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| Topics | | messages | Last message | | | 50 Book Challenge : SusanJ's 50 book challenge for 2009 | | 90 | susanj67, Friday 7:43am |  |
| Non-Fiction Readers : All time favorite non-fiction reads | | 97 | LynnB, November 11 | |
| Dewey Decimal Challenge : Zoe's 1000s Challenge | | 78 | fundevogel, October 27 | |
| Dewey Decimal Challenge : varielle's | | 18 | bfertig, October 5 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What Are You Reading the Week of September 5, 2009? | | 255 | AnneH, September 15 | |
| Non-Fiction Readers : ...and to think that I saw it on LibraryThing | | 26 | TheFlamingoReads, September 12 | |
| Australian LibraryThingers : Recommendations for a student? | | 17 | wookiebender, August 5 | |
| Australian LibraryThingers : Five of your personal favorite Australian novels, please! | | 91 | middletm, July 22 | |
| Go Review That Book! : Game Thread 3 | | 250 | lilyfyrestorm, June 23 | |
| 999 Challenge : merry10's 999 challenge | | 51 | merry10, June 23 | |
| I want to read that! : koalamom's updated list | | 22 | koalamom, June 19 | |
| Club Read 2009 : pamelad's reading 2009 | | 85 | pamelad, June 13 | |
| Club Read 2009 : ClubRead Recommendations - Non-Fiction | | 22 | MarianV, June 2 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : Books Brought Home, May 2009 | | 241 | nzurisana, May 30 | |
| Book talk : A Silly Boo Game/Part 6 | | 300 | SqueakyChu, May 29 | |
| Non-Fiction Readers : Solid non-fiction | | 67 | ThePam, May 13 | |
| The Green Dragon : Most HATED books | | 199 | cal8769, April 19 | |
| Reading Globally : New Australian Literature | | 78 | Thrin, April 14 | |
| Non-Fiction Readers : March 2009: What nonfiction are you reading? | | 90 | Essa, March 31 | |
| Canadian Bookworms : March 2009: What are you reading? | | 42 | LynnB, March 31 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : The Gathering Place expands some more! | | 227 | callmejacx, January 1 | |
| Dewey Decimal Challenge : dressel26's Dewey list | | 7 | E59F, December 2008 | |
| A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: Fall 2008 Reading Group : Walk up the gangplank HERE! | | 49 | jdthloue, November 2008 | |
| Folio Society devotees : 2009 Books | | 131 | chase.donaldson, October 2008 | |
| Girlybooks : What books by and/or about women are you reading Sept. | | 98 | urania1, October 2008 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : A Year of Australian Literature - suggestions? | | 45 | ianw, September 2008 | |
| Australian LibraryThingers : australian non-fiction | | 11 | mrspenny, September 2008 | |
| Non-Fiction Readers : Message Board | | 94 | FicusFan, August 2008 | |
| Non-Fiction Readers : What nonfiction are you reading in June 2008? | | 93 | orangeena, July 2008 | |
| Reading Globally : Aboriginal Australian literature | | 45 | amandameale, June 2008 | |
| List Five Books Parlour Game : Nice place to visit... | | 17 | jhedlund, May 2008 | |
| Dormant: Book talk : Book Titles that Miscued You as the Reader | | 14 | CEP, November 2007 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What books came into your home today? - September 2007 | | 147 | thioviolight, October 2007 | |
| Dormant: Reading Globally : Where in the World Are You Now? September 2007 | | 155 | digifish_books, October 2007 | |
| Dormant: Reading Globally : Australian and New Zealand Fiction | | 33 | aarti, September 2007 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 18 August 2007 | | 155 | cdyankeefan, August 2007 | |
| Dormant: Fans of Russian authors : The Gulag Archipelago by Sozhenitsyn | | 8 | wyrdchao, August 2007 | |
| Dormant: Non-Fiction Readers : What Non-Fiction Are You Reading Now - July 2007 | | 87 | drneutron, August 2007 | |
| Dormant: Reading Globally : Colonial and Postcolonial fiction | | 54 | A_musing, August 2007 | |
| Dormant: List Five Books Parlour Game : Allusions | | 285 | christiguc, August 2007 | |
| Dormant: Historical Fiction : History through fiction | | 99 | d.homsher, May 2007 | |
| Dormant: What did YOU buy today? : Message Board | | 397 | aluvalibri, April 2007 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 9 Sep 2006 | | 89 | janehyde, November 2006 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 16 Sep 2006 | | 87 | nickhoonaloon, October 2006 | |
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The only 98x I've read is an archaeology book that probably wouldn't be of interest, but for 99x I've read Robert Hughes' The Fatal Shore and Greg Dening's Mr. Bligh's Bad Language, both of which are quite readable, although the former can be a bit grim and the latter is rather irritatingly ... #210 lkernagh, I loved The Fatal Shore too.
