nocto

A philosophical experiment to find out how things are? Things in the sense of paperclips, streetlights, computers, wheelbarrows etc. Fun idea but after initially finding it quite good I quickly got pretty bored with it. Not helped by the fact that it's a translation from French and seems heavily overloaded with romance language type words (is it ok when translating to convert things to more regular English? This translator didn't seem to think so.) as well as anecdotes that don't really work in translation.

Borrowed.

This series is really good anyway but this book in particular is excellent. Growing out of the case a couple of books back in the series it investigates what happens after a rape trial is completed and as the title suggests (so I'm not giving too much away) the defendant is released as the jury's decision doesn't stand up to appeal. Lots of character development among the ongoing players.

Purchased on 28th November 2005.