A definite improvement. Turn to page three at see the nude picture of my latest Chinese wife (19)to understand why I’m always buckled with a brang even in my ninth decade.
I’m sure Twenty has shares in Hewlett Packard.
The amount of hoops I’m having to go through to get me scanner working.
2 Driver downloads, 3 restarts, and another one coming in a couple of minutes.
And furthermore,even a thick BUFFALO like me knows full well that not in a million years would Foreign Affairs have given him the information he requested, nor could it legally have done so. Not the sharpest knife in the drawer I’d venture to surmise.
“Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow Fonder is the most important contribution that has been made to fictional literature in the twenty first century. . . It is likely that there is no one writing English today that could parallel Mr. Major’s feat, and it is also likely that few would care to do it were it capable. — Books of the Century; New York Times review, February 2009″.
He rubbed you up the wrong way, eh, 20?
Perhaps if you dropped out to his clinic, he might rub you the right way.
Dunno if happy endings are extra, though.
Pity poor Colin Coyle, it’s a dirty job and someone’s got to do it. And it must be difficult coming to terms with a name like that – prophylactic intraintestinal devices come to mind.
Everyone else:
Is the review of the first book anywhere to be read? I want to know the out-of-context “crude comic genius” reference.
Granted, he’s being very subtly sarcastic, but he uses the sentence “Comic genius!”
Awful eejit, but at least Hachette will be obliged to print “*stated in sarcastic tone” after the quote.
Looking around for that first review, I came across a reference to a piece written in the Sunday Times by Colin Coyle entitled “Blogger fails to click as novelist: Twenty Major has minor sales” on 23 March 2008.
Who can say he didn’t have an agenda now?
“20 Rothmans Says:
February 10th, 2009 at 11:52 am
I love the way you take these bad reviews in your stride, Major. It’s not like you whinge or anything…”
I love the way you take these bad reviews in your stride, Major. It’s not like you whinge or anything…
Hi Colin,
of course I whinge which is why I’ve just had a little fun with the review. How can I complain when someone gives me a bit of what I dish out? And as well, you’re perfectly within your rights to break off from your hard-hitting news copy to write a book review. It’s good to diversify and learn new skills in these harsh economic times. You keep on practising!
All the very best to you and to your charming editor whose briefs you love to fill,
Also you know book critics are notoriously snobbish when it comes to bloggers trying to break into their “superior” world. You have a black mark against you before you start. Or a brown one.
Dry your eyes Twenty. I’m sure your third book will get a much better reception. I am presuming, of course, that you publisher will be renewing your book deal following the staggering success of your first two?
For a guy who dishes it out, you become some baby when your on the receiving end, Major
I do love your Greek chorus of arse-likcing sycophants, though. Will you be bringing them on the book tour?
What impresses me about your fans is the way they defend your book by quoting stirring passages, by pointing to favourable reviews it’s had in other newspapers, by commenting on the cleverness of its plot, the shimmering imagery, the wit of its metaphor, and by saying ‘look, begrudgers, behold the shelf load of literary awards that Twenty Major has won”.
It’s not as if they just resort to calling the critics “cunts”. No, you have the fans you deserve.
I think if you read carefully through the comments, Colin, you’ll find that we’ve called you considerably more than ‘cunt’.
Unprofessional, asshole, regional weather reporting, Rupert-rimming, unfunny, illiterate handjob cunt would get a lot closer to covering the variety and subtlety of our abuse.
You forgot ‘unprofessional’.
I am genuinely quite taken aback by the behaviour of this so-called journalist, acting more like a teenage youtube commenter than a bona-fide journo.
Maybe he had a one-night-stand with Damien Rice and just can’t let it go.
Let it go Colin. There, there. It’s not your fault.
I would be curious to know how many other book reviews Colin has done. The nature of the review itself and his subsequent carry on strikes me as rather odd behaviour for a book reviewer.
