Knowledge is Power

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2022 - 9) The Last Great Australian Adventurer: Ben Carlin's epic journey around the world by amphibious jeep - Gordon Bass.

This was quite interesting. Took me a few months to get through in amongst many distractions. Enjoyed it.

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2022 - 10) The Harbour - A cities heard, a countries soul - Scott Bevan.

A book about Sydney Harbour. Lots if interesting info and back stories on places. Took me ages to get through it as so many life interruptions - but got there eventually.

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2022 - 11) Minecraft: The Unlikely Tale of Markus "Notch" Persson and the Game That Changed Everything - Daniel Goldberg & Linus Larsson

An interesting account of the origins and development of Minecraft.

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2022 - 12) Skyward: Starsight - Brandon Sanderson.

Book 2 in the Skyward series. More detailed than book 1. A bit slower moving. More world building. Enjoyable.

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2022 - 13) The Simpsons Confidential - John Ortved

A disjointed book made up of various accounts from various sources of their time on and around the Simpsons show. This book dragged. Learned a couple of interesting bits and pieces - but was largely disappointed.

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2022 - 14) Skyward: Cytonic - Brandon Sanderson.

This was terrible. Had to skim read from about 25% on.

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2022 - 15) Sydney Noir - A short story compilation.

Collected writings from various authors. Very good.

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2022 - 16) Tiger King: The Official Tell-All Memoir - Joe Exotic.

This was a fun (?) read if you've seen the Netflix doc a couple years ago.

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2022 - 17) History of Australia - Tony Robinson.

Didn't know who this guy was. Some minor celeb. Book itself was a quick easy to read history of Australia - interspersed with random photos of the author doing stuff in Oz.

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2022 - 18) Error Australis: The Reality Recap of Australian History - Ben Pobjie

A funny historical bio of Australia.

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2022 - 19) Rum - A Distilled History Of Colonial Australia - Matt Murphy.

A funny read. Wasn't as funny as I was hoping though.

Have read a good few Australia history books recently and getting slightly jaded from the same type of book - from no fault of the books themselves.

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2022 - 20) This Is a Call: The Life and Times of Dave Grohl - Paul Brannigan

Enjoyed his back story.

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2022 - 21) The Death of Holden - Royce Kurmelovs

Total drivel. Misleading title. Very little of the book is about the subject matter. Instead it is a collection of repetitive snippets where author meets down and outs across Oz who blame their problems on the government.

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2022 - 22) Sing Backwards & Weep - Mark Langean

Enjoyed this account of the authors time in and around Seattle during the grunge period and his time in The Screaming Trees & solo.

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2022 - 23) Moby - Porcelain

Moby autobio of a decade from late 80s through 90s around NYC. Enjoyed the insights and some entertaining stories.

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2022 - 24) Trump and Me - Mark Singer

A short book that wasn't great.

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2022 - 25) Atomic Habits - James Clear

This was ok. Felt the start dragging and too self helpy. It picked up a bit of pace from middle to end. Most of the stuff is obvious, but good to remind oneself.

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2022 - 26) Killing Time - Jimmy Barnes

3rd of 3 books by the singer from Cold Chisel. Some interesting autobiographical snippets.

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2022 - 27) Iron Ambition - Mike Tyson

Tyson recalls lessons learned from his trainer Cus D'Amato.

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2022 - 28) The Life of a Spy - Rod Barton

Seemed promising in first half. Got a bit bogged down in second half.

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2022 - 29) Cat On A Hot Tin Roof - Tennessee Williams.

Enjoyed this quick three act play.

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2022 - 30) Who Is Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Edward Albee.

Another quick read of a short play. Entertaining.

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2023 - 1) A Street Car Named Desire - Tennessee Williams.

Short enjoyable read.

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2023 - 2) The Masters and Me - Tiger Woods.

An account of his win at the August 97 Masters. Not the best written book. Seems to have been a collection of thoughts/musings/phone calls recorded and transcribed into a book by a helper. Didn't go into much depth on his personality/background off the course.

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2023 - 3) Freud on the couch - Beverly Clack.

An overview of Freud and his works.

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2023 - 4) Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger.

A good re-read two decades later. Enjoyed it.

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2023 - 5) The Pride of Parnell Street - Sebastian Barry.

A short play.

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2023 - 6) Spare - Prince Harry.

Interesting given the hype. Hard to know what is fact or fiction.

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2023 - 7) Poorly Made in China - Paul Midler.

Interesting book written just over a decade ago on manufacturing in China.

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2023 - 8) Fire & Blood - G.R.R.Martin.

This was tedious. Got to page 400/700 then skim read the rest. A lot of painfully made up backstory to justify another tv series making money off the back of Games of Thrones.