Comments on Heatseeker Reviews: The Bloomsday Dead by Adrian McKinty

An odd thing happened with your comment, Adrian (t...

2008-07-24T07:21:00.000+01:00

An odd thing happened with your comment, Adrian (thank you for commenting, by the way).

I got the comment some time yesterday (Wednesday July 23) and immediately okayed it for posting.

Then this morning (Thursday July 24) I woke up to several annoyed emails asking why I hadn't posted it.

I suspect that Blogger, a huge, unwieldy class of a thing, may have been having one of its occasional hiccups.

Please take my assurance that I posted your comment straightaway.

I sent a reply to the address from which you posted, but Blogger seems to have anonymised that, so it may not arrive.

Thank you for posting my comment. I really appreci...

2008-07-23T23:18:00.000+01:00

Thank you for posting my comment.

I really appreciate the right of reply.

You guys rock!

Adrian...

I wrote a comment here yesterday but I noticed tha...

2008-07-23T13:09:00.000+01:00

I wrote a comment here yesterday but I noticed that you havent had the nerve to post it. There was nothing defamatory in it, I merely pointed out some sloppy reading and factual mistakes in the review.

Why didn't you post my comment? I think that's obvious. Many reviewers are very good at dishing it out but, sadly, are far too cowardly to take it. Indeed that's probably why they become reviewers in the first place.

What you should do is post the original comment and then this one. Prove that you CAN take it. Don't be scared, they are only words and honestly it will make you look good.

Looking forward to it,

Thanks

Adrian...

I dont know if you read the other books in this tr...

2008-07-23T03:01:00.000+01:00

I dont know if you read the other books in this trilogy. Michael Forsythe (by the way his name has en E at the end) is not a Protestant, has nothing but contempt for the UDA, wouldnt dream of having a Union Jack tattooed on his hand and certainly has no hatred of all things Irish. Is that really your view of Northerners? Have you been to Belfast recently? Things have changed, you know. Michael's contempt for the Garda is purely about the money. You can get twice the pay across the water as an English copper and its the same with the British army; its all about the dough - for us working class types that's the bottom line that counts, not some high falutin' sociological theory.

In fact I'm not entirely sure you were reviewing my book or trying to make some grander political point about Ulster and Ireland. I certainly wasn't. I couldn't care less about politics and I don't think didactic novels are terribly interesting.

If the story didn't engage you that's a fair comment, this style isn't for everyone. Athough perhaps you would have cared more about the characters if you'd known their context and histoy from the other books.

Finally do you really know more about the IRA than I do? I wonder.

Thanks for the review.

Adrian...