Originally published in the UK, Gotta
Get Some Bish Bash Bosh is a short comic novel for young adults and
anglophiles about the trials and tribulations of a boy losing and regaining his
girlfriend.  It is the same tradition as Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging,
but told from the male point of view.  Its nameless narrator starts out by
getting dumped by his girlfriend Sandi by phone, because she wants to date
older boys.  They are in Year 10 (tenth grade) and Sandi says she wants a man
with more self-confidence. So our hero gets a new haircut and starts to get
himself into shape.  Newly attractive, he finds that he has an admirer in
Emily, a violin-playing Year 8 girl, and he is not sure what to do about that. 
He and his best friend Ric get themselves invited to a Halloween party and he
also finds that he is being pursued by Natalie, one of Sandi’s friends. 
Teenage dating seems particularly confusing, and the authors (a mother-son team
using the nom-de-plume M. E. Allen) bring out the bewilderment well.   Gotta
Get Some Bish Bash Bosh is a quick fun read, although it doesn’t have many
laugh-out-loud moments. 

© 2005 Christian
Perring. All rights reserved. 

Christian
Perring, Ph.D., is Academic Chair of the Arts & Humanities
Division and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Dowling College, Long Island. He is also
editor of Metapsychology Online Review.  His main research is on
philosophical issues in medicine, psychiatry and psychology.

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