“Declan Burke is his own genre. The Lammisters dazzles, beguiles and transcends. Virtuoso from start to finish.” – Eoin McNamee “This bourbon-smooth riot of jazz-age excess, high satire and Wodehouse flamboyance is a pitch-perfect bullseye of comic brilliance.” – Irish Independent Books of the Year 2019 “This rapid-fire novel deserves a place on any bookshelf that grants asylum to PG Wodehouse, Flann O’Brien or Kyril Bonfiglioli.” – Eoin Colfer, Guardian Best Books of the Year 2019 “The funniest book of the year.” – Sunday Independent “Declan Burke is one funny bastard. The Lammisters ... conducts a forensic analysis on the anatomy of a story.” – Liz Nugent “Burke’s exuberant prose takes centre stage … He plays with language like a jazz soloist stretching the boundaries of musical theory.” – Totally Dublin “A mega-meta smorgasbord of inventive language ... linguistic verve not just on every page but every line.Irish Times “Above all, The Lammisters gives the impression of a writer enjoying himself. And so, dear reader, should you.” – Sunday Times “A triumph of absurdity, which burlesques the literary canon from Shakespeare, Pope and Austen to Flann O’Brien … The Lammisters is very clever indeed.” – The Guardian

Sunday, July 20, 2008

“Oi! Where’s My Blummin’ Comment?”

A Minister for Propaganda Elf writes: “It appears that a number of people are having trouble leaving comments on Crime Always Pays, which is something of a bummer for all involved, and especially when it comes to the free books competition, when the only way you can win a free book is to leave a comment. Rest assured that the Grand Viz (right) filters out only those comments that are (a) spam marketing and (b) designed to incite hatred. Otherwise the comment policy is that if it makes it as far as the Grand Viz, it goes in. If you – yes, YOU! – have encountered difficulties leaving a comment in the last couple of months, or if you’ve left a comment only to wait in vain for it to appear, then it’s the software that’s the issue, not your comment and / or the lazy Comment Moderating Elf.
  “Some adjustments have been made, so hopefully the issue has been resolved. If it’s not, then we’ll have to think seriously about moving to another blogging platform. The whole point of blogging, after all, is to open up a channel of communication with like-minded people, and if the communication is all one-way then I might as well go out into a field and shout down a well. Which is fun, certainly, but nowhere as much fun as blogging. Besides, of all the CAP regulars, only Josh Schrank, as far as we know, lives down a well. Peace, out.”

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I live down one of those wells with a pump thingy on top. What do you call it? Pump? Does that count?

At first I thought you were returning to that old complaint of yours, that we don't comment enough. We do our best, and I always expect to be refused entry on the grounds that the latest comment is in even worse taste than the last one.

When you do take up well shouting, could you ask Mrs G.V. to come along with the camcorder, please? I'd like to see that.

Gerard Brennan said...

Hiya

Just checking that my comments are making it through.

So, are they?

gb

Declan Burke said...

Ms Witch - Well-shouting is a very private affair, and not for public broadcast, especially on a family blog. Gerard - t'would appear so, squire, although I you're still persona non grata on the GONZO NOIR posts, for some bizarre reason. Cheers, Dec

Anonymous said...

I wondered if I had been relegated to the bin for Americans who try too many times for a free book.