Title: Awful
Product review: I was very much looking forward to reading Carr, having heard good things about him. But if this is the best he can do, I suggest you look elsewhere. I know I will.Carr's writing is terrible--he badly needs an editor willing to sacrifice at least half of his overblown prose. And from a historic perspective, The Angel of Darkness is a mess. His characters' actions and speech are totally unconvincing; in fact, Carr's only concession to period speech seems to be having the narrator substitute "what" for "that," as in "the book WHAT I hated." The first time he used it was annoying; by the four hundredth, I shut the book, permanently.If you're a fan of the genre but prefer your books written and researched somewhat intelligently, try Charles Palliser, or Arturo Perez Reverte.
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