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Originally Posted by Hitch
Y'know, at some point in time, I just stopped being able to read them. The entire "I'm leaving Kinsey in the 80's so that she doesn't have the net and computers worth a damn and smartphones" felt...forced to me, like "oh, it's too hard to write mysteries now that people can immediately call someone, even when trapped in a dumpster with a rabid pitbull" sort of thing.
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I thought it was lazy, too; Grafton couldn’t be bothered to keep up with law enforcement technology or work out new plots given new capabilities for police, victim and criminal. The result was mysteries that were neither current nor classic/historical, just dated. They were stale.