--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Juri Nummelin"
<juri.nummelin@...> wrote:
> My dad (who once turned me to Chandler and Ross Macdonald) read his
first
> Connelly after my several recommendations. He said the narrative
drive is
> very good, but he said he noted some errors or implausibilities. I
think he
> read City of Bones, which, according to him, is based on the fact
that the
> place from which the kid's bones are found is very hard to get to.
Then some
> kids just happen to be there, like they had no trouble at all! My dad
> thought this took some plausibility off.
>
> He also had problems with a bullet getting caught in the barrel of
someone
> else's gun.
I didn't find those implausible, but plausibility depends on what the
reader knows, obviously. My knowledge about weaponry is zero. Somebody
with such knowledge (there was a recent post about that) will be
sensitive to any anomaly.
Best,
mrt
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