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Nov 29, 2013
Velvetink
rated it
it was ok
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I hope Flanagan isn't going in this thriller direction again. Really miss his previous style. The one saving grace was that it forced me to listen to Chopin's Nocturnes.
29/11/2013 1 0f 20 books for $10 the lot ...more
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May 16, 2011
Laura Rittenhouse
rated it
really liked it
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This book is a Thriller plus. The thriller aspect is that a woman finds herself in the wrong place (a man's bed) at the wrong time (the morning he's identified as a terrorist) and then spends the rest of the book trying to hide/run from/avoid this fact. She doesn't trust the police, the government, the attitudes of her fellow Australians. And rightly so.
This is the plus. This books makes the reader look at the reality of the post 9/11 world and the terror laws put in place to keep us all "safe". ...more
This is the plus. This books makes the reader look at the reality of the post 9/11 world and the terror laws put in place to keep us all "safe". ...more
I've thought about giving up on this novel after the first couple of chapters but I persevered but during the "interrogation" scene with Wilder and some ASIO, I shut the book and wondered why I wasted my time. The writing is very simplistic and inconsistent, the highlight for me was the description of some parts of Sydney which I am very familiar with but most of the paragraphs sound like it was written by a high school student for his Year 12 assignment. Why must the author write the first name
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This was a pretty disappointing read given how much I've enjoyed everything else Flanagan has written. The problem is the politics of it (which I broadly agree with) are so overt and unsubtle and, at the end of the day, unbelievable. It feels like a screed disguised as a novel, with too-obvious villains and over the top cynicism. I recognise and sympathise with the anger that drives the book, but, as a novel, it's a pretty limited.
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Mar 30, 2009
Todd
marked it as waiting-on-my-shelf
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australian-lit
Jul 23, 2009
Russell
marked it as to-read
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australians,
flanagan
Oct 13, 2009
Anne_MB
rated it
really liked it
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2008,
australian-fiction
