![]() ![]() I don’t remember but I must have just Googled it,” he told Schwartz on Twitter. I actually think it’s quite funny and you’re totally right. Let this be a lesson to all novelists to read the full context of the things you’re looking up for your books but if you do make mistakes, at least let them be hilarious.”īoyne took the revelation in good spirits, and said he wouldn’t be changing the section – but would add Zelda to the acknowledgments page of the novel’s paperback, despite never having played a computer game in his life. I am very embarrassed for him and this is my nightmare but it’s also very funny,” said Schwartz. “He found a site listing monster parts and accidentally put them in his Very Serious book. It’s a historical drama set in the real world,” wrote Schwartz, who said she was alerted to the anomaly by a Reddit user.Ī Google search on the part of Schwartz suggested that Boyne must have perfunctorily searched for “how to dye clothes red” to come up with the passage, landing on a site listing the recipe for red dye in the game, which was released in 2017. 4RTgZxtUT7- Dana Schwartz August 3, 2020Īs the writer Dana Schwartz pointed out on Twitter, “if those ingredients look weird to you, it is because they are straight of out of the Zelda game Breath of the Wild”. On Reddit today, user u/NoNoNo_OhOhOh posted a page from acclaimed Irish novelist John Boyne’s latest book, ‘The Traveller At the Gates of Wisdom. This is a thread, but it’s worth it I promise.
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