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tobyyy's review
1.0
I… just can’t. DNF after painful painful dialogue that’s trying too hard to be witty and just is annoying.
Examples from the first 10 pages of this book:
”But surely, Ponky, the Indians don’t play cricket in the winter, do they? They must get as cold as bare feet on an iceberg.”
“No, they do play and they don’t get cold. See, Blotters, the Indians have different seasons than us.”
“Do they? Well, I’m totally crab-whacked. That really is a bit of a rum baba. What’s wrong with the old spring-summer-autumn-winter routine? It’s worked all right for us for a good few millennia.”
“No, you’re still shimmying up the wrong drainpipe.” Ponky tried to explain. “In India, they do have the same seasons as us, but just have them at different times of the year.”
“Why, in the name of snitchrags, would anyone do that?”
(P. 4 & 5)
In a short story that would be fine but I can’t imagine reading 200+ pages of this…
Examples from the first 10 pages of this book:
”But surely, Ponky, the Indians don’t play cricket in the winter, do they? They must get as cold as bare feet on an iceberg.”
“No, they do play and they don’t get cold. See, Blotters, the Indians have different seasons than us.”
“Do they? Well, I’m totally crab-whacked. That really is a bit of a rum baba. What’s wrong with the old spring-summer-autumn-winter routine? It’s worked all right for us for a good few millennia.”
“No, you’re still shimmying up the wrong drainpipe.” Ponky tried to explain. “In India, they do have the same seasons as us, but just have them at different times of the year.”
“Why, in the name of snitchrags, would anyone do that?”
(P. 4 & 5)
In a short story that would be fine but I can’t imagine reading 200+ pages of this…
hstapp's review
3.0
A amusing tale of attempted murders, and theft. A mystery that is more about the characters than the mystery itself. The mystery is almost incidental. We pass through at least half the book before there is any mystery to be solved at all, nd then our detectives do not actively seek an answer for some time.
Not being british, some of the British words and phrases that aren't shared with me in addition to the boffing jargony nonsense that people often spout, plus the intellectual conversations that Twinks sometimes spouts, can make some things difficult to follow.
Not being british, some of the British words and phrases that aren't shared with me in addition to the boffing jargony nonsense that people often spout, plus the intellectual conversations that Twinks sometimes spouts, can make some things difficult to follow.
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