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Dreadful Nonsense

"I've read your blog. it's really funny. you should write a column." - Jon Ronson

The hype surrounding The Inadvertent Twin continues unabated. The review below appeared a week ago - before any review copies of the book were released to the press. It's the new journalism! Predictive reviewing! This review comes from Morag Keshtall, a Scottish journalist of the lowest calibre.

"The new collaboration between Eoin and Sharon will leave even the most eagerly excited fans gasping with delight. Their treatment of the most esoteric of themes is, as always, an exercise in novelty and originality. There are those who may find certain scatological facets bordering on the pornographic; but to do that would be missing the exquisitely expressed point. A point that is delivered with style and sharp certainty.

Not so much writers as artists, the team challenge our expectations of the novel as a format, and overturn our critical faculties, rendering this reviewer at least utterly speechless. Their power to thwart the ordinary and stifle the mundane is a thing of immeasurable importance in a literary scene that so frequently threatens to choke in its own stagnation. It is Eoin's very quixoticness, blended with Sharon's unique quotidiatudism that makes this pairing both startling, refreshing, and yet curiously familiar. If it contained words, I would say that this novel is nothing short of essential reading; being as it is an entirely fictitious fiction, I can only suggest that readers hurry to consume it before its cover is finally blown."


In other news, the press have been camped outside my door ever since the prefaces were previewed here two days ago. I did attempt to post up a brief statement on this weblog last night, concerning Eoin's latest foray in to the land of the illegal, but Blogger.com was mysteriously unavailable. I won't be making any comment concerning this, other than to imply that they probably did it on purpose so that our artistic voice couldn't be heard, and that I'm on to them and the government.

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