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May 09, 2012 12:43PM
Just a quick note -- author is from the UK so some of the words are spelled the UK way. I don't hardly notice it anymore since I read several UK authors. :-)
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Since I'm a kiwi, I'm used to the UK way, although his reference to "miles" has puzzled me. Since I thought they used metric in the UK?I'm about 25% of the way through, and enjoying it so far.
Angela, the UK is still in a weird transition state between metric and imperial measurements. Beer is still served in pints, but wine is sold in 125ml, 175ml and 250ml glasses. Feet and inches are still generally used to measure a person's height, but weight is increasingly measured in kilos.Miles are used almost exclusively to measure distances travelled by car - all the speed limits are in mph and signposts give distance in miles. Runners and cyclists often prefer to talk in terms of kilometres though.
We're a messy country.
Aha, we in NZ are almost completely metric - although thanks to my miniature mail art hobby and amount of online US friends, I think better in inches than in cms.I have finished this book now, and I really enjoyed it. Some bits were a little predictable (the joint identity of Trinity and Esse, for example) and the ending was a wee bit corny, but I enjoyed it. The unexpected nature of the plot was like a rollercoaster - albeit a rather bumpy one interspersed with periods of calm. So maybe more like living in an earthquake-riddled city - long periods of not much of the action (ie: talking, working etc) interspersed with quick jolting patches of action that get the adrenalin racing and the pages turning. Or maybe it's really too early in the morning for me to be writing coherant reviews!
I really enjoyed this book. It's so different than anything else I've read recently. It made me laugh out loud. And as Tamara pointed out, it did have large chunks of dialogue. Some may not like that, but I love dialogue (when it's done well and I think this is). There was just such a freshness to this story that I thought the dialogue gave a lot of insight into the characters which made me enjoy it even more. And I absolutely loved the ending. :-)Andrew -- that's cool info to know. I thought it was all metric in the UK. Thanks for clarifying!
I loved this book. I thought it was so nice to have a male perspective as a 'chick lit' hero. It was a typical chick lit book, I felt, only with a man in the forefront.
