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''She smiles as if to say wow.''
... ha. Haha. Oh , dear. Right there is the egocentrism of youth - particularly youth-with-penis.
Humorous books featuring teenage boys press all my buttons. I like to pretend that I am a woman of taste, but really I am a woman with an unreconstructed and very coarse sense of humour. If a book has ludicrous sex, bottoms, farts and banana skins, I'm going to laugh. If it has clever word playwordplay, I'm going to laugh again. If it also has a comedy of manners set of misunderstandings, I'm going to laugh until I cry. ''Submarine'' absolutely and utterly ticks all my boxes. It's true that the final section of the book lacks drive - in fact, the entire narrative lacks progression once the marriage crisis is wrapped up - but plot resolution isn't the end of the world when you're being offered so many side-splitting moments.
Great writing, lexical navel-gazing and a corncupia cornucopia of sniggers. If that sounds like a good recipe to you, then you will love ''Submarine''.
My thanks to the nice people at Penguin for sending the book.
Those who find the teenage boy's mindset perennially funny should head to the teen shelves and look out [[Henry Tumour by Anthony McGowan|Henry Tumour]] by [[:Category:Anthony McGowan|Anthony McGowan]] and [[My Side Of The Story by Will Davis|My Side of the Story]] by [[:Category:Will Davis|Will Davis]]. [[:Category:Richard Milward|Richard Milward's]] [[Apples by Richard Milward|Apples]] isn't quite so funny, but it also finds poetry in the lives of adolescents. You might also enjoy [[Wild Abandon by Joe Dunthorne]].
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