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[flemmings]

Finished London Falling. I know I'll read the next one, if and when, and perhaps be less traumatized now that I know what Cornell does and can do, but ohhhh was that a scarifying trip while it lasted.

Amused by the comment that it began as a rough-out for a possible TV series. I can actually see how that would work. Substantially changed along the way? I do believe it: two of your four main characters are black, and one of those-- the most normal of the lot-- is gay as well. Good work.

It has however wiped out any memory I had of that Pinborough horror/ mystery that I read in January. My mind has room for only one set of police inspectors with crumbling marriages handling horrific murders in London; I can no longer even recall Who Did It, or why.

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[incandescens]

Now we really need a new Aaronovitch to give us some brighter images.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

July is a long way off.

[paleaswater.livejournal.com]

should I try it? is it scary or depressing?

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Scary. Utterly scary. And really truly not good reading for parents, unless you have a complete divorce between fiction and reality. Less good than Aaronovitch and Griffin for sensaLunnon, but much better than anyone else; kind of a B- for, err, 'the ancient layers of the emotional city affecting the present.' This is not all bad, in that the emotions that do crop up relate to football (Brit version) which is the sort of thing that probably *does* rouse the Brit gestalt, but feels weird to a foreigner. (Tower ravens, London bridge, the Underground: that's the power nexuses that furners expect.) (Can never remember if nexus is a first or a fourth. Googles-- fourth. One power nexus, two power nexūs. Let's stick to nexuses.)