I mean, that’s not what the area surrounding the Eiffel Tower even looks like you Farking asshat
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I am kinda giggling, thinking about reading it in his voice.
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“he gives it some gun”…
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Chaos ball, from the paint.
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Well, there are at least 24 people who want to read it. The cover and blurb alone should be enough to deter anyone other than family and childhood friends from picking it up.
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Edit - “best loved media personalities”
I must say I don’t understand the hate for Dwayne on here. Okay, he uses a lot of clichés, but show me a sports commentator who doesn’t. And he seems a friendly enough bloke and knows as much as any of the others about football. I like him as a commentator.
Can’t say that I’m likely to read the book. But good on him for having a go.
Bommuss
Rick is a truly great human.
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Just finished The Sunbaker by P A Thomas. It’s the sequel to The Beacon, which I hadn’t read. Set in Brunswick Heads and Byron Bay, Jack Harris is working as a journalist when a corpse is found by Nicola’s holiday house. It appears as if the Harriers, the police special operations group, have something to do with it.
It likes to push readers in the wrong direction, but it’s quite readable and I’ll be back to read The Beacon.
However,first I’m onto the next Thursday Murder Club, and Chris Hammer and Jane Harper have books out today, with Garry Disher due in a fortnight.
My copy turned up yesterday and, given the wet and windy conditions outside, sitting by the fire with this sounds like a cosy way to spend the arvo.
update: Well, it’s just like catching up with old friends. This, the fifth in the series, is as good as the best of them and I thoroughly enjoyed it from start to finish. Recommended.
Life’s all about timing, innit? Shortly after finishing the Osman, the postie turned up with three more new books. Chris Hammer takes precedence to be followed by Disher and Stevenson.
Finished the TMC book, The Impossible Fortune, last night.
I thought it was pretty good…it had some mystery to it.
Started Chris Hammer’s new one, Legacy, last night.
Martin has written a tell-all biography of a dead mobster, and the gang hasn’t taken it at all well and have blown up his book launch in Silver. His AFP mate tells him there’s a contract out on him and they’ve renewed the contract with a better hitman after the first failure. So he’s sent Mandy and Liam overseas, and he’s gone off the grid out back of Bourke.
The other story in the book covers a ghost-writer, Ecco (short for Ekaterarina), who’s just delivered the bio of some flog (she hated him) but he’s been exposed as an abuser and the publishers have backed out. She’s given a gig in outback Queensland, to write a biography covering a family who’s run a station for 120 years, but Dad’s too old and his kids don’t want the place.
Presumably their paths will cross.
Picked up the latest Hirsch novel from Garry Disher, and now waiting for the new Jane Harper and Lincoln Lawyer books due out in a week.
20 unread books on the back of the couch.
I’m close to halfway through this one and, as usual, Hammer is a delight to read.
I’m yet to read any of Chris Hammer’s books but will definitely get around to it sooner rather than later. Just a FYI, if anyone is in the area.
A treat awaits you. I’d suggest reading them in order, starting with ‘Scrublands’.
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I fought so hard for our new Library here in Bacchus Marsh. Well not that new now, it was 13 years ago when we opened it, but I had to battle my farmer Councillor colleagues who argued that “no-one reads books any longer”. I won in the end, and now we have a great place not only for finding books to read but to sit in the quiet and read them as well. Not sure I achieved that much as a Councillor in local government, but the Library made it all worthwhile.
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Good job, BF!
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So intrigued was I by the yarn and so enamoured with Hammer’s writing, I stayed up until stupid o’clock last night to finish this outstanding work. Wonderful characters, superb plotting and some fascinating reveals all rolled up in a beautifully described landscape. 10/10
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Looking forward to starting this one, it’s lined up on my kindle to read after finishing Gabriel Bergmoser’s latest, High Rise. About halfway through it and it’s another page turner.
I don’t think this is a spoiler, but I misread something, or he’s made a blue on the distance between the two station. Wilcannia to southern Queensland? Two hours.
Garry Disher’s ‘Mischance Creek’ is the fifth in the Hirsch series and maintains the high standard established by its predecessors. There will likely be more to follow.
Hirsch is not only dealing with such local issues as gun checks and SovCit numpties but also a cold case murder from a few years back and other nefarious activities around the district.
As usual, Disher has produced a well paced, highly entertaining and absorbing yarn. 9/10