Is this the sort of thing the Sunday Times enjoys? A reviewer slates a book and then comes onto the author’s website and attempts to mock said author for lack of awards and quoted passages on a book that has yet to be released?
Colin Coyne, you are letting your profession- assuming this is your profession- down very badly indeed.
The author of the book review has not posted a single comment on this page (including this comment). People should stop assuming otherwise, as they are totally incorrect. People who disagree with the book review are entitled to their opinion, as are those who agree. As for the slagging match that has ensued on this page thereafter, remember that the postings here are anonymous (as is Twenty Major). IP addresses can tell you where company they come from, but not the individual who wrote them.
What i can take from “Oberver’s” comments then is that someone(or many people) in his company,are posting here and making him look like a complete cunt..He’s obviously really popular there..
His popularity here has soared over the past few days anyway.. The Colin Craze continues…
What i can take from “Observer’s” comments then is that someone(or many people) in his company,are posting here and making him look like a complete cunt..He’s obviously really popular there..
His popularity here has soared over the past few days anyway.. The Colin Craze continues…
I haven’t slagged anyone, I raised a question. And the sudden back peddling strikes a note more false. Of course a person can like or dislike a book or movie or play, there is no question of that. What is EXTREMELY poor form is if a specific reviewer appears to be operating under an agenda. A vitriolic review, followed up by personal abuse on a popular blog is hardly professional, and leads this blogger to question motive.
I don’t believe any poster here has identified themselves as anybody. You lot are just jumping to conclusions. Fair enough on your part, why let the truth get in the way of a good slagging match?
At least it diverts attention away from the substantive issue. The book is a sloppily-written load of unfunny shite.
It is being released at the wrong time of year (Xmas deadlines were obviously missed), and it is highly unlikely to be a commercial succecess – the first book tanked, remember? Seeing as Absinthe also wasn’t written for arty/literature purposes, it is perfectly valid to wonder why the hell it was written at all?
Worthy book + poor sales = moderate success…… Shite book + poor sales = total waste of time.
Books by and large are written to entertain. Who decides they are ‘worthy’- a tedious snobbery- is a matter of opinion. I am reading an Unberto Eco book at the moment and it is boring the pants off me. But what I won’t do is write to Mr Eco and insult him because I do like that particular book.
If you don’t like a book Mr Coyle, and your style of writing suggest this is you, by all means say so, but if your job is to be a professional reviewer, attacking the writer behind the book on his own blog is disgraceful.
Further more, I and a lot of people on here are NOT anonymous, we have daily blogs and have met each other on countless occasions. We may be anonymous to you, but that is hardly the point.
Did the first book ‘tank’ or are you quoting an article written by yourself last year? I’m sure Twenty can provide figues and you can stack them up against more ‘august’ first novels released that same year.
Books, by the way, have pre-ordered slots decided long in advance as to when they are released by publishing houses. Christmas is not a ‘deadline’ anymore than Valentine’s day is. That line alone makes me question why you were the one to review this book when you clearly know so little about the industry.
Also.The fact I pointed out earlier is that The Book is not on the shelves yet(unless it arrived today) so no-one here apart from you Colin has read it.But you are saying you are not Colin so how have you come to the Conclusion that its
a sloppily-written load of unfunny shite?
Unless you are the type of person that believes in reviews wholeheartedly without making up your own mind..
Fatmammycat. Commercial books are written to sell. If they’re good, they’ll sell. If they’re not, they won’t. This book won’t sell.
I’ve already told you that CC hasn’t posted here, and I am certainly not him. I don’t know what you mean by my “style of writing” – I guess you are some sort of forensic literary scientist. But you’re off the mark. Seriously.
If you are going to start slinging accusations around about an individual’s behaviour being “disgraceful”, you should at least have something more than hearsay and presumption to back up your claim. But then again, that’s probably the difference between professional journalists and amateur bloggers.
