StillStunned
Mr Sticky
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Moving on to a new topic: recently I've been reading some George Gently detective novels. There are 46 of them in total, and I have a collection of the first 4 on my e-reader. They were written (and are set) in the mid-1950s, and wow! does it show. The casual xenophobia, but mostly the constant descriptions of smoking.
But at the same time there are sensual undertones. References to sex, quite graphic descriptions of female beauty, prostitution. I can't say whether it's representative, but for me it feels a decade or so ahead of its time, before that kind of thing became acceptable in mainstream fiction.
But at the same time there are sensual undertones. References to sex, quite graphic descriptions of female beauty, prostitution. I can't say whether it's representative, but for me it feels a decade or so ahead of its time, before that kind of thing became acceptable in mainstream fiction.