Just starting The Draining Lake by Arnaldur Indridason... diversifying my Scandinavian crime reading away from Henning Mankell! #139 Smiley - No, I haven't read The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes. A quick search of my local library's on-line catalog shows not one but two copies in the library near my work so I will be making a stop at the library tomorrow to check the book out... Thank you for the bringing it to my ... 121-Ikernagh,
Have you read The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes? The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes - Australia's history as a penal colony.
24. The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes. This was really interesting, although a long read, and when you have things from the library I think you always feel slightly pressured to get through them in time. I think if I'd bought this book I would have taken longer with it, but I didn't skip! I'm ... Hello coppers - I'm about half-way through The Fatal Shore and I'm really enjoying it, although there are plenty of grim bits in it. I read a review of it ages ago and it was on my list, but I never got further than that, and then about a month ago I was talking to a friend's mother who gets ... Hi and welcome! I read Don't let's Go to the Dogs Tonight a few years ago and loved it. How are you enjoying The Fatal Shore? I read it twice and really enjoyed it (obviously, I guess!). ... looks at different people. I loved it, and must look out for other things that this author has written. But back now to The Fatal Shore, which is 600 pages of very small printing - gulp! ... by Kwame Anthony Appiah
Guns Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
The War of the World by Niall Ferguson
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
Oranges by John McPhee
The Vintage Mencken by H.L. Mencken
Empires of the Word by Nicholas Ostler
and on a more personal, ... ... Up Real Books...but some of us need out Techie Toys too....and you got a very good haul ;-)
>25...i hope you love Fatal Shore as much as i do..it's well worth the wait..and the time you'll need to read it....;-) From Bookmooch:
Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes. This book has been on my mental wishlist forever, easily over 20 years and now that I have it, I need to squeeze it in somewhere. The ongoing dilemma of an over-burdened reader! Please don't start singing again McKait!! "The happy homes of tens of thousands of families who were lately your neighbours"
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
"But was it correct?"
"Nobody knew, and many of the prisoners on Norfolk Island apparently believed that he had 'done time' himself."
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
"Why so few convictions?" "He explained the plan."
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
"Were convicts, in fact, slaves?" "...in and beyond Botany Bay."
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
"Once a decade or 60 times a day?" I'm reading The Fatal Shore: The epic of Australia's founding by Robert Hughes. I'm about to launch into Fatal Shore: The epic of Australia's founding by Robert Hughes. ... Australian fiction than I do. For shame. Interested to hear what you think of those on your list, tiffin. I've only read The Fatal Shore - very good. Looking for some recommendations because I'm bogged down. Nothing too tragic because once I make it to the end of The Fortunes of Richard Mahon ... ... Olsen
The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway
Voss by Patrick White
Riders in the Chariot by Patrick White
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
I think there might be a couple of others in the Virago TBR pile. ... is on the book page here on LibraryThing.
Thanks, xicanti, for suggesting I review it.
Widsith, please review The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes - I've had it on my TBR list for years and want to know what you think of it!
