[books 2009] Patricia Cornwell & History of Florida

[inulro]

48.Point of Origin by Patricia Cornwell

Having finished the Kathy Reichs books, and with only two Karin Slaughters left, I decided to check out the competition.

I spent the first half taking back every bad thing I ever said about Reichs and Slaughter (while still admitting that Reichs didn't even try with her last book). Eventually I got sucked in enough by the mystery to finish the damn thing.

I didn't like the writing; I didn't like the characters (even measured against Slaughter's characters who drive me nuts), but most unforgiveably in a detective novel, I completely failed to care Who Dun It.

Even worse, there is a basic error in converting imperial units of measure to metric. Most of the US audience might not pick up on it, but the rest of the world knows that 26 inches (a human femur) does not equal fifty-five millimetres.

I think I'll be making my way through the Dresden Files, the Wallander books and the Falco series before I come back to another of these.

49. A New History of Florida edited by Michael Gannon
Basic survey textbook from the beginning to 1996. Interesting enough, but didn't leave me wanting to know as much more as these things usually do; whether that's the fault of the book or the subject matter really isn't that interesting, I'm not well informed enough to know.

Comments

Re: Cornwell Urgghhhhhhh

[dghaem.livejournal.com]

Ah the comment I was referring to seemed to be along the lines of 'lesbians write the most gruesome murder scenes'

Re: Cornwell Urgghhhhhhh

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

I gather this was all whipped up into a feud by the media, but it never really was.