[LMB] authors goofs that bug me

[Peter H. Granzeau]

At 08:35 AM 10/1/2007, Kevin Kennedy wrote:
>Decades ago Janet Dailey was working on a series of romances-one set 
>in each of the 50 states. On a dare and for curiousity, I read _Indy 
>Man_ since it's set in my hometown of Indianapolis. The guy is a 
>race car driver in town for the Indianapolis 500. The woman is the 
>daughter of a wealthy doctor. Supposedly Dad works at City Hospital 
>and they live in an exclusive west side neighborhood.(The racetrack 
>is on the west side) Now there are over 10 hospitals in town, 
>several of them grouped into Indiana University Medical Center. Now 
>if she didn't want to name a specific hospital, it would have grated 
>less if he'd worked at the Medical Center or some such. And the old 
>expensive, exclusive, desirable neighborhoods are on the Northside. 
>And this was even more noticible 30 years ago. She probably got some 
>race details wrong too, but I'm not that knowlegable about race trivia.
>Two points that aren't that hard to check, and they still bug me.

I think the ultimate example was the book set in Williamsburg, 
VA.  The heroine ran from Wmsbg to the sea, and was about to throw 
herself off a cliff into the sea.

Williamsburg is maybe 50 miles from the sea, separated from it by the 
York River and the Chesapeake Bay.   All of the land is low-lying 
(barely above sea level  The nearest cliff is in the Appalachian 
mountains, a hundred or more miles in the other direction.


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Regards, Pete
pgranzeau at cox.net