tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3377586.post116561870010133990..comments2024-03-18T02:43:02.621-04:00Comments on Original Content: You Don't Suppose This One Went Just A Little Over The Top?Gail Gauthierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01673131515563387968noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3377586.post-1165859668829359772006-12-11T12:54:00.000-05:002006-12-11T12:54:00.000-05:00I did wonder if there was some Dante action going ...I did wonder if there was some Dante action going on, but my knowledge of <I>The Inferno</I> is pretty limited. <BR/><BR/>I have to admit I enjoy a certain amount of rudeness. I was doubled up laughing over the extended and quite elegantly done fart joke at the beginning of the book. I'll be looking for <I>Henry Tumour</I>.Gail Gauthierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01673131515563387968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3377586.post-1165833374484986222006-12-11T05:36:00.000-05:002006-12-11T05:36:00.000-05:00Dear GailThanks for your amusing and perceptive re...Dear Gail<BR/><BR/>Thanks for your amusing and perceptive review of my first teenage novel, Hellbent. You're quite right that there is a lot of s***t in my book, perhaps too much. You're also right in thinking all the toilet stuff was a way of dragging teenage boys into a book that is, in fact, pretty demanding in terms of the linguistic and intellectual content. But I'd say I'm also writing as part of a long literary tradition - almost all of the vilest references are taken out of Dante, Rabelais or Shakespeare - and I'm not trying to put myself in the same category as those great writers, only to say that earthy humour, bodily comedy and good literature are not mutually exclusive.<BR/><BR/>But I genuinely did enjoy your review. hellbent has sunk without a trace in the US, and it's nice to know that someone has actually read it! My second teenage book, Henry Tumour, has just won a prize in the UK, and FGS are going to bring it out in the US. It's much less toilety that Hellbent, but still pretty rude.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com