19 Feb
2001
19 Feb
'01
3:52 a.m.
From: Tavia Chalcraft tavia@btinternet.com
While I quite enjoy authorial mouthpiecing, if I'm recalling the right piece, then I thought the background description in this was a touch
OTT --
I seem to recall skipping quite a bit while reading, and mentally substituting a cross between the seedier end of the docks in Portsmouth (where I was brought up) and those in Lisbon (pusher-laden).
The style was a deliberate pastiche of William Gibson (Neuromancer etc), and he does tend to be adjective-happy. Personally I rather like his style, very dense and claustrophobic, and far better than overly sparse description.
Neil