The book is better than the movie, which is so often the case.
Anything written by Jane Harper is very highly recommended by me.
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This
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I’ll begin with my admission that if Ali Smith published a book of her shopping lists I’d be first in line to buy a copy(and if truth is known I reckon it’d be a gem). Anyway just finished “Gliff”, first hardback I’ve read in ages, even has a hole in the cover you can stick your fingers through. Blurb calls it a dystopia out of the Brave New World (which gets a solid reference too) stable, with children in the firing line. Sort of book I’d avoid like the plague, unless it was Ali Smith. It’s witty, funny, disturbing, knowing, utterly compelling and, fortunately, not as gut wrenching as it threatened to be at times. The follow up “Glyph”, which may or may not provide the missing pieces, is in the works, slated for later this year. I wait for it with nervous angst - all I can do is hope- against the odds? Be kind Ali.
His depictions of a post-apocalyptic world and a dystopian future are probably not for everyone, but I was enthralled by it. Lots of plot twists and I guess given recent events with Luigi, this book spoke to me from that angle as well. It is also a story about human adaptability. And in amongst all that horror there is a love story. He absolutely landed the ending as well.
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Anyone interested in my book ‘Never Forgotten - Honouring our Veterans’ is selling very well. If anyone interested in military stories, this is the one to read. There are 38 veterans amazing stories, Including Kevin Sheedy, Ian Anderson, Ian Payne and Iain Findlay (Reserves), all from the EFC. Simon Madden story is also in the book. He was an ambassador for Legacy at one stage. All the royalties go to Legacy Australia. It covers all wars from Vietnam to Afghanistan. I know Bacchusfox purchased two books, as his son is a veteran, and I thank him. It is in all bookstores and online. It is in Big W, but someone said most of their stores have sold out.
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Hi Dave
Your first two are good reads.
Thanks for the reminder, just downloaded your latest. Stay well Mate
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Just to note that the current EFC Coach is a Legacy boy.
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Got this for Christmas and loved it, which is hardly a surprise because I love the series.
I find the light, knowing and meta style of the protagonist so refreshing. Honestly just seems like a normal guy, instead of your usual damaged, grizzled men and women of typical murder mysteries.
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Only a few chapters in … but bloody hell …this book, the characters, superbly written.
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Fantastic! TBH I would buy it even if was universally disliked, because Ronni. Queen.
Great to hear you’re enjoying it though. 
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Just bought Gunnawah today.
Need to finish Liars first.
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I’ve just finished listening to Karla’s Choice, a novel written by John le Carre’s son, Nick Harkaway and billed as a John le Carre novel. Nick Harkaway’s real name is Nick Cornwell, but he writes under a pseudonym in order not to be accused of trading off his father’s name.
Karla’s choice is set in between The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. It begins very much like a good le Carre novel, but gradually falls away and by the end of it I had fairly much lost interest. I know the early le Carres pretty well, and there were a lot of false notes in this novel. I hope he doesn’t try any more.
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I’m in the middle of it now. It gets a little confusing if you’re listening on Audible in the car on a longish drive.
Finished Lustrum, the middle book of Robert Harris’s Cicero trilogy. I mentioned it to an old schoolmate at a friend’s funeral yesterday, and tried to describe who Harris was. Mentioned Conclave and expressed reluctance to see it because it’s church crap, but they’d just seen it and suggested I watch it. Only got the last bit, Dictator, probably the bit where Caesar became dictator, and leading to everyone’s death - Clodius, Pompey, Cicero and Caesar himself. It’s history, chaps…no need to grizzle about spoilers. None of them died of old age.
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Read every Le Carre novel (and several biographies) and won’t be buying the son’s work. Without trying to overegg the analogy it’s a bit like Shakespeare’s offspring giving us a Macbeth sequel.
Currently reading David Mitchell’s ‘Unruly’. A wry account of the history of Britain’s monarchy. Funny farker.
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Just finished reading Helen Garner’s novella Cosmo Cosmolina. Fantastic early work by one our great novelists.
I don’t think I’ve read any le Carre novels, but his son Harkaway is a legit good writer in his own right, albeit in a wildly different genre. The Gone Away World is one of my all-time favourites, and Tigerman was very good too.
It’s not really comparable to that awful Dracula ‘sequel’ that some distant relative of Bram Stoker vomited out a decade or so back.
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Not to mention Lee Child’s son, whatever his name is.