Hello again Bernard,

I contacted you a while ago with a complaint of sorts regarding the use of coarse language in your books, the complaint being terms and use of wording you seem to use come across to me as comical. You replied saying that you had run my comment past your editor and that you both were confused and didnt understand what i mean, so i shall explain.

Warriors/Soldiers going back to who knows when have been hard men with sometimes brutal personalities, they swear and have sworn with the same words that are considered vulgar and coarse words today, effing this and effing that, using sh*t and most crude of all the “C” word. So why on earth would you write displays bravado with characters like Uhtred with lines like:

“I will gut your gutless guts”

This is just one of many, many comical lines that have come across in scenes with Uhtred confronting someone. I mean really…. really? I have read and throughly enjoyed all of Warrior Chronicles but the terse language horrifically bad i mean if you were fired up and ready to shed blood, literally screaming at the enemy would you really use language so sterotypically bad that it wouldn’t go amiss in monty python?

As i have said before i have taken a ancient history degree and learnt much of everyday life or Greeks, Assyrians, Romans, “Anglo Saxon/Medieval” periods to know that language was as crude then as it is now.
Ben