tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-879471721147949241.post3062180011805977040..comments2024-01-15T09:38:41.593+00:00Comments on Stories from The Edge: Amsterdam to London by Keren DavidEdge Writershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17472330166263235360noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-879471721147949241.post-31006896462357749242012-02-19T11:53:31.819+00:002012-02-19T11:53:31.819+00:00Totally agree that wrong details can really pull y...Totally agree that wrong details can really pull you out of a text. That's why I like to make places up!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08533913253403252799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-879471721147949241.post-61470048342490258532012-02-18T11:54:33.956+00:002012-02-18T11:54:33.956+00:00Oddly the book that I'd say really captures it...Oddly the book that I'd say really captures its setting is The Crow's Road by Iain Banks - oddly because the setting is an imaginary one, though layered over a real area of West Coast Scotland. It's possible to stand and look over the mud flats at Crinan and imagine Banks' deep sea loch and busy port there instead, or to look for the railway viaduct crossing Loch Fyne near Minard.maryomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18265044617480788043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-879471721147949241.post-45205577171481224902012-02-18T09:43:46.505+00:002012-02-18T09:43:46.505+00:00Yet another fantastic post on The Edge. Keren I ag...Yet another fantastic post on The Edge. Keren I agree whole heartedly about the importance of getting the settings right. It is the details that can ruin a story for me. I get the feeling that the writer hasn't bothered to do their research properly so I then ask myself what else haven't they bothered to find out and I lose faith in the book. Details can make a book as you so rightly point out.Ness Harbourhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07370427313780759711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-879471721147949241.post-75693135494877265982012-02-17T22:06:24.019+00:002012-02-17T22:06:24.019+00:00Great post! I agree, it's the smallest details...Great post! I agree, it's the smallest details that can jolt you out of a narrative - or pull you in with the familiar, of course. Often the small inaccuracies are things taken for granted (perhaps like your clinking glasses example) that you wouldn't necessarily think to check or research. I think US/UK differences are particularly troublesome since in many ways we're so similar, and yet we can be so different in unexpected ways.Beth Kemphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04182084510733977382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-879471721147949241.post-33518776362816046942012-02-17T18:19:25.253+00:002012-02-17T18:19:25.253+00:00I think I'll let John Green have his moment......I think I'll let John Green have his moment...Keren Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13121027210783177857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-879471721147949241.post-28552712054276084652012-02-17T15:40:49.344+00:002012-02-17T15:40:49.344+00:00I quite agree about settings which is why I have s...I quite agree about settings which is why I have spent so much time on Hayling Island, walking and walking all the settings for my novels. Lovely post - I love Amsterdam - will have to read that book now.<br />And isn't it time you set a teen crime novel in Amsterdam, Keren!Miriam Halahmyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17841164190139769948noreply@blogger.com