>So shoot me.
If you insist, but first let me urge you to get
counselling.
????
I guess it's a matter of taste. I have to admit that I think
the concept of a Rolls turned into a pickup is a hoot - the
snobbish, rich, European upper-class icon reshaped into the
American blue-collar icon, emblematic of McGee's 'fallen'
condition and social attitudes; the fact that it's a little
unlikely didn't bother me. Fiction is fiction. (But then I
admit that a book I had published a few years ago ended with
the witch riding off to Walpurgisnacht celebrations on a
Harley Davidson, so clearly I am quite, quite mad.)
I suppose that the attitude to life and politics is
sympathetic enough that it doesn't bother me as a narrative
viewpoint. Perhaps this Macdonald also babbles. Con
brio.
>eccentric only for eccentricity's sake
Probably eccentricity is allowed to the extent that it
contributes to the whole. (Though in more practical terms
here, eccentricity good, inhuman, smug self-confidence bad,
as Inspector Lestrade keeps reminding us.) In McGee's case,
his own damaged-goods personality seems to resemble and in
many cases precede that of an awful lot of PIs, and in recent
years police detectives too; it lengthens the odds against
them, gives them more complex motivations, complicates the
plot... Yes.
I'll try another couple and see how I feel then.
Marianne
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