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Review + Mild Mild Mild Spoilers
Well, I finished it yesterday evening, and I was quite pleased with it. As pure entertainment: perfect, brilliant, wonderful, all those otehr nice words. I couldn't put the damn thing down and I loved every minute of it. On a deeper/literary side: good, but could be better (barely). For instance, I felt that I was kind of being clobbered over the head with meaning a few times, but this could be due to my highschool upbringing where the teacher thought you were dumb if you couldn't write a six page essay on the symbolism of Melville picking the name "Ishmael". To explain a bit more, the bit after Cheryl told David about the painting, and he has his little AHA moment just seemed to explain a little too much. I know this is picky, but well, I'm picky.
Having said that, I want to repeat that I really loved the book, and I'll probably end up rereading it over the summer.
On another note, I chuckled a few times while reading about the character's online adventures, just because I knew the author from an online message board. Also, are billykids real? Please tell me they aren't.
Oh yeah, you asked how it travelled. Honestly, change a couple of small details, and it could have been set in Dallas. Granted, I think spending time on this board helped that a bit (i.e., I know what a punter is and what 'taking the piss' means), though I was still caught on a couple words (for instance, you only find tarmac at an airport in the US). The story seemed pretty universal and I think anyone would enjoy it, regardless of where they live.
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