I also don’t think you should be making pronouncemnts about anonymity. Did you get the name fatmammycat written onto your birthcert because of your father or your mother?
“I also don’t think you should be making pronouncemnts about anonymity. Did you get the name fatmammycat written onto your birthcert because of your father or your mother?”
I didn’t make a pronouncement (?). I just pointed out that we, many of us are not anonymous to each other, as in we are identifiable despite our use of a moniker.
Nor did I ‘slig an accusation.’ I think you are Colin Coyle, ( using ‘Major’ as though a surname and other quirks) and leading on from that, I think your carry on here is very unprofessional.
As Fatmammycat pointed out there is no such thing as a Christmas deadline. The book was always scheduled to come out at this time.
You claim not to be Colin Coyle, anonymous News International employee, but you use the same phrases he used in the review. Do us all a favour and stop pretending you’re not him. You can certainly use the ‘You can’t prove it’ defence but it’s it’s flimsy at best.
Colin Coyle wrote the review, he wrote the article last year about the poor sales, and after this post was made someone with a News International IP comes on using the same phraseology as him. You don’t need to be a fucking genius to work it out. And as someone else pointed out – if you’re really not him you’re making him look like a right cunt. As it is I think you’re just denying it to cover your arse.
the first book tanked, remember?
According to the sales figures I received from the publishers it sold more than 4,500 copies. When you consider Anne Enright had sold just over 3,000 copies of The Gathering before it won the Booker then I think that’s more than respectable for a first book – and a crap one too! Now, I’m not comparing myself or my book to her or a Booker winner, just putting in a bit of perspective for you.
…you should at least have something more than hearsay and presumption to back up your claim. But then again, that’s probably the difference between professional journalists and amateur bloggers.
Well I think all those cunts at NewsInt are Colin Cunts. He’s a talented fucker, this one. Apart from co-authoring Tipperary weather reports, analysing roof extensions on Bono’s house, and crafting personalised book reviews, a quick check on LinkedIn revealed all these other talents. He clones himself! And they’re all cunts! And they’re all commenting here:
Colin Coyle
Field Engineer at LTI DataComm
Colin Coyle
Security at Lynx
Colin Coyle
Contracts Manager at the UN
Colin Coyle
Director of Federal Programs
Colin Coyle
Director of Critical Facilties at Hewlett Packard
Taking the many-named News Intl commenter at his word, ie he’s not Colin, it must mean that Colin gave him the book to read since he purports to have read it.
What did Colin say to his many-named colleague, I wonder, as he gave him the book.
Maybe he said, “You have to read this, you’ll hate it. I did.”
Now if I were a colleague of Colin’s and he gave me a book to read, saying it was crap, I wouldn’t read it, would I. No I wouldn’t, because surely I’d trust his opinion?
So Colin works in an environment where folks second-guess each other all the time, and indulge themselves in meretricious writing at the expense of others. Yes, that sounds like The Sunday Times ‘Irish’ edition.
I’ve not read Twenty’s first book, and I may not read his second book. If I did I might dislike both of them as intensely as an unwelcome dose of the shitters.
But, unlike the toadies in the Sunday Times ‘Irish’ edition, I do not go around looking to get my ego boost and a salary from shitting on the hard work of other people.
So, all you loveable cunts at News International (Ireland) why don’t you find things you DO like and write about them for a change.
Im a big 20 fan and a struggling yet optimistic writer myself, i applaud 20 or anybody else who can get published, its not easy. Critics are a funny bunch and 20, along with everybody else is right to rip him apart and take the piss. Not because he is doing is job but because his vicious personal bile that he is spewing is truly awful. Don’t know what Colin’s beef with 20 is but there is something there and if 20 was/is a bad writer, fair enough, say so but c’mon, that article in the sunday times does not contain any modicum of journalist intent, its a scathing horrible article written by some one with an agenda. Colin, get a book published or get some ‘fans’, if not, shut the fuck up and piss off you prick.
