Dave Franklin

Rating: ...what, was I stoned, only FOUR?! Silly old faggot, make it five! Five, or what the hell, make it an even six!!

Just please, please, please let me live. I don't want to be tied to chair in an abbatoir with pig testicles slapping me and a pig's penis slithering down my my my oh gawd I can't even

So yes yes, all you lovely lovely writers out there, yes I shall only write praise and happy-clappy sixteen-star yodels of rapture I swear double swear and cross my parts and hope to die!

The dark and deeply disturbed mind of the Dave Franklins out there should never be discommoded, lest the revenge cease being a fantasy. This ebook is free, and fun, and funny...but not without its sharp little point.

Don't miss it. It's short. The price is right. And whaddaya know, it's got a message we all do, joking aside, need to heed.… (altro)

IT arrived today 19th April. Thanks. !!!!

I was intrigued firstly by the setting in Korea and teaching English as a 2nd language. That said it was a book like no other I've read. I have to preface that I'm not a great one for comedy, and often fail to see the joke. So the first couple of chapters were hard for me to get into being comedically challenged. However that said, once I got past the names of the students I started to enjoy the main characters in a perverse kind of way. After the slow start, I guessed the style might attract younger readers. Then I realized the comedy style might be on a par with "Restaurant at the End of the Universe", the British TV series "The Young Ones", and "Fawlty Towers", at least it reminded me of those. So for a person who doesn't enjoy or get comedy too much,I'm giving it 3 stars.

I didn't really like the cover illustration of a hand holding a cane.… (altro)

Dave Franklin can actually write. In fact, he infuses a great deal of personality and energy into every sentence and so I'm actually sad that I had to give Girls Like Funny Boys only a two star rating. Even Franklin's abilities can't save the story from being a wirlpool of groan.The biggest problem is that Franklin wants you to know that this is Australian in the 1980's AND HE WON'T EVER LET YOU FORGET IT. In fact, there was a reference to either the location or the time period in almost every second sentence. From the name dropping of bands, to hair styles, clothing styles, cars and the painful rendition of the Australian accent and slang, to the Aussie locations and pubs used in the novel. It felt like Franklin was screaming in my face: "THIS IS AUSTRALIA IN 1986!!!!!! WOOOOOOT!!!!!"The main character, whilst crying and sniffling over his poor dead dog was also drunkenly molesting a young woman at a party. Then he'd cry about his dog somemore. Then he'd think about sex. Then he'd whack off to a porn video. He kind of lost me very quickly. I know we're exploring adolescents here but strangely I wasn't in the moood for reading a dude making tissue babies to a graphic porn movie. You can leave SOME mystery to your character, you know. I mean, I've got quite a few Goodreads friends and followers who I almost NEVER update about my sex life. Yet strangely they still read my reviews. Wait, SHOULD I be adding saucy details about intimate moments here? Will this get me more readers? Will I then be considered 'gritty' and 'real'?Maybe not...I think this book had a good concept and Dave Franklin has a natural craft with words but I think he had a great deal of difficulty bringing the concept into a readable and enjoyable story.… (altro)