Inconsistancies / poor research in novels Grrrrr
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This winds me up.
I like a good thriller / whodunnit and I thought I'd have a look at Peter James' books so picked a few up while trailing SWMBO around the charity shops.
I'm not going to be able to read them they're so bad so I'm giving them back next time we go to town.
I read one yesterday.
it's set in a rambling old spooky chateau somewhere in France.
Killers after young family in dark etc.
First of all the killer manages to make the battery of the family's car go flat. Not disconnected, flat, it clicks when he tries the ignition. The car is locked, new we are told with 3000 on the clock. When he goes outside again it has vanished.
Now our hero gets himself a kitchen knife and in the pitch dark cuts through an inch thick armoured cable exposing the bare wires with which he electrifies the metal banister thus killing one of the killers. he takes his shotgun and goes downstairs to where the other killer is wounded after he toppled a stuffed deer on her earlier. Except he now has the gun which he covers her with as he retrieves the shotgun.
Is it me? SWMBO says i should chill and enjoy the plot but Dean Koontz doesn't make mistakes like that even with demons from another dimension!
I like a good thriller / whodunnit and I thought I'd have a look at Peter James' books so picked a few up while trailing SWMBO around the charity shops.
I'm not going to be able to read them they're so bad so I'm giving them back next time we go to town.
I read one yesterday.
it's set in a rambling old spooky chateau somewhere in France.
Killers after young family in dark etc.
First of all the killer manages to make the battery of the family's car go flat. Not disconnected, flat, it clicks when he tries the ignition. The car is locked, new we are told with 3000 on the clock. When he goes outside again it has vanished.
Now our hero gets himself a kitchen knife and in the pitch dark cuts through an inch thick armoured cable exposing the bare wires with which he electrifies the metal banister thus killing one of the killers. he takes his shotgun and goes downstairs to where the other killer is wounded after he toppled a stuffed deer on her earlier. Except he now has the gun which he covers her with as he retrieves the shotgun.
Is it me? SWMBO says i should chill and enjoy the plot but Dean Koontz doesn't make mistakes like that even with demons from another dimension!
Edited by Upinflames on Wednesday 20th March 15:34
Edited by Upinflames on Wednesday 20th March 15:34
No, I get annoyed about stuff like that too, and my main bug-bear is American authors who don't do the basic research when one of their characters comes to the UK. £100 notes, old crumbling cottages that have waste disposal in the sink, that sort of stuff. Annoyingly it's often big-name authors who can easily afford to pay someone to check their facts. Like Tom Clancy in Rainbow Six, who has his group land at RAF Northolt and travel south, yet still arrive at Hereford.
I haven't seen one yet that's stopped me finishing the book, though.
I haven't seen one yet that's stopped me finishing the book, though.
Edited by droopsnoot on Wednesday 20th March 18:27
droopsnoot said:
No, I get annoyed about stuff like that too, and my main bug-bear is American authors who don't do the basic research when one of their characters comes to the UK. £100 notes, old crumbling cottages that have waste disposal in the sink, that sort of stuff. Annoyingly it's often big-name authors who can easily afford to pay someone to check their facts. Like Tom Clancy in Rainbow Six, who has his group land at RAF Northolt and travel south, yet still arrive at Hereford.
I haven't seen one yet that's stopped me finishing the book, though.
We have £100 notes in Scotland. FREEDOM! I haven't seen one yet that's stopped me finishing the book, though.
Edited by droopsnoot on Wednesday 20th March 18:27
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