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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
One more vote here for the original title. Rivers of London made sense on more than one level. Midnight Riot would have been more appropriate for a Thorne Smith book.
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Originally Posted by pdurrant
I think it's more that the publishers thought that a title including the location, "London" would put off US readers.
Rather strange. For fantasy readers in the US, I suspect that "London" would be an attraction.
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^This. The publishers completely underestimated their readership if they really think Londo is a "turn off". The god awful covers aren't helping their case either. I love the original, British series covers. These silhouetted, "action film" American ones are ugly with a capital "U".
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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
It's our lousy sense of geography. Most Americans have no idea what part of Brazil London is in.
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^This makes me both laugh and cry because sadly it's true. Geography has completely gone by the wayside in American education.