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Hmmm...where do I start with this one...the 2-star rating says a lot... I rarely rate this low.
What didn't I like: The general lack of character in the characters... they were crude in general, all the women were shallow, and mostly trailer-trash variety, the men just screwing everything in sight, the amount of slang and swearing (hey, I'm no angel but there was enough cursing to make a sailor blush here!). There was also a LOT of name-dropping...Alan Bond, did I mention ALAN BOND!
Without gettin ...more
What didn't I like: The general lack of character in the characters... they were crude in general, all the women were shallow, and mostly trailer-trash variety, the men just screwing everything in sight, the amount of slang and swearing (hey, I'm no angel but there was enough cursing to make a sailor blush here!). There was also a LOT of name-dropping...Alan Bond, did I mention ALAN BOND!
Without gettin ...more
2.5★
This was such a disappointment because I normally love Judy Nunn books. This is certainly my least favourite Judy Nunn book, and one of my least favourite reads this year. It was too “bloke-y” - too much talk about sex in underage boys, and continued as they grew into adults.
It finally improved about halfway through, but not enough to redeem the whole book for me.
I listened to it on audio, and the narrator, Richard Aspel, was good.
This was such a disappointment because I normally love Judy Nunn books. This is certainly my least favourite Judy Nunn book, and one of my least favourite reads this year. It was too “bloke-y” - too much talk about sex in underage boys, and continued as they grew into adults.
It finally improved about halfway through, but not enough to redeem the whole book for me.
I listened to it on audio, and the narrator, Richard Aspel, was good.
1 star for the Western Australian history. 1 star for the rest of the book
Floodtide by Judy Nunn is the story of Mike McAllister, and his best friend Spud Farrell. Mates in childhood, as they grow Ian Pemberton and Murray Hatfield. The novel follows them from their childhood in the 1960s, as the group follow their dreams and carve out lives for themselves.
I was hooked on this book very early on. The story of the Batavia and the Abrolhos Islands are things I grew up with, so straight away I wanted to read on. Being a WA girl myself, so many of the locations are familia ...more
I was hooked on this book very early on. The story of the Batavia and the Abrolhos Islands are things I grew up with, so straight away I wanted to read on. Being a WA girl myself, so many of the locations are familia ...more
