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Originally Posted by MickiTee
It doesn't really bother me. London is always changing. With constant developments and re-developments its pointless to get annoyed by inaccuracies in location details.
Having said that, there is one book written in the mid 1990's which really aggravates me. There's a scene which takes place at Heathrow Airport and what's described is logistically impossible. Its obvious that the author concerned knows nothing about how the airport is organised or operated. The web existed back in the 90's. How long would it have taken to check the details or phoned the Press Office there to check?
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Was the book a novel? If so, then it was a
fictionalized version of Heathrow that was organized and operated EXACTLY how the book said it was....
But seriously, I get it. If he bothered to refer to a real place, then there has to be a little effort to make the place seem real. Suspension of disbelief has to be encouraged and cultivated, not assumed.