Can’t see any difference?
The Thunday Timeth
Yeah, fuck ‘em.
Heh.
I hope that’s not actionable…
haha, cool! A dignified response.
Is there anywhere I can read the review
Do you really want me to scan it in and post it?
Should I?
yes please
Ha, Conan, have you gone Igor?
A definite improvement. Turn to page three at see the nude picture of my latest Chinese wife (19)to understand why I’m always buckled with a brang even in my ninth decade.
Yep,throw it up MB…
ANNE DOYLE WAS SUE DENHAM?!!
I’m sure Twenty has shares in Hewlett Packard.
The amount of hoops I’m having to go through to get me scanner working.
2 Driver downloads, 3 restarts, and another one coming in a couple of minutes.
Yiz are makin’ me late for work!!!!
sauce for the goose, etc, etc…
Have you ever been on time for anything MB?
At long last……
http://i42.tinypic.com/2ykfko1.jpg
Ouch.
You understand my hesitation?
Personally, I think it’s written by someone with an agenda against bloggers.
Like ‘How dare he?’
Or something….
Look, I’m fuckin’ late now…….
Jesus,did you ride his ma or something Twenty?
He seems very bitter and personal about the whole thing..
Yeah, I like the way he calls me ‘Major’ throughout.
Thanks for scanning and posting, MB.
I’m a bit slow today, but I sort of feel Colin Coyle isn’t too enthusiastic about the novel. Am I right?
Has he ever written anything other than articles for the Times titles?
Or letters to Foreign Affairs?
http://www.dfa.ie/uploads/documents/foi/reply%2008011%20part%20a0001.pdf
He sounds like a person with a severe case of tightsphincteritis and badly in need of a humour transplant.
He sounds like a cunt you mean?
And furthermore,even a thick BUFFALO like me knows full well that not in a million years would Foreign Affairs have given him the information he requested, nor could it legally have done so. Not the sharpest knife in the drawer I’d venture to surmise.
I know I might be reading too much into it but I think Colin Coyle doesn’t like your book.
Plus putting his address on the letter was BIG mistake…
“48 Pepperoni Pizzas with garlic Bread and 24 Litres of Coke please?..My address?…”
“fill3rup Says:
February 9th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
Plus putting his address on the letter was BIG mistake… ”
You are a cunt after my own heart, fill3rup, the best kind. ROFLMAO
“…I’d like 300 copies of Absinthe Makes the heart grow Fonder please.. My Address?..”
“Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow Fonder is the most important contribution that has been made to fictional literature in the twenty first century. . . It is likely that there is no one writing English today that could parallel Mr. Major’s feat, and it is also likely that few would care to do it were it capable. — Books of the Century; New York Times review, February 2009″.
Christ.
That’s an incredibly unprofessional review, alright.
He rubbed you up the wrong way, eh, 20?
Perhaps if you dropped out to his clinic, he might rub you the right way.
Dunno if happy endings are extra, though.
http://www.locallink.ie/view.php?i=399791
Surely a different CC?
Same bloke,you get a shit review and a reacharound for €20..
Bad omen – I notice that even the publishing too was a Hachette job …
Everyone say hello to Colin because you just know he’s checking in here.
Hello Colin! Hellooooo.
What a tool. Colin Coyle can suck it.
Twenty, I hope you sell a million copies.
Everyone say hello to Colin because you just know he’s checking in here.
Hello Colin! Hellooooo.
haha
Cheers, Medbh, me too.
Cheer up Twenty. You know what they say “One man’s meat…..” The comparison to the loathsome Royston was unfortunate.
Also well wide of the mark. Seems like a lazy comparison to me. They have Dublin in common and that’s about it.
……”pithy shards of spleen” eh? What the hell does THAT mean? Throw an ole shard there Twenty!
