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Old 05-25-2016, 10:13 PM   #24102
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I finished Jasper Fforde's third "Kazam" novel this morning. Good overall, but there are a couple of headscratcher goofs:

- In the first book, the narrator began her six-year indenture at the age of twelve and has been driving since the age of thirteen. In the third book, both happen when she's fourteen; she drives herself to begin her four-year indenture.

- "Giga" is explained as meaning "million" in the same passage where four times twenty-six is calculated to be fifty-two. I guess this could be a matter of the speakers being terrible at math, but it's still weird.

- Are the Geneva Convention (book one) and the Genevieve Convention (book two) different agreements, or is one of those misnamed?

I'm thinking about tackling the four Independence Day books next - the three originals (collected in an omnibus), followed by the prequel to next month's new movie. I've had a peek at the prequel. It seems to start with the 1947 crash, stop off for a chapter or two during the first movie, and then settle into covering What Happened After. I could skip straight to that book, but I'm curious to see whether the prequel and sequel to the first movie are retained as canon.

Then again, I have some packing to do tonight and tomorrow before going out of town for the weekend. I may not have much time for reading, so I might just slack off with a couple of electronic graphic novels.
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