Thanks, Jim, for your comments. It seems, though, that the things
you mention are ones a Finnish reader just can't know. Ranks in
LAPD? Intersection of two streets in Los Angeles? So we are only
left with a place that's said to be almost impossible to get into
and then there just are some kids playing. (Well, kids are
smaller than grown-ups and could possibly get there easier than
Bosch or others.)
I've come lately to think that the whole question on
improbalities, implausibilities and impossibilities is a question
of different types of temper. Some people care for those (like my
dad, who's at times almost maniacally obsessive about errors) and
errors and others can ruin the reading/viewing experience for
them. As for myself, I notice them and can rave about a person in
a book or film behaving against his/her character in important
plot points, but I'm willing to give books/movies some slack. And
there are people who just don't notice these kinds of things and
even if they do (or if they are told about them), they shrug and
say: "I didn't think of it that way."
Sorry, if I seem a bit unfocused - I'm heavily hungover at the
moment.
Juri
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