<![CDATA[I am reading “Maigret at the Coroner’s” at the moment, a postwar Maigret written by Simenon when he was living in Tucson.]]>I am reading “Maigret at the Coroner’s” at the moment, a postwar Maigret written by Simenon when he was living in Tucson.

The book is also set in Tucson, with Maigret supposedly on a US study tour.

Simenon had left France for America after having been accused, then cleared, of collaborating (he had sold some film rights to a Nazi studio).

The main themes of the book so far are, Maigret fucking hates Tucson, Maigret fucking hates Americans, and Americans drink too much.

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I love a person with a lotta Dick under their belt.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/stevegis_ssg/statuses/116416417451243022https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/stevegis_ssg/statuses/116416417451243022Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:05:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I am reading “Maigret at the Coroner’s” at the moment, a postwar Maigret written by Simenon when he was living in Tucson. on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:39:52 GMT]]>@veronica @stevegis_ssg @Nickiquote parts of the story is utterly ridiculous, but there's some that I really love. and following a family through 400 years is pretty cool ... especially when they've got magic powers, a curse, and a tragic past 😃

(at the end we have a "chosen one" who's the seventh son of a seventh son, the grandson of a demon and the great-grandson of Lucifer)

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/melindrea/statuses/116416314873156654https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/melindrea/statuses/116416314873156654Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:39:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I am reading “Maigret at the Coroner’s” at the moment, a postwar Maigret written by Simenon when he was living in Tucson. on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:37:17 GMT]]>@melindrea @stevegis_ssg @Nickiquote I mostly know about those books because evangelicals panicked about them in the 90s, which made them immediately interesting. 😄

(Never got around to reading them though.)

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.online/users/veronica/statuses/116416304722886937https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.online/users/veronica/statuses/116416304722886937Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:37:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I am reading “Maigret at the Coroner’s” at the moment, a postwar Maigret written by Simenon when he was living in Tucson. on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:21:48 GMT]]>@stevegis_ssg @Nickiquote My partner is something of a PKD scholar and says they couldn’t have put this better themself.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/astronomerritt/statuses/116416243828850123https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/astronomerritt/statuses/116416243828850123Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:21:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I am reading “Maigret at the Coroner’s” at the moment, a postwar Maigret written by Simenon when he was living in Tucson. on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:16:42 GMT]]>@stevegis_ssg @Nickiquote One of my favourite authors (most don't know her, Margit Sandemo, she wrote supernatural historic fiction back in the 80s originally) wrote her largest series (70-something books, starting in the 1500s, ending in the 1960s, with flashbacks to something like the 1100s ...) where she had a deadline for each.

You can tell which she didn't have much of a plot for, because as the plot went down, the sexings went up >.> (also it got decidedly wilder through the books, but ...)

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/melindrea/statuses/116416223818063761https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/melindrea/statuses/116416223818063761Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:16:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I am reading “Maigret at the Coroner’s” at the moment, a postwar Maigret written by Simenon when he was living in Tucson. on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:09:24 GMT]]>@AnarchoNinaWrites This seems to be it, yep.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/Nickiquote/statuses/116416195072883307https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/Nickiquote/statuses/116416195072883307Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:09:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I am reading “Maigret at the Coroner’s” at the moment, a postwar Maigret written by Simenon when he was living in Tucson. on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:07:36 GMT]]>@Nickiquote The problem isn't the drinking, it's not being able to handle as much as you've drunk. My mother is French, this is more or less how she feels about alcohol.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://jorts.horse/users/AnarchoNinaWrites/statuses/116416188003242406https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://jorts.horse/users/AnarchoNinaWrites/statuses/116416188003242406Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:07:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I am reading “Maigret at the Coroner’s” at the moment, a postwar Maigret written by Simenon when he was living in Tucson. on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:06:59 GMT]]>@Nickiquote Two weeks for a novel, ha? Films based on them seem to drag just as long 😁

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/TazPoltorak/statuses/116416185624558424https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/TazPoltorak/statuses/116416185624558424Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:06:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I am reading “Maigret at the Coroner’s” at the moment, a postwar Maigret written by Simenon when he was living in Tucson. on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:06:32 GMT]]>@Nickiquote Well that just sounds like real life.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/roknrol/statuses/116416183808648977https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/roknrol/statuses/116416183808648977Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:06:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I am reading “Maigret at the Coroner’s” at the moment, a postwar Maigret written by Simenon when he was living in Tucson. on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:00:43 GMT]]>As I have mentioned before, there is SO much drinking in Maigret novels and a weirdly French and dated attitude to alcohol.

Everyone drinks all the time, including police, on duty, in the mornings. But some people are still regarded as drunks.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/Nickiquote/statuses/116416160955901416https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/Nickiquote/statuses/116416160955901416Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:00:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I am reading “Maigret at the Coroner’s” at the moment, a postwar Maigret written by Simenon when he was living in Tucson. on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:57:49 GMT]]>@Nickiquote

Philip K. Dick wrote all his sci-fi on deadline and on spec. He would agonize over the early parts and then as the deadline approached he would bang out some kind of deus ex machina ending in the grip of amphetamine psychosis. Once you know this, you can pretty clearly see exactly when he stopped sleeping in each one.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/stevegis_ssg/statuses/116416149575921125https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/stevegis_ssg/statuses/116416149575921125Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:57:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I am reading “Maigret at the Coroner’s” at the moment, a postwar Maigret written by Simenon when he was living in Tucson. on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:51:09 GMT]]>@stevegis_ssg Ta.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/Nickiquote/statuses/116416123327489467https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/Nickiquote/statuses/116416123327489467Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:51:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I am reading “Maigret at the Coroner’s” at the moment, a postwar Maigret written by Simenon when he was living in Tucson. on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:48:48 GMT]]>@Nickiquote

Bizarrely, it's "Tucson."

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/stevegis_ssg/statuses/116416114114125187https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/stevegis_ssg/statuses/116416114114125187Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:48:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I am reading “Maigret at the Coroner’s” at the moment, a postwar Maigret written by Simenon when he was living in Tucson. on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:48:15 GMT]]>Simenon used to dash Maigret novels off very quickly, usually in a week or so. This often makes for a nice pacey, concise story, but it also means that his mood can shine through pretty clearly.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/Nickiquote/statuses/116416111933304251https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/Nickiquote/statuses/116416111933304251Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:48:15 GMT