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kirklandscott 's review for:
The Devil's Company
by David Liss
Skipped past the first 2. Didn't realize it was a series. Just tried a random book based in 1722 due to my new found interest in the period. The mystery was nice, the intrigue was better. The number of characters was a little hard to handle, as well as the fact that every character was involved in the intrigue at some level. It was very few who weren't involved. And those had not much of a role.
I mentally matched the Doctor with Samson while Benjamin might as well have been the emotive detective-Alex Cross. Hard to keep the idea that it was really 18th century London in mind because this could have happened in 1822, or 1922. Possibly even in 2022 without much descriptive differences.
I like that the mega-corporation was highlighted because it makes a good case to look at how large Wal-mart is today and compare it's practices with those of the East India Company as well as the Government's interest in large companies. The words, "too large to fail" come to mind.
I mentally matched the Doctor with Samson while Benjamin might as well have been the emotive detective-Alex Cross. Hard to keep the idea that it was really 18th century London in mind because this could have happened in 1822, or 1922. Possibly even in 2022 without much descriptive differences.
I like that the mega-corporation was highlighted because it makes a good case to look at how large Wal-mart is today and compare it's practices with those of the East India Company as well as the Government's interest in large companies. The words, "too large to fail" come to mind.