Re: The Old Favorite

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.

> 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.
> ...
> "The General Library is where me and Lesley do most of our studying."

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.


> Are you doing this series for the same reason that I am, CdL
> recommending it his review column in the most recent F&SF?

Nope. I heard about these books from Our Bernard maybe two years ago.
They'd been sitting on my Big List until late last year, when a birthday
gift certificate allowed me to get the first.

Wayne

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