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Not Precious. Not nearly as good as number one detective agency series

Wondering about the author’s motive. I have read the “First Ladies” books, and found them delightful, and then I got hooked into this, the Isabel Dalhousie series. These are also—or can be—delightful, but the author seems to use them as a vehicle for the explication of his own philosophical musings (he has said, in an interview, that it is this character with whom he identifies most), and seems unable to write even a paragraph that has some action and plot without the main character—Isabel--going off into a lengthy contemplation of some topic that the unfolding story reminds her of. Her reflections take up far more time than the actual plot, and they are not particularly profound, although references to great philosophers and epistimologists abound; in fact, they are barely enough to cause the reader to think “oh, just what I’ve always thought myself,” while waiting to get back to the actual story. And they go on and on and ON, frequently crowding out the actual plot. I genuinely enjoy these books, but I end up leaving them for sometimes months at a time, simply because I become bored, even while appreciating the character and her life. I generally return to them, but this one has rather defeated me, and this morning I picked up a book by another favorite author who is capable of painting masterly and involving pictures of her settings while telling wonderful stories acted out by compelling characers, and I suddenly noted the difference between the two. I recently read the interview with McCall Smith that I mention above, and learned that he writes with amazing rapidity and evidently churns out books by the dozen in very little time, for which top price is charged. The thing is, he is NOT Dostoevsky, and I feel rather irritated that I have spent as much money as I have on his books, but that is what happens when one gets hooked on e-readers. My point: he’s just not that good, and I sometimes think that his lengthy musings on the inner lives of his characters serves as a foil for his somewhat ordinary writing ability. As for me, I learn more from a good story that evokes my own inner landscapes.

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