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Try Nothing Twice: The Story of Two Dozen Jobs
Try Nothing Twice is a cheerful and courageous tale told with the gusto and good-humour that make all Frank Clune's work so congenial to readers with a zest for life. It is a book for the young in heart and the haters of sham.
Try Anything Once was only a brief narrative, mentioning some highlights - and lowlights - of my forty years of existence. No sooner was it printed than i remembered a lot more things I should have included. Hence this book, Try Nothing Twice. It contains yarns that I had forgotten to mention before. It's an afterthought. Better late than never, let's hope.
Try Anything Once was only a brief narrative, mentioning some highlights - and lowlights - of my forty years of existence. No sooner was it printed than i remembered a lot more things I should have included. Hence this book, Try Nothing Twice. It contains yarns that I had forgotten to mention before. It's an afterthought. Better late than never, let's hope.
177 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1946
About the author
Frank Clune
70 books2 followersAustralian Dictionary of Biography entry
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http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biog...
Checklist of major works
http://www.burnetsbooks.com.au/biblio...
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December 25, 2019
This was a bit disappointing to be honest. As a second autobiography, after the first book Clune wrote - Try Anything Once, I had expected it to cover new ground, whereas most of this book is a rehash.
From the first page, it was all familiar, each job and each anecdote. I resorted to looking at the cover and the cover page several times, convinced I had a copy of a misprinted Try Anything Once, as it was all familiar. I struggled to pick out new tales - there were a handful, and some of the previous tales had been expanded a bit. Ironically, the book ends before the previous autobiography did! This one ends as he leaves the German ships, heading north through France to Belgium - just prior to the war.
Fundamentally, I don't really understand why Clune wrote it. It was written in 1946, some 12 years after the first, when he was pumping out books at a prodigious rate (7 published in 1945, this and two others in 1946, 2 in 1947 and 5 in 1948, etc). Perhaps this was just a filler book. I would have thought it would only detract from his reputation - It was certainly disappointing for me.
Read alone, it was probably 4 stars, but having read his earlier book, 2.5 stars, rounded down.
From the first page, it was all familiar, each job and each anecdote. I resorted to looking at the cover and the cover page several times, convinced I had a copy of a misprinted Try Anything Once, as it was all familiar. I struggled to pick out new tales - there were a handful, and some of the previous tales had been expanded a bit. Ironically, the book ends before the previous autobiography did! This one ends as he leaves the German ships, heading north through France to Belgium - just prior to the war.
Fundamentally, I don't really understand why Clune wrote it. It was written in 1946, some 12 years after the first, when he was pumping out books at a prodigious rate (7 published in 1945, this and two others in 1946, 2 in 1947 and 5 in 1948, etc). Perhaps this was just a filler book. I would have thought it would only detract from his reputation - It was certainly disappointing for me.
Read alone, it was probably 4 stars, but having read his earlier book, 2.5 stars, rounded down.
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