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...plot is hardly a consolation when the scenes on which it depends can hardly command a modicum of even vague interest from readers. True, the novel's pages bleed together, but Bleeding London is a wounded creature. A writer once said of Ezra Pound, "he is a great poet who has never written a great poem." In the world of lyric prose, Nicholson neither leads nor follows. Rather, he occupies that awkward region in between--usually above reproach, seldom awe-inspiring--where many decent writers languish in anonymity. Bleeding London is, well, bloody awful...
...pound Collins is the only one of the 115 registered sex offenders living or working in Cambridge identified by the board as a "Level Three," namely a "high risk to re-offend," according to Dillon...
...reminded by my research, though, it was only in 1970 that the British government, after countless centuries, decided that a pound sterling did not, in fact, consist of 20 shillings, each of which consisted in turn of 12 pence. Suddenly, the pound consisted of simply 100 pence--a system whose logic and simplicity must have struck the average English adult as positively disorienting...
...people I've interviewed during my stay in London, a biographer named Claire Tomalin, told me that to this day she converts a restaurant check back into the old pounds, shillings and pence so that she can, as she was raised to do, calculate the tip at two and six (or half a crown) for each pound...
Best of all, the four-pound eMate can run for an unprecedented 24 hours without recharging. Forget wondering whether your Toshiba will make it through Justice on batteries alone; you may only need to recharge the eMate once a week, even with heavy...