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« on: March 22, 2010, 12:07:42 AM »
First let me say I DO like the book. It's a fun read. But I'm not that far into it and I've already spotted a few things that caught my attention as flaws.
1. Manhole covers cannot bend. They handle the weight of several tons a day. I know Spidy is strong but this is physically impossible and by that I mean breaks the laws of physics. They'll only bend if heated, otherwise the most you can do (and this is also improbable) is snap and crack.
2. Mary Jane wanting a car to get to Atlantic City.
Okay. Most real New Yorkers don't own cars, period. Not just because they're expensive to maintain but also because of New York City traffic. Have you ever tried to drive in New York City? Only tourists are foolish enough to do that.
The train to Atlantic City from Penn station is NOT unreliable. And it leaves almost every forty minutes to two hours. The trains in New York City are more reliable than the trains anywhere else in the state. Any New Yorker will tell you this. Getting out of New York City is easy. It's the trains coming in that tend to get delayed. The longest delayed train out of New York City I've experienced is forty minutes (that was in an emergency situation). Usually the Penn station delays are about ten minutes (and for a New Yorker that's a long time). Now if you're leaving upstate New York to get back down to New York City the delay to get down into the city can be up to five hours.
I say this as someone who grew up on Long Island just a county out of New York City for the first twenty five years of her life and moved to the rural upper, upper part of upstate New York three years ago and as someone dependant on public transportation.
Mary Jane broke the illusion of a legitimate New York City resident. A real New Yorker would know the traffic in the city (if you're going by car) is more of a hindrance and more unreliable to get somewhere on time than any express train out of Penn Station.
I'm sure I'll find other little flaws but as a New Yorker these grabbed my attention.