Strike

[bobbie22]

Did anyone watch strike lethal white? Did anyone find it difficult to follow ? I did. But maybe it’s just me.

[allenlondon]

"He can’t afford a specially adapted automobile." J K Rowling nonsense!

As an amputee of 15 years (perhaps a Person of Leg), I can drive any automatic. If it was my right leg that was missing, it would be a bit more awkward, having to use my left leg for the accelerator and brake, but I would have soon got used to it.

But a left-leg amputee has NO bother driving an auto!

[Mamyalynne]

You do know this is fiction of course.

[Mamyalynne]

//Strike sets a successful trap to catch the Shacklewell Ripper and drives all night to arrive at Robin's wedding ceremony at the end of the novel.//

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cormoran_Strike

[dannyk13]

// to arrive at Robin's wedding ceremony at the end of the novel.//
I have sen that already in a tv episode, but it was not the last episode in the series.

[allenlondon]

Stick to the point, mamya. You do NOT need a 'specially adapted' car to drive it, if you are a single-leg amputee. I am qualified as an expert!

You do need a specially adapted car for other 'disabilities' or missing bits, but definitely not for having lost one leg.

Rowling, I find, mixes nonsense (as in Harry Potter) with reality (as in her crime and novel writing). Otherwise, good luck to her.

A

[dannyk13]

Allen, it is fiction.Do you expect everything to be as it would be in real life?

[naomi24]

I like Strike - but I've never read the books. Will those two ever get together?

In my opinion, J K Rowling is quite brilliant. I adore Harry Potter. All life lies therein. :o)

[Mamyalynne]

The point I am making is that the character drives, whether he (the character) drives what you would like him to is absolutely way off the point.

We can read character descriptions all the time and mutter 'I'd have done better than that' - we didn't though did we?

[allenlondon]

And if she wrote that Strike couldn’t use a phone because of his disability? Just swallow, and say ‘novelist’s licence?

[Mamyalynne]

You're being ridiculous now.

[BAKERS DOZEN]

I think he's gorgeous and I'm old enough to remember his mum and dad David Burke and Anna Calder-Marshall who are both actors.