I want to write a novel where Oscar Wilde is an amateur detective, solving crimes and spouting witty epigrams. Whistler could be his beligerant Watson.
I also want to write a series of "Jesus Christ, Teen Detective" books. Think Encyclopedia Brown, with occasional unexplained divine phenomena, and cameos by Lucifer, Angels, and all our favorite characters from the New Testament! The ages between 12 and 30 of Jesus' life aren't really dealt with in the NT, so who's to say whether ole J.C. wasn't a bit of a sleuth! The more I think about it, the more I like the idea, which says more about my inability to discern a good idea from bad than it does the strength of the idea itself.
Now that I think about it, I'm not sure that both these ideas haven't been used in books already. Anyways, I'm pretty sure I could do it better. Or, at any rate, funnier.
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You're a fan, I take it?
I'm so old, I didn't even know there was an Encyclopedia Brown movie. The books were really popular in my elementary school, in the era before the "Choose Your Own Adventure" books. All I remember about Encyclopedia Brown was that there was a lot a talk about the stores and theaters in his hometown of Idaville. And one of his clues to solving one of the mysteries was that people from San Fransisco didn't say they were from "Frisco". I did not know that!
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