Pity poor Colin Coyle, it’s a dirty job and someone’s got to do it. And it must be difficult coming to terms with a name like that – prophylactic intraintestinal devices come to mind.
Do you think he’s a fan of 10cc?
My copy is ordered anyway,waiting for a text from the book shop when it arrives..
Jesus, that was a bit, er, personal for a fiction review, was it not?
Dublin ? Roy “Chubby” Brown Saltburn, N.E. England surely.
Mr Coyle deserves the creme-egg-up-bum and petrol treatment IMO. What a gobshite.
Serious literary types meh!
Reckon he’s suffering from piles or the like.
Maybe he met that other great character Ronnie McGrew.
A Ronnie McGrew review of the review maybe??
Hi Colin!
Everyone else:
Is the review of the first book anywhere to be read? I want to know the out-of-context “crude comic genius” reference.
Granted, he’s being very subtly sarcastic, but he uses the sentence “Comic genius!”
Awful eejit, but at least Hachette will be obliged to print “*stated in sarcastic tone” after the quote.
Courtesy of MonkeyBalls:
http://i42.tinypic.com/2ykfko1.jpg
I think he meant the first book Fill.
The clue is in the sentence “Is the review of the first book anywhere to be read?
And here it is; http://tinyurl.com/3dxjc8
No. Actually that’s not it. That’s from the Dubliner.
The ‘crude comic genius’ quote wasn’t from the review of the first book anyway. It was earlier than that.
Listen,I’m not interested in details MB,I’m not the Details guy…
When is your Book out MB? “Tallaghtpornication”
Cant wait!!
Looking around for that first review, I came across a reference to a piece written in the Sunday Times by Colin Coyle entitled “Blogger fails to click as novelist: Twenty Major has minor sales” on 23 March 2008.
Who can say he didn’t have an agenda now?
How do you know about me book?
That’s supposed to be top secret!
And you got the name wrong, it’s ‘Throbbing In Me Trackies’
I love the way you take these bad reviews in your stride, Major. It’s not like you whinge or anything…
“20 Rothmans Says:
February 10th, 2009 at 11:52 am
I love the way you take these bad reviews in your stride, Major. It’s not like you whinge or anything…”
Ah bless..
Im kindda lost- thought you had stopped blogging..Welcome back by the way ..Just catching up…on the news and views…
Is Colin Ross O carrol Kelly agent or something…Very strange
Ive mine on order anyways…
Has he ever published anything…Jealous “F” Word!
I love the way you take these bad reviews in your stride, Major. It’s not like you whinge or anything…
Hi Colin,
of course I whinge which is why I’ve just had a little fun with the review. How can I complain when someone gives me a bit of what I dish out? And as well, you’re perfectly within your rights to break off from your hard-hitting news copy to write a book review. It’s good to diversify and learn new skills in these harsh economic times. You keep on practising!
All the very best to you and to your charming editor whose briefs you love to fill,
Twenty
Anybody wanna bet against me when I say that Mr. Coyle has had more than a couple of rejections from publishers?
-Thought not.
Hello Colin,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSNpx2Htu-c
Nice one Twenty.
Thanks MB.
For a guy who dishes it out, you become some baby when your on the receiving end, Major
I do love your Greek chorus of arse-likcing sycophants, though. Will you be bringing them on the book tour?
For a ‘journalist’ your spelling is pretty fucking appalling, Colin. Thank God for sub-eds, eh?!
Colin, babies are not known for responding to baseless, agenda-driven attacks with witty and measured retorts.
They are shit at telling the difference between ‘your’ and ‘you’re’ though.
Also you know book critics are notoriously snobbish when it comes to bloggers trying to break into their “superior” world. You have a black mark against you before you start. Or a brown one.
In fairness Colin,did you expect not to get the piss ripped out of you?
Are you that naiive (sic:sub-editor)?
Do you not think in any way that your review came across a bit on the personal side?
