Stuck in a Book review …
A few weeks back I cast some bread on the waters - sent out a few more books to those that might like to review them.
One of them, Simon Thomas, has given The Well-Tempered Clavier a handsome - handsome! - review. Want to see Simon’s review? Then here you go: www.stuck-in-a-book.blogspot.com
One thing Simon did mention though was the Clavier’s sex scenes. Two of ‘em all told, and I spent more time tinkering with those two scenes than on any other part of the book.
Certainly too spicy for some people’s tastes. But you should have seen the sex scenes in the first draft … they’d have made your hair curl!
I called up Idle Tom the Publisher to tell him about Simon’s sensational review in “Stuck in a Book”.
“I think he liked it,” I said. “Simon didn’t go for the sex scenes though. Haven’t really found many people who have.”
Tom, for once, was surprisingly sage: “You’re never going to please all the people all the time. Some people want the sex scenes ramped up, some want them toned down. That’s romance for you.”
“You don’t say -”
“Anyway, one thing I was meaning to ask. Lot of al fresco sex in the Clavier. Must have all happened to you, right?”
“Why do you say that?”
“Well it couldn’t have just come off the top of your head could it? That kind of stuff, those sort of descriptions … I mean it had to be for real. Wasn’t it? Toes in the grass. Thorns in the bum. It all happened, right?”
“Well actually … it did all happen, yes.”
“I knew it!”
“But not to me.”
“It must have! It couldn’t not have!”
“As I say, Tom, it did all happen. But just not to me …”