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From: BillGill <tonisdad215@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Ben Aaronovitch "The Masquerades of Spring"
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2024 08:29:10 -0600
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On 11/9/2024 12:25 PM, Robert Woodward wrote:
> In article <vgnr38$3qmno$1@dont-email.me>,
>   BillGill <tonisdad215@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I just got my copy of the latest Rivers of London
>> novella.  This one isn't, strictly speaking, a
>> Rivers of London.  The book steps well back in
>> time into the 1920s.  Nightingale travels to
>> New York City to trace the source of a magic
>> saxophone. Here he meets the world of Harlem
>> and Jazz.  He doesn't meet any of the river gods
>> of New York. I don't think that the book is quite
>> up to the standard of Aaronovitch's earlier works,
>> but it is a fairly good read in any case.
>>
> 
> IMHO, this was also a P. G. Wodehouse pastiche. A lot of the charm of
> the Rivers of London series is Peter Grant's snark. Gussie, being a
> literary relative of Wodehouse's dim viewpoint characters, is snark
> deficient.
> 
>> Note:  My copy of the book is a collectable.  It
>> is signed and numbered.  I didn't realize that
>> until I got it.
> 
> IIRC, the entire print run was signed and ones that weren't numbered
> were lettered (those were more expensive).
> 
I think one of the biggest problems with Masquerades was the
lack of Peter.

Bill