Dry your eyes Twenty. I’m sure your third book will get a much better reception. I am presuming, of course, that you publisher will be renewing your book deal following the staggering success of your first two?
colin.coyle@sunday-times.co.uk
Don’t let on I told yis.
Given your new-found interest in grammar and syntax, Major, perhaps a follow-up to Lynn Truss’s book on the apostrophe?
Eats, Shoots and Cunts there’s your title.
20 Butts=one asshole
For a guy who dishes it out, you become some baby when your on the receiving end, Major
I do love your Greek chorus of arse-likcing sycophants, though. Will you be bringing them on the book tour?
Book Tour..heh!
Anyway,how is your Book coming along Colin?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuUBgkdFMqs
Eats, Shoots and Cunts there’s your title.
Christ, and you had the balls to call me unfunny.
If that’s actually the guy who did the review then he’s a complete dope.
It is Lorcan..
Well it must make a change writing book review rather than writing regional weather stories.
http://tinyurl.com/dhdhl3
Oh dear. That’s hardly very professional is it?
no its not, he’s commenting here for free..
You should be honoured Twenty…
Co-writing regional weather reports.
heh..yeah i was going to say but i knew one of ye would oblige..
Speaking as a genuine scum-sucking journalist, I’d just like to say the following to a fellow member of the Fifth Estate:
CC – you’re a cunting disgrace.
Oh, and Twenty – I’ve only just noticed you’re blogging again. Welcome back, you fucker.
Cheers, Scary. I see you’re up for one of them bloggie things. Good luck with that.
Hoping for a book deal and a decent, cunt-free set of reviews.
Ah.
Steer Clear of the Sunday Times when doing the publicity then Scary…
A shower o’cunts..
How can a ‘journalist’ who does regional weather reports suddenly turn into an arts critic?
Oh I know, it’s because his hole belongs to Rupert Murdoch so has to do whatever he’s told. I’ll bet he’d even rat out his own.
What impresses me about your fans is the way they defend your book by quoting stirring passages, by pointing to favourable reviews it’s had in other newspapers, by commenting on the cleverness of its plot, the shimmering imagery, the wit of its metaphor, and by saying ‘look, begrudgers, behold the shelf load of literary awards that Twenty Major has won”.
It’s not as if they just resort to calling the critics “cunts”. No, you have the fans you deserve.
Its not out yet Handjob…
^
What he said.
And of course we all know that the measure of any book is how many literary awards it wins. Thank you for setting us straight on that, Colin.
I think if you read carefully through the comments, Colin, you’ll find that we’ve called you considerably more than ‘cunt’.
Unprofessional, asshole, regional weather reporting, Rupert-rimming, unfunny, illiterate handjob cunt would get a lot closer to covering the variety and subtlety of our abuse.
You forgot ‘unprofessional’.
I am genuinely quite taken aback by the behaviour of this so-called journalist, acting more like a teenage youtube commenter than a bona-fide journo.
Maybe he had a one-night-stand with Damien Rice and just can’t let it go.
Let it go Colin. There, there. It’s not your fault.
I would be curious to know how many other book reviews Colin has done. The nature of the review itself and his subsequent carry on strikes me as rather odd behaviour for a book reviewer.
Is this the sort of thing the Sunday Times enjoys? A reviewer slates a book and then comes onto the author’s website and attempts to mock said author for lack of awards and quoted passages on a book that has yet to be released?
Colin Coyne, you are letting your profession- assuming this is your profession- down very badly indeed.
The author of the book review has not posted a single comment on this page (including this comment). People should stop assuming otherwise, as they are totally incorrect. People who disagree with the book review are entitled to their opinion, as are those who agree. As for the slagging match that has ensued on this page thereafter, remember that the postings here are anonymous (as is Twenty Major). IP addresses can tell you where company they come from, but not the individual who wrote them.
Yeah, nice try, you sap. Who else would possibly be interested enough?
