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 The Third Person - Steve Mosby
Newest Review: ... this point onwards it starts getting a lot more complicated as Mosby throws in more and more ideas and they get tangled up in ... more  ... each other. Suddenly you discover that the story is set in some kind of future where the Police have been privatised and adverts are projected onto the moon. Uptown and downtown are more literal, as the cities have grown upwards and the ground has moved upwards with them. There’s also an idea of a written word so powerfully descriptive that it can put pictures in your head as effectively as any film.
These are all wonderful ideas on their own, but if you put them all together at once, they seem to get a little...more |
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The Third Person - Steve Mosby: Third Rate? (852 words)
by - written on 04/11/07 (Very useful, 99 readings)
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When you read as much as I do, you keep catching up with your favourite authors and have to try something or someone new. Unfortunately, this leads to judging a book by its cover in an attempt to find something interesting to read quickly and this can cause disappointment. That’s not exactly what happened in this case, as the book wasn’t too bad, but it did cause no small amount of confusion and certainly wasn’t what I expected on reading the back cover. The basic idea is a sound one; Jason Klein has lost his girlfriend, Amy. Quite literally – she went out one day hunting her own past and never returned, despite promising that she would. Jason has been ... Read the complete review
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