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Manacles
145 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1985
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Robert Whyte
3 booksRobert Whyte (born 1955, in Melbourne) is an Australian writer. He was a founding co-owner and director of the Brisbane-based multimedia firm ToadShow. After 2012 he participated in the Australian Government's new species exploration program Bush Blitz. His works include The Creek in Our Back Yard: a practical guide to creek restoration (2011) and A Field Guide to Spiders of Australia for CSIRO Publishing 2017. - Wikipedia
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July 27, 2023
I’m not a good writer of reviews but I wanna give this book some love.
It’s a fun park ride for the brain. I was gonna say a rollercoaster, but rollercoasters only go in one direction at a time. Manacles takes most directions and a lot of shapes, often simultaneously. Experimental but somehow cohesive. Not sure whether the book is actually cohesive, or it’s just the survival-instinct of the mind that knits together from fear of chaos. Shrugging emoji.
Manacles has been great to read in this, my year of reading.
This is a review of a hard copy I found on eBay, printed in 1985. The author has links to a PDF for download. It’s ©️2020. I downloaded the PDF and tried to find my place in it to read on toilet breaks at work. It seems to be a different beast with different “chapter” names, so to prevent (further) confusion I decided I’d give the PDF a go separately some time.
I nearly forgot to mention, it’s also really funny.
It’s a fun park ride for the brain. I was gonna say a rollercoaster, but rollercoasters only go in one direction at a time. Manacles takes most directions and a lot of shapes, often simultaneously. Experimental but somehow cohesive. Not sure whether the book is actually cohesive, or it’s just the survival-instinct of the mind that knits together from fear of chaos. Shrugging emoji.
Manacles has been great to read in this, my year of reading.
This is a review of a hard copy I found on eBay, printed in 1985. The author has links to a PDF for download. It’s ©️2020. I downloaded the PDF and tried to find my place in it to read on toilet breaks at work. It seems to be a different beast with different “chapter” names, so to prevent (further) confusion I decided I’d give the PDF a go separately some time.
I nearly forgot to mention, it’s also really funny.
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