What i can take from “Oberver’s” comments then is that someone(or many people) in his company,are posting here and making him look like a complete cunt..He’s obviously really popular there..
His popularity here has soared over the past few days anyway.. The Colin Craze continues…
What i can take from “Observer’s” comments then is that someone(or many people) in his company,are posting here and making him look like a complete cunt..He’s obviously really popular there..
His popularity here has soared over the past few days anyway.. The Colin Craze continues…
BOLLOX!!
I haven’t slagged anyone, I raised a question. And the sudden back peddling strikes a note more false. Of course a person can like or dislike a book or movie or play, there is no question of that. What is EXTREMELY poor form is if a specific reviewer appears to be operating under an agenda. A vitriolic review, followed up by personal abuse on a popular blog is hardly professional, and leads this blogger to question motive.
I don’t believe any poster here has identified themselves as anybody. You lot are just jumping to conclusions. Fair enough on your part, why let the truth get in the way of a good slagging match?
At least it diverts attention away from the substantive issue. The book is a sloppily-written load of unfunny shite.
It is being released at the wrong time of year (Xmas deadlines were obviously missed), and it is highly unlikely to be a commercial succecess – the first book tanked, remember? Seeing as Absinthe also wasn’t written for arty/literature purposes, it is perfectly valid to wonder why the hell it was written at all?
Worthy book + poor sales = moderate success…… Shite book + poor sales = total waste of time.
Books by and large are written to entertain. Who decides they are ‘worthy’- a tedious snobbery- is a matter of opinion. I am reading an Unberto Eco book at the moment and it is boring the pants off me. But what I won’t do is write to Mr Eco and insult him because I do like that particular book.
If you don’t like a book Mr Coyle, and your style of writing suggest this is you, by all means say so, but if your job is to be a professional reviewer, attacking the writer behind the book on his own blog is disgraceful.
Further more, I and a lot of people on here are NOT anonymous, we have daily blogs and have met each other on countless occasions. We may be anonymous to you, but that is hardly the point.
Did the first book ‘tank’ or are you quoting an article written by yourself last year? I’m sure Twenty can provide figues and you can stack them up against more ‘august’ first novels released that same year.
Books, by the way, have pre-ordered slots decided long in advance as to when they are released by publishing houses. Christmas is not a ‘deadline’ anymore than Valentine’s day is. That line alone makes me question why you were the one to review this book when you clearly know so little about the industry.
Also.The fact I pointed out earlier is that The Book is not on the shelves yet(unless it arrived today) so no-one here apart from you Colin has read it.But you are saying you are not Colin so how have you come to the Conclusion that its
a sloppily-written load of unfunny shite?
Unless you are the type of person that believes in reviews wholeheartedly without making up your own mind..
Which I dont think you are..
I think you’re Colin..
Fatmammycat. Commercial books are written to sell. If they’re good, they’ll sell. If they’re not, they won’t. This book won’t sell.
I’ve already told you that CC hasn’t posted here, and I am certainly not him. I don’t know what you mean by my “style of writing” – I guess you are some sort of forensic literary scientist. But you’re off the mark. Seriously.
If you are going to start slinging accusations around about an individual’s behaviour being “disgraceful”, you should at least have something more than hearsay and presumption to back up your claim. But then again, that’s probably the difference between professional journalists and amateur bloggers.
I also don’t think you should be making pronouncemnts about anonymity. Did you get the name fatmammycat written onto your birthcert because of your father or your mother?
you should at least have something more than hearsay and presumption to back up your claim
Interesting..
“I also don’t think you should be making pronouncemnts about anonymity. Did you get the name fatmammycat written onto your birthcert because of your father or your mother?”
I didn’t make a pronouncement (?). I just pointed out that we, many of us are not anonymous to each other, as in we are identifiable despite our use of a moniker.
Nor did I ‘slig an accusation.’ I think you are Colin Coyle, ( using ‘Major’ as though a surname and other quirks) and leading on from that, I think your carry on here is very unprofessional.