I will review books that are tagged TBR in my library. ... Keneally
Visitants, Randolph Stow
Grand Days, Frank Moorhouse
The Buladelah-Taree Holiday Song Cycle, Les Murray
The Fatal Shore, Robert Hughes
The Plains, Gerald Murnane
Monkey Grip, Helen Garner
Our Sunshine, Robert Drewe
True History of the Kelly Gang, Peter Carey
Lili ... ... by Peter Temple
The Spare Room by Helen Garner by Tolz
The Riders by Tim Winton
Oyster by Janette Turner Hospital
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
Jill Ker Conway- True North
Doris Pilkington wrote Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence
Patrick White - Riders in the Chariot. Australian authors:
The Riders by Tim Winton
Oyster by Janette Turner Hospital
Non-Fiction:
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes ... in Pirate Books with a Twist..i can suggest High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes...and if you want a serious read,,readThe Fatal Shore by, uh Robert Hughes..one's a fiction..t'other might wish it was..ta ... - George Dawson, Richard Glaubman
Ethnic America: A history - Thomas Sowell Like everything I have read by him
The Fatal Shore: the epic of Australia's founding - Robert Hughs
Witness - Whittaker Chambers
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918 - 1956, Volume 1; An Experiment in Literar ... The Fatal Shore is excellent, I totally agree with cmt. cmt - hope you enjoy The Idea of Perfection as much as I did. No, I have not read The Fatal Shore but will look out for it. ... who loved the Secret river! I've just bought the Idea of Perfection and am looking forward to it. Have you read The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes? It's a doorstop of a book but another great read - all about transportation and early Australian history. ... compared to the munificent offers to the transports in Oz (no offence to the good folk from down under--I've been reading The Fatal Shore). It seems like we in the US and Switzerland are considered easy marks by the Society (and from the size of overthemoon's Folio library, they may be right). ... Just started The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes which has received a lot of comments in this forum in past months. Also slowly making my way through Classical Apologetics by R.C. Sproul. ... Century Journey Across South America
986 - Sweat of the Sun, Tears of the Moon: A Chronicle of an Incan Treasure
994 - The Fatal Shore
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes, a history of the colonization of Australia. ... of Aboriginal Australia edited by Peter Sutton, and The Whispering in our Hearts by Henry Reynolds.
History: The Fatal Shore, The Future Eaters by Tim Flannery, The Great Shame by Thomas Keneally, Manning Clark's History of Australia, and 1788 by Watkin Tench, ... ... to do with the youth work exchange laws, too, I'd imagine. :)
You want some older school, given you are delving into The Fatal Shore how about :-
For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Clarke for the convict experience.
Robbery Under Arms by Rolf Boldrewood = classic Au ... ... recommendations (which is what the user asked for in the first place).
As it stands now, I hope to do a quick reread of The Fatal Shore, read Carpentaria, and maybe a Patrick White novel. (btw, thanks for that thread re: favorite bookstores, it could come in handy).
So, FIVE of YOUR ... ... so many books recommended on Library Thing: Midnights: A Year with the Wellfleet Police; Basque History of the World; Fatal Shore; Strange Piece of Paradise; The Year of Living Biblically are the ones that come to mind.
I joined the Singleton Showcase group, but get some many ... It gets better.....in my local library (NOT in a bookstore), I found The fatal shore by Robert Hughes, a story of the colonization of Australia, among fiction. No, it was not misplaced.....IT HAD BEEN CATALOGUED AS FICTION!!!!!! ... States The birth of empire: DeWitt Clinton and the American experience
994 General history of other areas; Australia The fatal shore
996 General history of other areas; Other parts of Pacific Polynesia Mr. Bligh's bad language The Birth House
Valleys of the Assassins
The Red Tent
The Fatal Shore
The Dominion of Wyley McFadden ... Drabble
The Ethical Canary by Margaret Somerville
Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles by Margaret George
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
The Secret Book of Grazia dei Rossi by Jacqueline Park
Wideacre by Philippa Gregory
Perfect Love by Elizabeth Buchan ... Well then, maybe I'll stick with Australia as a theme and after finishing The Fatal Shore, I'll start The Secret River :-) A good segue, really, as they're both about colonization! But I have to wait for Secret River to *arrive* first. ... but haven't read those, either. And now I'm back home, but am finally getting on track by reading Australian NON-fiction, The Fatal Shore. So basically... I'm going in a very roundabout fashion, but will take everyone's suggestions into account! ... Canoes that is about Aboriginal life before the English came in and settled?
