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Alan Fyfe

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Average rating: 4.16 · 109 ratings · 28 reviews · 5 distinct worksSimilar authors
T, a novel

4.05 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions
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G-d, Sleep, and Chaos

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Spring 2022 (Overland, #248)

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3.5 really, which I think is around right, though I'm still deciding what I think about this book. A narrative about a normal person. Istvan tips neither into the villain nor the hero character, though at times he can act like either. Szalay's writin ...more
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Is this a landmark in Australian writing? It might be. With the kind of tone and ideas you'll find in the best surrealism of Rushdie, Murakami, and Calvino, Siang Lu has crafted an entrancing tale. He has the writing chops to meet his ideas head on t ...more
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"Great concept and some really provocative content, but just failed to hit the mark for me in that I just didn’t really enjoy the way it flowed. "
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A touching tale of the early days of comic book superheroes and their inventors, shot through with mythic themes and the Jewish culture of its two fictional protagonists - who reflect the reality of the largely Jewish cohort of creators that invented ...more
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As a long time student (and writer) of prose poetry, this had that little something extra for me that a lot of Australian attempts at the form lack (though not all). A dedicated fusion of the poetic and prosaic that I enjoyed from cover to cover.
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4.5 really - I wish this site would allow for 1/2 star qualifications. Fantastic novel, and a must read if you liked the film, Death of Stalin. It almost seems like a prequel to Death of Stalin in its concentration on the awful Lavrentiy Beria as its ...more
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