Talk:Mark Haddon

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[edit] Adult book or children's book?

In response to Polynova's recent edit summary: the article in its current form is not intended to imply anything about the book: it states the facts that the book was judged and treated as an adult book, despite the fact that it was marketed both for adults and for children. While I don't believe that a Wikipedia article is the place to debate whether or not this is a children's book, I do believe the article should reference the fact that there is grounds for such a debate. If you feel this should be worded differently, please feel free to rephrase the paragraph, but note that your last edit left a meaningless sentence dangling in the article: he was surprised when his publisher suggested marketing it to both audiences. --Woggly 06:51, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Polynova's edit is better. "The book won this prize in the general category as a novel, despite the fact that a separate category exists for children's literature" intentionally or not expresses suprise that it won a prize as an adult novel. But as stated later, it was always intended as an adult novel, so this sentence is bizarre. There isn't any need to mention children's novels at all until we get to "he was suprised when his publisher suggested marketing it to both audiences." which is a fact independent of what has gone before. "Both audiences" is clear from the previous sentence. i.e. adult and non-adult. Quirkie 22:41, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Perchance to clock

"While there, one of his major achievements was to "clock" the Gravitar video game, a fiendishly difficult task which proved beyond the college's most obsessive video nerds."

Pretty obscure achievment, for example, with perhaps WHAT he read at university! And his subsequent work with children. And POV. And also "clock" is needlessly obscure in this context. Quirkie 00:28, 24 May 2005 (UTC)