Wolfe stories, but plenty. I know exactly what is coming and how it is all going to end, but it doesn't matter. That's writing.
—P.G. Wodehouse
Stout says to us, "Here are two friends. Here are two people sharing their lives. As you wish for friendship, share in theirs. As you seek companionship, share in theirs. As you search for love, share in theirs." Rex Stout invites us into the family and offers warmth and security and certainty. He affirms what we all seek on some primal level. If such disparate individuals as Wolfe and Goodwin can share friendship and love and caring and life, can not we? That’s the strength here. That’s the message and the feel-good inherent in the voice and character that Rex Stout has given to Archie Goodwin. In this cold world, it is a fire on which we may warm our hands.
—Robert Crais
( The World of Nero Wolfe )