I'm currently reading Robert Hughes' The Fatal Shore, which is about the English settlement of Australia. But the more I learn about Australia, the more interested in the Aboriginal culture I become- maybe ... I'm in colonial Australia with The Fatal Shore- quite interesting :-) Read the Fatal Shore more than a few years back and liked it very much. Also gave me an urge to visit Australia, which I haven't done yet. #62 I read The Fatal Shore many years ago. Since then, I've longed to visit Australia. >62 I got about halfway through The Fatal Shore and gave up. While, as you said, it was interesting, after awhile it just got repetitive.
For instance, people got treated badly, so they rebelled. People got treated badly, so they rebelled. People got treated badly, so they rebelled. Rinse, ... Currently working on Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson which I'm enjoying a great deal so far, and The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes which is fascinating but a bit of a slower read. But I recently moved, and I now have a three hour round-trip train ride to work in the morning, so now ... >42 wyrdchao
I do understand what you are saying about The Fatal Shore. But the thing is, I have only so much time available for reading, and my TBR list is a mile long. I would be willing to put forth that kind of effort for the Civil War, or the Klondike gold rush. But (apologies to Austra ... ... 1-3, spread over a few years. Had the same problem, finding all the books.
That said, it's a very similar experience to The Fatal Shore; horrific but well worth the time and effort to get through; and Solzhenitsyn's sense of humor is what keeps you going. His description of the military ... The Fatal Shore IS tough. Stick it out, it's pretty horrific, but well worth it in the end; and it seems to be the only good history of 'penal' Australia that exists. This book is a great example of the 'professional' non-fiction book as opposed to the 'journalistic' one.
Many people find ... I too got bogged down with The Fatal Shore. I recall I got to just beyond the night of mayhem with the female prisoners who had just been transported. Which was not very far. I have friends in Australia and have always wanted to go there, but I'm going to have to find out about it some other ... ... this would be a good thread to start with. I'm currently reading the following:
Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris
Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
Benjamin Franklin by Walter Issacson
Under the Black Flag: the romance and the reality of life among the pirates by David Cordingl ... ... Kathy Lette
Pip by Freya North
Late for the wedding by Jayne Ann Krentz
Jack Maggs by Peter Carey
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes ... the book. When I see The Secret River in the library, I'm going to scoop it up.
I'm currently trying to wade through The Fatal Shore, the popular history of Australia's convict past, but I've gotten kinda stalled halfway through. The book is alternately engrossing and repetitive. I, too, must add myself to the growing list of names recommending The Raj Quartet and Amitav Ghosh and The Fatal Shore, the latter being is a wonderfully accessible history book. ... but I think the following books might be of interest. They all are about Australia. The only non fiction is The fatal shore by Robert Hughes, a history of the colonization of Australia.
The trilogy of The timeless land, No barrier, and Storm of time by Eleanor Dark; ... ... repetitive.
Flowers in the Attic
I had fond rememberances of reading this as a teen. I should have left it there.
The Fatal Shore
I really wanted to finish this book and got about 2/3 through. But again, it got boringly repetitive.
I read a lot of non-fiction, particularly history. My favourites include The Fatal Shore, The Victorian Underworld and Hooligan: A History of Respectable Fears. I first read the last two when I was 18, leading to a lifetime's fascination with social history. In the last few years I've become ... ... novels into reading non-fiction works on the same period, so I have a collection of history books that complement novels - The Fatal Shore accompanies Keneally's The Playmaker, for instance.
* Yes, fiction. :) ... a 99p novel from their promotional range (The Innocent, this week).
Yesterday it was two volumes of Australian history (The Fatal Shore and Dancing With Strangers) as a result of watching The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant, and a Kim Stanley Robinson novel just because. I never ... Going to finish up The Blue Noon by Robert Ryan (lightweight reading0 and try to go back to The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes The trouble I am having with the Hughes book is trying to visualize the geography of the area that the various tribes roamed. He has maps in the beginning of the ... ... of some easier reads. I will get back to it soon though. I'll let you know then how I liked it. Right now I'm reading The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes which is about the settlement of australia by penal colonies. I've always been curious about it so now I will have a chance to satisfy ...
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