A real tour de force, kudos on writing it , there's no way on God's earth I could ever attempt such a thing.
It was very hard going reading it in one session , easier in single Chapters as you have been doing and definitely more readable in sections, several of which I recall reading from you posting as Chapters.
It comes across to me like James Joyce's Ulysses semi-autobiographical and with smidgeons of "The Goons" here and there in style.
It needs more proof reading as there are times when plurals are needed for example, and did you you mean "donor" kebab rather than doner kebab and Dennis Nilson is Dennis Nilsen.
I'm going for a lie down as I'm not used to reading quite so much in one sitting.
Thanks Alan - really appreciate you reading it! Never meant to be done in one session - it's about 150 pages long!
Yes, the donor is a pun - for Lord Alli, the corrupt gaylord donor.
It's not totally proof read so thanks for the NilsEn. Any others you spotted, I'd appreciate an email (if you've time).
The structure - especially how I used my poetry sequences and the factual teaching account (transition into) at the end - is what I'm very keen to hear, on how a reader finds these.
Brilliant stuff Paul, I thoroughly enjoyed it. I immersed myself in it at work having printed it and put it in a file, making me appear to be working far harder than usual. By laughing at this great phrase: “…more lethal than a Mohammedan force-fed pork scratchings” it’s possible I may have given the game away! We need a paperback version very soon please.
A great pleasure! Yes, I’m sure it is virtually impossible these days. But please stick with it, and I’ll see you in Hatchard’s for the signing! Hopefully things, publishers included, will get back to normal quickly after the civil war.
P'raps he was. Or she was. Hitherto, the best I could come up with is that as he's also Lord Greystoke, maybe his beard wouldn't do anything so vulgar as to grow.
Perfectly readable for me. Cathartic, I expect, in the writing.
As to 'Do Fleas Have Testicles?', I shall add this to my List of Conundrums, just underneath 'Why Doesn't Tarzan Have a Beard?'
Thanks Alison.
Never thought about the Tarzan one! Maybe he was trans?
Paul,
A real tour de force, kudos on writing it , there's no way on God's earth I could ever attempt such a thing.
It was very hard going reading it in one session , easier in single Chapters as you have been doing and definitely more readable in sections, several of which I recall reading from you posting as Chapters.
It comes across to me like James Joyce's Ulysses semi-autobiographical and with smidgeons of "The Goons" here and there in style.
It needs more proof reading as there are times when plurals are needed for example, and did you you mean "donor" kebab rather than doner kebab and Dennis Nilson is Dennis Nilsen.
I'm going for a lie down as I'm not used to reading quite so much in one sitting.
Let me know what you think.
Alan
Thanks Alan - really appreciate you reading it! Never meant to be done in one session - it's about 150 pages long!
Yes, the donor is a pun - for Lord Alli, the corrupt gaylord donor.
It's not totally proof read so thanks for the NilsEn. Any others you spotted, I'd appreciate an email (if you've time).
The structure - especially how I used my poetry sequences and the factual teaching account (transition into) at the end - is what I'm very keen to hear, on how a reader finds these.
Brilliant stuff Paul, I thoroughly enjoyed it. I immersed myself in it at work having printed it and put it in a file, making me appear to be working far harder than usual. By laughing at this great phrase: “…more lethal than a Mohammedan force-fed pork scratchings” it’s possible I may have given the game away! We need a paperback version very soon please.
Thanks so much for reading! Really pleasing it's been read. I'm trying to get it published, but it's very tough.
A great pleasure! Yes, I’m sure it is virtually impossible these days. But please stick with it, and I’ll see you in Hatchard’s for the signing! Hopefully things, publishers included, will get back to normal quickly after the civil war.
P'raps he was. Or she was. Hitherto, the best I could come up with is that as he's also Lord Greystoke, maybe his beard wouldn't do anything so vulgar as to grow.