Not having read this one but having followed the on-list discussion (not afraid of being spoiled; the spoilers seem to have saved me a good ten quid, not to mention the wine or whisky I'd have needed to wash the taste away) I suspect the issues include the lack of any real impact of Gerald's death and the appallingly anachronistic use of first names between people of radically different class backgrounds.
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Date: 2011-01-27 07:47 pm (UTC)