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    <body><![CDATA[Ah, remember when books were important! And very very long.  This teeming Dickensian Sydney, plonked in a Patrick White desert, was thrust at me by a wild-eyed enthusiast in 1985, shortly after it became the novel that should have won the Booker that year.  I took one look at the size of the thing a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60151798">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wish I could give this book a half star; for me, it hovers somewhere between 3 and 4.<br/><br/>&quot;Illywhacker&quot; was remarkable because of the incredible dexterity with which Carey handles his prose. In the first half of the book, Carey manages to shift narrative perspectives, discard his ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60141622">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Boy, it's been kind of gloomy around here recently, hasn't it?  What with <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.eveningallafternoon.com/2009/11/confessions-of-an-excerpted-sinner.html">unanticipated abridgments</a>, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.eveningallafternoon.com/2009/11/a-history-of-hand-knitting.html">disorganized Englishmen</a>, and <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.eveningallafternoon.com/2009/10/kristin-lavransdatter-the-wreath.html">lukewarm responses</a> to historical fiction, things have looked rosier.  But here, my friends, is the antidote: Peter Carey's rollicking Australian epic <em>Illywhacker</em> is robus...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76225148">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an old Peter Carey book from the 1980s that I never read.  It encompasses the sweep of Australian history and identity through the eyes of the 139-year old narrator who is an adventurer and a con man.  It gets a little long and a little surreal (800 pages and characters who live in cages in ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48013800">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Okay, I enjoyed this book, I liked the characters but as read further into the novel, I found myself wanting more of Herbert Badgery's story. About three quarters of the way, I get bogged into a whole heap of characters that I neither cared about or want to know. I was intrigued by Herbert and I fou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37981444">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Savour every page in this tour-de-force by Australia's finest Booker prizewinner. It's not just 139 year-old Herbert Badgery's outlandish shaggy dog stories on women, aviation and the outback, it's not just the people and places that spring vibrantly from the page, it is the beauty of Carey's crafts...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18487868">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read this book a couple of times. I'd read it again but my copy has fallen apart. It's one of my ten favorite books.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Illywhacker by Peter Carey (1996)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fred Dale Lending Library Book]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[different and brilliant]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[What an interesting book. Peter Carey's characters are always complex and his stories are epics, and this book is in the same vein, if a bit more... eclectic and bizarre. Illywhacker is an old Australian slang term for con-man or huckster, and it is the story of Herbert Badgery's life/tall tales spa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10343712">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first time I read this book, I bailed after 200 pages. For whatever reason, the non-linear structure was a major obstacle for me. On my second attempt, though, I became addicted, even re-reading many pages as I went. Peter Carey mixes dozens of characters with a strong set of themes and images t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15104221">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If a novel's flaws are flaws of ambition, I forgive them pretty easily. Such is the case with this massive, sprawling, hilarious, poignant, stuttering epic about an Australian teller of tall tales that he passes off as his own personal history. It ends with an image I defy anyone to forget &amp; feature...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4584992">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1989</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my first Peter Carey book, and the title is evocative of what the reader will find within.  I don't remember the plot; what I do remember is that it was totally off the wall and left me wanting more from this author.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Didnn't make  it all the way through. Not my cup of tea I guess. Not even with 5 years away from Australia nostalgia to egg me on.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1986</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved it.  The Illywhacker is about a lier and how his stories get out of hand, the end was just unbelievable, still makes me laugh.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great tale of an inveterate liar and his brood. Fact and bullshit combine to create one hell of a shaggy dog story.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another all-time top favourite of mine.<br/><br/>I loved everything about this book, and the way Carey makes Australia come to life.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Superb. Carey's finest work. The history of Australia distilled into one character.]]></body>
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