I wonder if anyone else has the extreme aversion to flashbacks that I do. I recently rejected a Reginald Hill novel because he kept skipping back and forth--much as I love his style, I decided to just skip it.
I once skipped 70 pages of flashback, and completed the novel without harm.
So tonight when I put a hold on the new Elizabeth George, What Came Before He Shot Her, I wondered if I would stick it, once the book was in my hands. Sounds like one long flashback to me. Of course, I have lots of time to chew on that conundrum--I am something like 190th on the list--unless I opt for the large print copy--and I hate those--then I think I would only be 11th.
I always complain about George's novels, but that has not stopped me from reading them all. Sigh.
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I hate flashbaks too! Especially when they're intercut with the regular story but in italics or some other annoying typesetting.
I have a whole bunch of George novels I got for a really good deal at goodwill, but have only read one or two of them. would you recommend going in order? What is it you like best about her books?
Jen, I always recommend reading a series in order. I like George's main characters, beginning of course with Inspector Thomas Lynley, who in the English tradition (though I know George isn't English, yet she keeps to the genre) is an aristocrat reminiscent of Peter Wimsey. I like her attention to detail. I get immersed in her books, but still find myself railing against them.
Hee! I forgot about your order fetish. For what it's worth, I like to read them in order too, when possible. Now that I think of it, I'm pretty sure I've read the first two of her series (in order). I've seen plenty of the Lynley mysteries on OPB, though!
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