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Originally Posted by Hamlet53
Patrick White a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature? Well that puts something by him on my TBR list.
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Yes, Patrick White has a huge reputation in literary circles. He's not on my list because both my mother and sister read him and found him to be positively excruciating. As I share quite a few reading preferences with them, that was enough for me to sideline him for the moment.
I can't quite understand why Colleen McCollough is on any fabulous Australian author list, but as I haven't read her, I'll just nod and look the other way.
Hal Porter, for those who don't know, wrote an intricately detailed auto-biography (the book on the list). He was known to have said that if you lock yourself away in a room by yourself eventually you'll be able to recall all events in your life from your birth onwards. Apparently, his autobiography is the result of such an exercise. I've heard it's very good if you like that sort of thing, but it just didn't interest me enough conceptually to give it a go.
By the way, for those that like mystery books, Peter Temple (also listed) is a very well-regarded literary mystery writer in Australia. I've got a couple of his books on my TBR list but haven't got to either yet, but
The Broken Shore would probably be the best book to start with.
I'm loving this Australian theme. It allows me to write a bit about books I haven't read yet.
