Comments on: The Devil Went Down to Texas

By: Shelby

Shelby — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:19:44 +0000

Can you come to timberwood midle school and talk about your book. About what made you to make heck.

By: Shelby

Shelby — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:16:08 +0000

I love your book,I can not wait for heck 2

By: wherethebadkidsgo

wherethebadkidsgo — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:08:48 +0000

Dear Andy/ydnA
I can not recommend strongly enough purchasing your own copy of Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go. Even the most sanitary of libraries can become seething Petri dishes of disease. Don’t your fingertips deserve a clean copy beneath them? Who knows what awful thing the previous reader did to that copy? I shudder to think. And not only do I recommend purchasing your own copy, I recommend purchasing three copies: one for saving (a collector’s copy), one for reading, and one for travel. Only in this way will you ever truly know happiness.

By: Ydna Sewil

Ydna Sewil — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:22:35 +0000

Actually, I’ve never read the book. Everyone loves it so it’s been on hold like FOREVER!!! I would like to read it. It’s obviously very popular.
Ttyl,
Ydna

By: Alexis

Alexis — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:12:15 +0000

I guess you don’t…I don’t know because I’ve never been musked by a ferret. I’m a freak…..AWESOME!haha.hehe.

By: wherethebadkidsgo

wherethebadkidsgo — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:53:15 +0000

You guys are crazy cool. Thanks for all the comments and insights into the book I wrote, like, two years ago! Your book club—the first of its kind, I believe—has made my dismal freezing rain Portland day.

A quick response to some of your comments:

1) If you like Marlo, there’s more of her in the next book, Rapacia. It’s mostly her, though still tons of Milton, obviously. And she is set loose upon the coolest mall in the afterlife…

2) Yes, Milton is from John Milton. Most every name in the book is a reference to something. Mainly because I can’t think of names, so I have to respectfully borrow from others! Good catch on the “All Ye Who Enter…” sign. Perhaps my fave reference is when Lucky loses his dice collar, and Milton posts the note in the Cafeterium: “Milton’s pair of dice lost”…get it? Milton’s Paradise Lost? It’s how I amuse myself when desperately trying to come up with a story of some kind.
3) Yes, Lyon and Bordeaux are both Paris Hilton clones (first name, a French city. Second name, a big hotel chain). They meet some similarly ditzy, self-absorbed friends in the third book, Blimpo.
4) I like ferrets too, as long as they don’t spray me with musk. You never forget when you’re musked by a ferret. Never. You don’t feel so very Lucky.

Shine on you fabulous assortment of freaks!

By: Alexis

Alexis — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:33:04 +0000

This book is SO FREAKING AWESOME! Only on pg. 109 but I can’t wait to finish it. I think its funny how the book is always making fun of someone in history……or something like that anyway. It makes me LOL!!!!!!

P.S. my fave character is Lucky…….I like ferrets…..and he is lucky,obviously.hehe.

By: wyatt

wyatt — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:14:09 +0000

THE BOOK HECK IS ONE OF THE MOST COOL BOOK I HAVE EVER READ

By: Dawn Cline

Dawn Cline — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:41:05 +0000

Hola! We have some extra time in “One Heck of A Book Club” so we’re blasting your blog! HEY! I didn’t notice the Paris Hilton reference the first time I read it! Have a groovy weekend!

By: David

David — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:40:13 +0000

Hey your book is so hilarious i enjoy it so much. Ms.Cline asked us where the name Milton came from and I said it was John Milton who wrote Paridise lost. And i found the quote from Dante’s Inferno “all hope abandon ye who here”

Yours Truly
David