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thisisgettingstupid999 's review for:
Dark Corners
by Ruth Rendell
There’s been recent publicity about Roald Dahl’s books being revised to remove language which could now be considered outdated and offensive. Perhaps when they’ve finished, they could take a look at ‘Dark Corners’, where the word ‘fat’, and other size-judgemental language, is used repeatedly.
It felt very much like it was written, and set, in about 1982, but the occasional mention of the internet revealed it’s much more recent than that. None of the characters act or think like 21st century people.
What’s more, the plot is very slow-moving, with pages and pages of Carl’s repetitive and pathetic thoughts. Inexplicably, a female character (whose role in the main storyline is minimal) is the victim of a shocking crime that had absolutely no resolution or explanation and seemed entirely gratuitous.
This is a horrible little book and I should have followed my instincts and ditched it early on, rather than clinging on to see how the story resolved.
It felt very much like it was written, and set, in about 1982, but the occasional mention of the internet revealed it’s much more recent than that. None of the characters act or think like 21st century people.
What’s more, the plot is very slow-moving, with pages and pages of Carl’s repetitive and pathetic thoughts. Inexplicably, a female character (whose role in the main storyline is minimal) is the victim of a shocking crime that had absolutely no resolution or explanation and seemed entirely gratuitous.
This is a horrible little book and I should have followed my instincts and ditched it early on, rather than clinging on to see how the story resolved.