tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3377586.post116899661131247966..comments2024-03-27T02:13:13.079-04:00Comments on Original Content: The Use Of Obscenities In Nick and Norah's Infinite PlaylistGail Gauthierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01673131515563387968noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3377586.post-1169071197644158452007-01-17T16:59:00.000-05:002007-01-17T16:59:00.000-05:00Oh, sure. And I did feel it made the two main char...Oh, sure. And I did feel it made the two main characters sound too much alike at the beginning of the book. It might have been interesting to have only one of them use that kind of language.<BR/><BR/>If teenagers who live the way Nick and Nora live, clubbing, performing with a rock band, tend to use that language all the time, then it is probably appropriate to use the f-bomb as much as the authors did to create that real world. The problem comes about because so many of us (and probably a lot of teen readers, too) aren't familiar with that kind of world so we don't know whether or not this is the real deal that we're reading.Gail Gauthierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01673131515563387968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3377586.post-1169064338325289512007-01-17T15:05:00.000-05:002007-01-17T15:05:00.000-05:00I thought the use of the f-bomb was excessive, par...I thought the use of the f-bomb was excessive, particularly having the character of Nick say it 26 times on one page — and one third of the page is blank. It does contribute to the edgy feel of the book, but maybe it could have still had that effect with just a little less, ahem, language.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com