I guess this is aimed at Wilkie Collins! I can't stand mysteries or thrillers where everything is resolved based on facts that were never presented in the course of the story. Apparently while we were watching an investigation of the Moonstone Robbery, all this other action that was never alluded to or mentioned but completely explains everything was going on! To me, it's deus ex machina used to extreme and poor effect. And it drives me crazy. Just so you all know.
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shareYou're right. I meant Wilkie Collins. I think I just had Dickens on the brain because I'd been watching Bleak House.
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Actually,Collins novel plays very fair with the readers .
That's not true either. I tried repeatedly to get past the first 50 pages of the Woman in White and I just couldn't. When every chapter ends in such a blatant cliffhanger, it disrupts the narrative flow.
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It was originaly written for serialisation in a magazine ,thats why there all those cliff-hangers.Actually I think thats a good thing,It is well worth sticking with.
I only got to page 2 of TWiW. I was so annoyed that I'd worked it out that I couldn't continue. That was 99p down the bog.
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I just saw it. The plot was pretty ridiculous. VERY Victorian.
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