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Re: I'm about 200 pages in and I've found the first thing that really annoys me: Camilla Send a noteboard - 02/06/2010 11:18:23 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

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


Regarding the second last paragraph, all I can say is "wait for it".

But yes. I am glad we are generally in agreement.
I know I was perhaps a little harsh in the review. The book just annoyed me so much.
*MySmiley*
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/Other Literature: Drood by Dan Simmons - 02/06/2010 10:47:13 PM 5239 Views
I'm about 200 pages in and I've found the first thing that really annoys me: - 02/06/2010 11:15:33 PM 1582 Views
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 1661 Views
Suspect I am getting there. - 03/06/2010 11:49:16 PM 1419 Views
There are (okay, were, I'm temporarily living in the 1890s...) MPs who are styled Lord, though. - 02/06/2010 11:22:33 PM 1464 Views
Link me, please? - 02/06/2010 11:31:01 PM 1470 Views
Sure. - 02/06/2010 11:46:32 PM 1831 Views
Thanks. - 03/06/2010 11:48:47 PM 1410 Views
Well? *NM* - 05/06/2010 02:26:36 PM 907 Views
Haven't got round to that yet. Been busy. Patience. *NM* - 05/06/2010 03:50:13 PM 772 Views
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damning review had it on my wishlist...i'll be taking it off - 03/06/2010 05:29:42 PM 1430 Views
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edwin drood edwin drood - 04/06/2010 10:35:51 AM 1413 Views
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Have now finished it. - 04/06/2010 04:30:48 PM 1397 Views
*spoiler* - 04/06/2010 04:32:19 PM 1488 Views
Dickens clearly left it half written on purpose.... - 06/06/2010 04:08:54 AM 1473 Views
You are not the first to suggest that - 06/06/2010 10:32:45 AM 1378 Views

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