Re: Some moron's review of Deadly Assassin

On 31 Jul 2005 12:39:28 -0700, "solar penguin"
<solar.penguin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>--- Framester said...
>
>> She wrote *books* where the reader created the atmosphere in his or
>> her or it's head.
>
>Good job of missing the point there!
>
>Ok, to make it clearer, consider one of the rare occasions when she got
>it wrong:
>
>There's a continuity error in chapter one of "The Secret Adversary".
>Tommy first says he's been out of the army for two months then for ten
>months. It's a genuine mistake by the author, but since this is a
>whodunnit you're ready to spot every little detail in case it's a clue.
> So, you're left thinking that Tommy's lying about how long he's been
>demobbed, and what he's trying to hide. And soon you keep finding
>yourself distracted from the rest of the story because you keep trying
>to fit this one clue into all the others, and you can't. You end up
>not enjoying the book at all.
>
>You see the point now? Mystery stories _have_ to have a higher
>standard of care taken with the details, otherwise they just don't
>work. And, like it or not, The Deadly Assassin _is_ a murder mystery,
>so it needed that level of attention from the writer. And it didn't
>get it, so it suffers as a result.

Maybe you've missed it but I saw nothing compelling enough in your
examples. Every one of them could have been explained satisfactorally
from a different perspective, just like I did with you TV example. If
you would care to post your link again, I will take the time to go
through your review point by point and pick it apart.
.

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