I'm about 200 pages in and I've found the first thing that really annoys me:
Rebekah Send a noteboard - 02/06/2010 11:15:33 PM
It's completely inconsequential, but Simmons styles Drood's father as Lord Lucan, a Radical MP who was horribly murdered.
Dude.
You don't name fictional characters who surround real people with names that are already in existence. There was a Lord Lucan in the 1800s, and he most certainly wasn't murdered. Sure, it's a name that sounds good, and there is, of course, the connection with the real Lord Lucan who disappeared in the 1970s (and was the 8th Lord Lucan), but seriously. Choose a different name when you're going to have someone horribly murdered. That's just lazy.
When I explained this to Tim, he was more concerned that a Lord could be an MP. Apparently impossible.
As for Wilkie Collins: he was a fairly unsavoury chap, really. I suspect it's not libel when things are true. For all that, though, I do get the feeling that Simmons prefers Collins' works to Dickens. I can explain that to you better in person than in words.![:P](/site_media/images/smilies/tongue.gif)
I agree that it is completely over the top, and almost definitely over long. I'm just 200 odd pages in and I already wish it was finished.
Dude.
You don't name fictional characters who surround real people with names that are already in existence. There was a Lord Lucan in the 1800s, and he most certainly wasn't murdered. Sure, it's a name that sounds good, and there is, of course, the connection with the real Lord Lucan who disappeared in the 1970s (and was the 8th Lord Lucan), but seriously. Choose a different name when you're going to have someone horribly murdered. That's just lazy.
When I explained this to Tim, he was more concerned that a Lord could be an MP. Apparently impossible.
As for Wilkie Collins: he was a fairly unsavoury chap, really. I suspect it's not libel when things are true. For all that, though, I do get the feeling that Simmons prefers Collins' works to Dickens. I can explain that to you better in person than in words.
![:P](/site_media/images/smilies/tongue.gif)
I agree that it is completely over the top, and almost definitely over long. I'm just 200 odd pages in and I already wish it was finished.
![:P](/site_media/images/smilies/tongue.gif)
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02/06/2010 10:47:13 PM
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I'm about 200 pages in and I've found the first thing that really annoys me:
02/06/2010 11:15:33 PM
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Re: I'm about 200 pages in and I've found the first thing that really annoys me:
02/06/2010 11:18:23 PM
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There are (okay, were, I'm temporarily living in the 1890s...) MPs who are styled Lord, though.
02/06/2010 11:22:33 PM
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Link me, please?
02/06/2010 11:31:01 PM
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Sure.
02/06/2010 11:46:32 PM
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Nice review. I have a possibly difficult question...
02/06/2010 11:18:56 PM
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Re: Nice review. I have a possibly difficult question...
06/06/2010 01:43:42 AM
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That Italian book
06/06/2010 09:24:47 AM
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damning review had it on my wishlist...i'll be taking it off
03/06/2010 05:29:42 PM
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Re: damning review had it on my wishlist...i'll be taking it off
03/06/2010 05:36:06 PM
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Have now finished it.
04/06/2010 04:30:48 PM
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*spoiler*
04/06/2010 04:32:19 PM
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Well, within the bounds of the story there's really nothing slanderous in that.
04/06/2010 04:43:34 PM
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Re: Well, within the bounds of the story there's really nothing slanderous in that.
04/06/2010 04:56:35 PM
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