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| What is the best Australian book you have read?
Posted: 5/13/2008 4:36:14 AM | john mardsen series was great, read for uni, was supposed to only read one and then read all 7 of one of his series in like a week.
another aussie auther, not sure if i got the name write suzanne hayes, wrote a book along lines of bridget jones super funny, cant remember exactly what it was, but thats one of my fav books, read it twice and rarely do that. | |
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| What is the best Australian book you have read?
Posted: 5/13/2008 5:50:55 AM | Ok Im embarassed to admit this but Ive never read a Tim Winton book...I know, I know...so can I ask which one I should read first..is there any order ?..
I did read a review at the weekend that OP states and it got a excellent review...so perhaps that one first ?
Thomas Keannelly...Schlinders Ark - before it became a List....excellent.
Oh and when I was a little girl I read "Seven Little Australians" by Ethel Turner over and over and over again...cause I liked it when Judy died...see fascinated with death even then and I just gave the ending away.........sorry
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| What is the best Australian book you have read?
Posted: 5/13/2008 5:58:26 AM | Maybe its sacrilege but I didn't like 'Cloud Street'. It seemed a bit deliberately and unnecessarily unclear. There were characters that appeared to have no purpose. There was something weird happening with the washing line and an old aboriginal bloke turning up in an unnerving way here and there and I never worked out why.
I like novels where the loose ends all tie up at the end. Anyway having not enjoyed that one I haven't read any other Tim Wintons.
And the other thing that slightly annoyed me was that he took a bit of poetic license with the streets in Perth. Even allowing for the time period that the book was written in they dont run that way. | |
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| What is the best Australian book you have read?
Posted: 5/13/2008 6:50:01 AM | | I really enjoyed Andrew McGahans 'Praise' It's rather a bleak novel that finishes pretty much where it starts so the characters don't really grow and the loose ends don't get tied up...you'd hate it Dimeadozen. I liked it cos it depicted the seedy side of Brisbane that I remember living in as sixteen year old so well, the dingy bedsits and the drunks and junkies. | |
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| What is the best Australian book you have read?
Posted: 5/13/2008 2:44:26 PM | I read Shantaram a few years back (original cover) when it first came out and literally could not put it down. I then leant it out and never got it back!
I have since purchased another copy and have started reading it again.
It is by far the best book I have ever read. The guy is a literary genius! | |
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| What is the best Australian book you have read?
Posted: 5/13/2008 10:48:52 PM | Feisty same here, I just flew through Shantaram, couldn't wait to see what happened next, then lent it to mate who lent it to a mate lol who knows where it is now but I'm sure they love it, plus I bought it for christmas presents, I just wanted everyone to read it and cant wait for the sequel.
Pookie Tim Winton is awesome, I'm sure you'll love him, Cloudstreet is just so cool and Dirt Music also, I haven't read Breath yet but it's on hold at the library and there's a few older ones of his I must chase up
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| What is the best Australian book you have read?
Posted: 5/14/2008 3:13:54 AM | | hi bewitched66, you seem to read wat i have,but not the best of all, which i've read 7 times. the term of his natural life , marcus clarke, the unbridged edition, dont read tv book version waste of time, should never been put to print, marcus clarke still turning in his grave over that ,lol. | |
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| What is the best Australian book you have read?
Posted: 5/14/2008 3:31:11 AM | What about the Magic Pudding???
I vaguely remember reading this book when I was about 7 years old and being somewhat disturbed but intrigued by the illustrations which, from memory, were a bit weird? | |
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| What is the best Australian book you have read?
Posted: 5/14/2008 3:41:48 AM | When I saw this thread I looked in my book shelves and struggled to find any australian books.
I have a couple of non fiction political books - of which the best is John Martinkus A Dirty Little War - about the East timor issues
But the only fiction novel by an Australian author I could find was John Birmingham's He Died with a Falefel in his Hand
Stange why schools and friends dont encourage reading of australian books | |
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| What is the best Australian book you have read?
Posted: 5/14/2008 3:50:25 AM | Hey guys
My most fav book eva is 'tracks' by Robin Davidson. Also love Sally Morgans 'My Place' and anything written and illustrated by Jeannie Baker - awesome kids author.
Bless BG | |
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| What is the best Australian book you have read?
Posted: 5/14/2008 4:05:17 AM | | I agree. To begin Cloudstreet seems a little obtuse - A little out there as do many of tim wintons books initially. It may appear it takes 100 pages for him to get a roll on. What I like about "Breath" is how it doesn't dilly dally and gets straight to the heart of a man's soul. His prose of teenage males is exceptionally realistic and their experience of big waves even more so. Mind you the sexual content could offend including asphixiation parts, but I reckon it will bring readers out of woodwork like harry potter did for kids. I know a big call, but see what happens. | |
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| What is the best Australian book you have read?
Posted: 5/14/2008 4:43:36 AM | For me, I think I identify (or would like to think I do) with a lot of the books I read....most of mine have in common that the main characters are true pioneering battlers. I can empathise with their struggles....my favourite book ever is "Angela's Ashes" (I know, Frank McCourt is not an Aussie, but I am sure I was Irish in a past life!)...and like Ruth Park's Harp series....it made me laugh and cry within the first few pages, without being patronising or pretentious.
I don't always like a happy ending...life's not necessarily like that. I like well developed, gutsy characters who don't take themselves too seriously. Rough diamonds with a ratbag streak. A bit like my friends in real life.
I loathe wordy texts that try too hard to be part of some arty-farty 'in' crowd. | |
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| What is the best Australian book you have read?
Posted: 5/14/2008 4:45:27 AM |
I loathe wordy texts that try too hard to be part of some arty-farty 'in' crowd.
I think this is why I haven't read Tim Winton - I must've picked up one of his at some point and skimmed a couple of pages. But I promise I will try him soon! | |
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| What is the best Australian book you have read?
Posted: 5/14/2008 4:47:27 AM | | While I'm hogging the show, thought I'd add that I saw 'The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith' years ago at school, and I think it is one of the movies that is EQUAL to the book. | |
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