As Fatmammycat pointed out there is no such thing as a Christmas deadline. The book was always scheduled to come out at this time.
You claim not to be Colin Coyle, anonymous News International employee, but you use the same phrases he used in the review. Do us all a favour and stop pretending you’re not him. You can certainly use the ‘You can’t prove it’ defence but it’s it’s flimsy at best.
Colin Coyle wrote the review, he wrote the article last year about the poor sales, and after this post was made someone with a News International IP comes on using the same phraseology as him. You don’t need to be a fucking genius to work it out. And as someone else pointed out – if you’re really not him you’re making him look like a right cunt. As it is I think you’re just denying it to cover your arse.
the first book tanked, remember?
According to the sales figures I received from the publishers it sold more than 4,500 copies. When you consider Anne Enright had sold just over 3,000 copies of The Gathering before it won the Booker then I think that’s more than respectable for a first book – and a crap one too! Now, I’m not comparing myself or my book to her or a Booker winner, just putting in a bit of perspective for you.
…you should at least have something more than hearsay and presumption to back up your claim. But then again, that’s probably the difference between professional journalists and amateur bloggers.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jan/21/abramovich-sues-sunday-times
I don’t think it’s Colin.
I think it’s his Mam.
Well I think all those cunts at NewsInt are Colin Cunts. He’s a talented fucker, this one. Apart from co-authoring Tipperary weather reports, analysing roof extensions on Bono’s house, and crafting personalised book reviews, a quick check on LinkedIn revealed all these other talents. He clones himself! And they’re all cunts! And they’re all commenting here:
Colin Coyle
Field Engineer at LTI DataComm
Colin Coyle
Security at Lynx
Colin Coyle
Contracts Manager at the UN
Colin Coyle
Director of Federal Programs
Colin Coyle
Director of Critical Facilties at Hewlett Packard
Colin Coyle
Supervisor at Motorola
Star Wars: Attack of the Colins
Well, well, well…
Taking the many-named News Intl commenter at his word, ie he’s not Colin, it must mean that Colin gave him the book to read since he purports to have read it.
What did Colin say to his many-named colleague, I wonder, as he gave him the book.
Maybe he said, “You have to read this, you’ll hate it. I did.”
Now if I were a colleague of Colin’s and he gave me a book to read, saying it was crap, I wouldn’t read it, would I. No I wouldn’t, because surely I’d trust his opinion?
So Colin works in an environment where folks second-guess each other all the time, and indulge themselves in meretricious writing at the expense of others. Yes, that sounds like The Sunday Times ‘Irish’ edition.
I’ve not read Twenty’s first book, and I may not read his second book. If I did I might dislike both of them as intensely as an unwelcome dose of the shitters.
But, unlike the toadies in the Sunday Times ‘Irish’ edition, I do not go around looking to get my ego boost and a salary from shitting on the hard work of other people.
So, all you loveable cunts at News International (Ireland) why don’t you find things you DO like and write about them for a change.
Im a big 20 fan and a struggling yet optimistic writer myself, i applaud 20 or anybody else who can get published, its not easy. Critics are a funny bunch and 20, along with everybody else is right to rip him apart and take the piss. Not because he is doing is job but because his vicious personal bile that he is spewing is truly awful. Don’t know what Colin’s beef with 20 is but there is something there and if 20 was/is a bad writer, fair enough, say so but c’mon, that article in the sunday times does not contain any modicum of journalist intent, its a scathing horrible article written by some one with an agenda. Colin, get a book published or get some ‘fans’, if not, shut the fuck up and piss off you prick.
I loved the last book and can’t wait to read this one. Fair play, you ugly cunt.
Just got a Call from the Bookshop.
Book just arrived in.. I would assume if it made it doen here its all over the place now..
Nice one – will have a scout tomorrow.
Colin’s gone very quiet, hasn’t he?