Lizzie Borden Society Forum

I saw SocietyGirl's post on looking for a Sattherwaite "Miss Lizzie". I read it once, years ago, and didn't like it.

I'm wondering who likes that book and why? I'm missing something.

I've got the book but haven't started yet. I am taking it from you that it wasnn't very good.

Ooh, Snookums - I'm just one person giving one opinion. Please put aside what I thought of it and read it. You might love it.

There's a lot of people who like the book. In the old 'Lizzie Borden Quarterly' the lady who did little reviews of Lizzie books named that as her favorite! Not too long ago, someone on this Forum said they really liked it, too.

I am very interested to know why people who liked it did like it, that's all. I'd really like to hear their point of view on it.

My favorite Lizzie fiction book is "Lizzie" by Evan Hunter, and a whole lot of people don't like that book.

I liked Sattherwaite's Miss Lizzie for the most part. The ending was kind of sad though, talking about the people who had died. The part with Miss Lizzie and Mrs Mortimer having a battle of the axes was a bit too much.

I looked at it as a different kind of fiction as some of the fiction books tell part of the real story and try to solve the crime, whereas this book is totally different. It mentions the 1892 crime here and there throughout the book but other than that, it really has nothing to do with it. It is basically a work of complete fiction. So I took it as that when I read it.

This book deals with a different fictional crime. When you need a break from reading the real thing then there is Miss Lizzie. It gave me a refreshing break. It gives us something else to read.

I really liked this fiction book. I guess because the thing that interests me the most is who Lizzie was as a person, not really the murders. Although you can say that the murders did affect her as a person.
It was a different take from other Lizzie fiction books I had read, and thought he wrote really well. I just found it very imaginative and entertaining, and I liked how he made into a real person with feelings.
Pammie

Fargo, be sure to label plot developments as "Spoilers."

I kinda liked it, ex cept for (as I've posted before) the author's annoying use of names connected with the case for other, unrelated characters, like his Dr. Bowen.

I forgot how he portrayed Bowen. Anyone remember?

I do like Lizzie fiction. I think it gives us possibilities - and sometimes downright good ones - of what she was like. I liked Evan Hunter's portrayal of her and Elizabeth Engstrom, tho I didn't agree with everything in their books.

I hated what Sattherwaite did to Lizzie. Cigar smoking? Card playing? It really turned me off. I thought it was amateurish. I also found it predictable.

I'm pretty sure it's the worst Lizzie book I ever read.