tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post8057462139941560814..comments2024-03-27T22:32:02.739+01:00Comments on Beneath the Stains of Time: The Opening Night Murders (2019) by James Scott ByrnsideTomCathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-53874186653609573572019-06-18T12:35:35.105+02:002019-06-18T12:35:35.105+02:00@Dian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqsibzAiIBs
...@Dian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqsibzAiIBs<br />Be it drawing, writing or playing I think it's all up to just doing it instead of thinking of doing it or believing you can do it.<br /><br />Just today I learned how to play a short sheet in row myself as usually I just stopped after every 4 notes, what I used was Metronome on a digital piano that does the clicking sounds for every time you press a key. Definitely use Metronome for practicing on playing entire sheets.<br /><br />I wonder if Byrnside also used some hacks for his writing.Anhiksihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00817774165396917723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-88575441436231618822019-06-18T08:42:47.702+02:002019-06-18T08:42:47.702+02:00Ooh, what's the video's title?Ooh, what's the video's title?Dian Adhantohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12302259612602336657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-40785730076506767112019-06-17T12:57:05.055+02:002019-06-17T12:57:05.055+02:00Sure, you can make up a lot with hard work and stu...Sure, you can make up a lot with hard work and stubborn persistence, but having a lick of talent makes that work so much easier. TomCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-6893910790958287842019-06-17T12:51:22.773+02:002019-06-17T12:51:22.773+02:00"Hopefully they manage to come up with better..."<i>Hopefully they manage to come up with better screens, don't like reading novels on phone or computer.</i>"<br /><br />You should never read novels on a phone, tablet or computer, because you'll ruin your eyes. And you get tired easily. Get a good e-reader which have very different types of (i-ink) screens. TomCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-33632466510634997362019-06-17T12:45:57.789+02:002019-06-17T12:45:57.789+02:00"I admire your optimism, TC, but for a second..."<i>I admire your optimism, TC, but for a second Golden Age don't we need, like, lots of other people to also be doing this sort of thing to this standard?</i>"<br /><br />You know, people have said the exact same thing about my prediction of a renaissance era ten years ago. Who was going to be publish them? We only had Crippen & Landru and Rue Morgue Press at the time, but look what started to happen towards the middle of this decade. I eventually blogged about it in 2014 (<a href="http://moonlight-detective.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-renaissance-era-of-detective-fiction.html" rel="nofollow">The Renaissance Era of Detective Fiction</a>). Martin Edwards and Curt Evans have started using "renaissance era" to describe this period of reprints and translations. <br /><br />I'm not saying that we'll enter the Second Golden Age tomorrow, but you have to see Byrnside's <i>Goodnight Irene</i> and <i>The Opening Night Murders</i> as a harbinger of things to come. Like the publication of Chesterton's <i>The Innocence of Father Brown</i> in 1911. <br /><br />So you better start saving money, because that Second Golden Age is coming. TomCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-24384567212524399372019-06-16T23:45:03.200+02:002019-06-16T23:45:03.200+02:00It will come. I believe you.
@JJ Maybe we'll b...It will come. I believe you.<br />@JJ Maybe we'll be forced to read e-books then to save paper. Hopefully they manage to come up with better screens, don't like reading novels on phone or computer.Anhiksihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00817774165396917723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-15853915750980720542019-06-16T23:36:57.569+02:002019-06-16T23:36:57.569+02:00One thing that I want to mention is that I doubt B...One thing that I want to mention is that I doubt Byrnside's spectacular debute is because of merely raw talent but also effort. There's a youtube video about a boy who started playing piano and each and every day for about two hours he practiced it for the next 365 days, that boy showed the fruits of his labor in that video and that reminded me of this. Just doing something you're truly passionate about for one year WILL bring results. <br /><br />Anyway, this sounds very interesting. Noted. Anhiksihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00817774165396917723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-40298594428791730202019-06-16T19:23:09.998+02:002019-06-16T19:23:09.998+02:00I admire your optimism, TC, but for a second Golde...I admire your optimism, TC, but for a second Golden Age don't we need, like, lots of <i>other</i> people to also be doing this sort of thing to this standard? Sure, some are creeping through the cracks: Halter's written another one, Anthony Horowitz is adapting well to the detection idiom, and maybe there are a couple of other Robert Inneses or Byrnsides out there doing quiet, quality, determined work in the self-published stream...but I'll remain cautious about a sudden upswell in this sort of thing just yet.<br /><br />Also, I still have so much stuff to read from the <i>first</i> Golden Age that I'm not sure my bank account is ready for a second one. And post-Brexit won't all books be converted into food or clothes or toilet paper? Man, I should have stockpiled those James Pattersons after all...JJ @ The Invisible Eventhttps://theinvisibleevent.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-39505815908286965802019-06-16T09:51:47.264+02:002019-06-16T09:51:47.264+02:00Yes, Byrnside is quite the discovery and he makes ...Yes, Byrnside is quite the discovery and he makes me look forward to what the 2020s might bring us. I predicted the current Renaissance Era ten years ago and people were skeptical, but look where we are today. Mark my words, I think the dawn of a Second Golden Age is about to break with Byrnside bridging the gap between the two periods. Very much how E.C. Bentley, G.K. Chesterton and R. Austin Freeman bridged the decade (1910s) between the Gaslight Era and the First Golden Age. TomCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-4877872451771384402019-06-15T17:35:44.004+02:002019-06-15T17:35:44.004+02:00Yeah, the planets are out of alignment: we agree c...Yeah, the planets are out of alignment: we agree completely once again. I haven't read anything from a modern author that matches the brilliance of that final dovetailing since The Madman's Room by Paul Halter. The complexity of this is wonderful, but it's also so superbly written -- not getting bogged down in trying to cram in events to allow for the answer, and instead allowing the simplicity and complexity of it all to overlap seamlessly. Good heavens, what a performance.<br /><br />Byrnside is ripping up what it seemed was possible in the impossible crime novel in the 21st century, and if Goodnight Irene was his take on the country house and this is his take on the theatrical mystery then the no footprints problem of Barrington Hills Vampire is something to get very, very excited about. I mean, it's something to get very, very excited about anyway, but given my particular love for a no footprints mystery I reserve the right to get even more excited than usual...JJ @ The Invisible Eventhttps://theinvisibleevent.comnoreply@blogger.com