I lost interest in tracking down the awards, but thought I might
read the
on-line chapter to see if the Amazon reviewers were right to
praise him so much. I found it wooden and dull, with irritating
factual errors -- the ABC was the "Australian Broadcasting
Commission" when the national network started; the C word is now
Corporation, but he shows it as Company.
One snippet at the start had me really puzzled:
My grandparents had two children, a boy and a girl. They both
attended The Christian Brother's School, were baptized in the
Anglican faith [...]
He's uncomfortable with capitalisation; unable to put his
apostophes where they belong; doesn't explain how a girl got into a
boys' school; or why these Anglican kids went to a Catholic school.
I'm glad I (partly) read this chapter; I know I don't want to buy
the book.
And now, having read all that I've seen here, as well as seen his
web site and his writing, I'm happy to believe the worst.
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