Comments on: Review of The Dog Stars by Peter Heller. https://grahamclements.com/review-of-the-dog-stars-by-peter-heller/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=review-of-the-dog-stars-by-peter-heller Writer, blogger, and dreamer. Fri, 14 Jun 2013 06:09:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.5 By: Graham Clements https://grahamclements.com/review-of-the-dog-stars-by-peter-heller/#comment-1438 Fri, 14 Jun 2013 06:09:31 +0000 https://grahamclements.com/review-of-the-dog-stars-by-peter-heller/#comment-1438 I'll beg to differ on Carey. Loved the True History of the Kelly Gang, especially as I live in Kelly country. Really liked the way it let the reader decide whether Kelly was just a deluded criminal, or someone who was a victim of society and could have gone on to great things. Also thought Illwhacker, which verges on fantasy, a bit like Bliss, was a great story about how people delude themselves – seems to be a common theme in his books. Loved the film Bliss. And I have a great short story collection of his, that includes a very memorable story where aliens go unicorn hunting. Jack Maggs was okay, took a while to get going, as did My Life as a Fraud. I have about five other of his books in my shelves which I will read eventually, when I want to read something about mankind being deluded, like after the next election, when people are surprised that Tony Abbott's policies fail to stop the Asylum seekers (not that they should be stopped), fail to lower the price of electricity (when he removes the carbon tax), and create a much greater recession than the one we are heading into (when he first sacks about 100,000 public servants and then cuts spending due to the decreased revenue from companies experiencing the recession). But at least house prices will drop, and if you still have a job, you might be able to buy one. All the deluded people, were do they all come from? (With apologies to the Beatles.)

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I hate it when the writing takes me out of the story. Too much emphasis on style in publishing today, not enough on character and story.

I'm not a huge Carey fan either though have respect for his career.

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