and the beginning prison scenes; I didn't believe those at all.
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it felt like someone who'd learned about prison from Stephen King novels.
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it's a work of genius compared to Nevewhere though. That's a truly terrible book.
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I wrote about Neverwhere a while back: http://www.hoodedutilitarian.com/2012/06/i-just-live-here/ …
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As a kid I was very proud of myself for thinking "Hey this book is really a TV show" and turning out to be right
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Also yeah Bitchy Fiancée as synecdoche for the Life of Conformity Left Behind is probably a trope that should just die
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But yeah it's a pretty incompletely done adaptation from a script, a lot of the missing interiority to the chars is bc of that
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Characters just defined by how they look and sound w all the nuance left to the actors to work out
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The Croup and Vandemar villains especially (so so tired of these guys, who it seems became a stick character very quickly)
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Anyway i think this book mainly suffers from aging poorly, at the time it was a lot of people's first exposure to urban fantasy as a genre
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A more innocent time when Lamia being a vampire or Islington being a fallen angel might've surprised someone
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A pre-Guy Ritchie era when the snark and profanity infused idea of the affable Cockney gangster hadn't utterly replaced whatever it replaced
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