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Songs by Honeybird
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King Cal
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"What a way to end 2025, and begin 2026 with another incredible read from one of my favourite writers.
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"So here's the deal. The writing is very immersive. It's like you're at the parties with these characters and standing right there in the midst of their conversations.....which would be great if I actually liked these characters. Instead, it feels lik"
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Parts of this debut work really well--Brodie does a good job of making us feel like we're in the late 60s, without relying too much on lingo or other potential clichés. The writing goes by very well, and some of the music scenes are nicely done. Ther ...more |
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“And so now I'd like to say - people can change anything they want to. And that means everything in the world. People are running about following their little tracks - I am one of them. But we've all got to stop just following our own little mouse trail. People can do anything - this is something that I'm beginning to learn. People are out there doing bad things to each other. That's because they've been dehumanised. It's time to take the humanity back into the center of the ring and follow that for a time. Greed, it ain't going anywhere. They should have that in a big billboard across Times Square. Without people you're nothing. That's my spiel.”
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