Ben Aaronovitch

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> From: Wayne Morrison <tewok@storm-monkeys.com>
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> > polycarpa3@ckt.net said:
>> Have you read the third yet, "Whispers Underground"?
>
> I read that one last month.  I'm itching for the fourth, but I want to
> spread them out a little. I expect it'll be a month or two before I get
> to that one.

And I'm waiting for the fifth one to be released in November...

>> Aaronovitch is
>> doing something rather odd with the Peter's grammar, even making an
>> overt point of it, and I'm trying to figure out what he's doing.

> What I noticed in "Whispers" was that there seemed to be a lot of
> "me and <someone>" rather than "<someone> and
> I".  I didn't recall that
> being done in the previous two books, nor the ordering you pointed out,
> but I also read them with several months between each.  I was wondering
> if he was trying to make a point of where Peter grew up, and that he
> was using (reverting to?) the grammar of his past.

I've read all of the books when they were first released, so I'll need to go back to them, Sibyl. Wayne, I'm inclined to agree with you -- that he was reverting to a past way of speaking. I'm thinking that Nightingale's 'correction' is meant to be ironic, but I'll need to re-read it again.
>
>
>> Are you doing this series for the same reason that I am, CdL
>> recommending it his review column in the most recent F&SF?
>
No, Aaronovitch is a British author, and these books have a lot of press over here -- 'Rivers of London', the first one, was hyped by bookshops such as Waterstones (Aaronovitch used to work at one), Forbidden Planet and Foyles. The Hampshire library system got them in right away also.  They're very popular. In fact, Rivers of London, was one of the free books given away in this year's UK/Ireland World Book Night. Aaronovitch even was a finalist for the (British) National Book Award as Best New Writer. (He lost to Sarah Winman, author of 'When God was a Rabbit'.)

You might note that I refuse to use the American title for 'Rivers of London'. I can't understand why they changed it, considering how important rivers are to the book. Did they think that Americans can't understand that there's more than the Thames? ;)

Ellen

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