Simenon, c/d?

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I've recently found sound George Simenon books that, judging by the cover, look pretty interesting. Is he good? If so, which are his best books?

― Mo Baht, Saturday, 26 February 2005 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I myself never could get into him. But I'm sure there are some fans around here.

― Ken L (Ken L), Sunday, 27 February 2005 00:16 (twenty-one years ago)

We got set L'homme de Londres as an exam translation text when I was at uni - we had all year to study the book and would then be set a random passage to translate in the exam. Fortunately for us, they picked the first two paragraphs of chapter one, which was pretty much all I and most of the other students had ever read. And it's still all I've ever read, sorry!

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 28 February 2005 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

The world's most prolific author, apparently. I have all the Maigret books, but in Norwegian translation. I haven't read him in English. I like the Maigret books.

― SRH (Skrik), Monday, 28 February 2005 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

They're OK... but as charming a policier as Maigret may be, I prefer my detectives amateur.

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Sunday, 6 March 2005 21:30 (twenty-one years ago)

In my opinion, Simenon's best novel is called "La neige était sale" (The snow was dirty).

― Walt Hermann, Saturday, 12 March 2005 12:07 (twenty-one years ago)

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