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... 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''.

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]].