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I am currently reading my longest-standing TBR: A Taste for Death by PD James. I received this book as a prize in 1986. To be more specific, I was given a book token, and used it for this and a Thesaurus*, which were then presented to me at a ceremony. I was already an SF&F reader by then, but felt I needed to pick something presentable, and I was enjoying the TV adaptations of the Adam Dalgliesh books at the time.
I believe I did attempt to read it at the time, but was put off by it being a bit slow and overy descriptive. I still find it little bit overwrought for my taste, but it's perfectly readable. I'm not quite two thirds of the way through, and I can't help thinking I'd be done by now if it was an Agatha Christie, but for all that I am quite enjoying it.
I though this was probably the biggest barrier to completing my ABC Murders challenge this year, so I decided to get it out of the way as soon as possible.
*I never really used the thesaurus much, either, but my parents got a lot of use from it for crosswords until it eventually fell apart some years ago.
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