Yup. Or how many old books/suspense movies made a point of the villain cutting the telephone lines to the house so no one could call for help? I remember this in an old Dick Francis mystery.
One of the things I liked about Dick Francis's books is that they were always contemporary--if you got one of his books in the 60s, it had 60s technology, if it was written in the 80s or 90s, ditto. The older ones actually wear better, it's the ones that are just a few years out of date that are jarring, as you mentioned with the cell phones.
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Date: 2006-08-01 01:33 am (UTC)One of the things I liked about Dick Francis's books is that they were always contemporary--if you got one of his books in the 60s, it had 60s technology, if it was written in the 80s or 90s, ditto. The older ones actually wear better, it's the ones that are just a few years out of date that are jarring, as you mentioned with the cell phones.