I think saying that I crossposted it is a bit of an exaggeration, I have an automatic twitter thinger on my livejournal because I got sick of the fact that you can't archive on twitter, so everything I say over there ends up here as well. Annoyingly there is no way to set it to post as private automatically so I have to manually edit them all. But I have a paranoid fear of all I say being lost forever on the interweb with no way to verify whether I did indeed have pilchards for tea on Tuesday the 4th of March and so forth.
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Date: 2011-01-21 08:27 am (UTC)But, anyway, yes. He sent me the draft of his novel to have a look at. It's not bad, I'm about half way through it now. It reminds me a lot of England, England by Julian Barnes. It's quite self consciously whimsical and 'amusing' though, which grates a bit, and has some concerning assumptions, but I'm hoping that these will be undermined in the dénouement or something. Annoyingly I thought of much more apposite and amusing ways of describing it in the pub the day before last, but there you have it. Hopefully someone will publish it for him.