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Re: Nice review. I have a possibly difficult question... Camilla Send a noteboard - 02/06/2010 11:21:24 PM
To what extent do you figure someone who isn't particularly familiar with Dickens and this unfinished book of his would be bothered by some of these things you bring up? Though your example about the racist liberals made sense to me, I'm familiar enough with Victorianism to see your point there.

I might read it at some point, I guess, but I think I should read a lot of other books by Simmons first - Endymion and sequel, Ilium and Olympos.


I did not bring up the more Edwin Drood-specific things that annoyed me, precisely because those are things that might not annoy others as much. But while I cannot really say that I know someone more unfamiliar with Dickens would be annoyed, those things did not generally annoy me because of something I had learnt recently.
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/Other Literature: Drood by Dan Simmons - 02/06/2010 10:47:13 PM 17177 Views
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