/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.16726038]

Any books about Australia?

[Anonymous No.16726061]

>>16726038
Do you have any books about Australia?

[Anonymous No.16726070]

This unironically, good anecdotes about Australian life, and recipes too.

[Anonymous No.16726547]

>>16726061
No, that's why I'm asking.

[Anonymous No.16726556]

Can Australians read?

[Anonymous No.16726582]

>>16726556
HUH?

[Anonymous No.16726795]

>>16726556
Yes but Tasmanians can't

>>16726038
You have to be Australian to appreciate Australian literature, which has one of the finest canons of any western country.

[Anonymous No.16726822]

>>16726795
>You have to be Australian to appreciate Australian literature, which has one of the finest canons of any western country.
This. You aren’t gonna appreciate, say moorhouse’s ‘the electrical experience’ if you aren’t Australian (or maybe kiwi)

[Anonymous No.16726834]

>>16726038
This was decent

[Anonymous No.16727309]

bump

[Anonymous No.16727585]

Guess this is an aus literature thread now.
Anyone read miles franklin? Have a bunch of her books lying around, wondering if they're worth picking up.

[Anonymous No.16727595]

>>16726038
Were Australians really shitposting over a hundred years ago?

[Anonymous No.16727781]

>>16726038
A kid on my street great, great, great grandfather or whatever was the police officer who arrested/shot him and his gang. Pretty weird

[Anonymous No.16727803]

>>16727595
Always has been
Always will be
Shitposting land

[Anonymous No.16727806]

>>16727595
>>16727803
Call mates cunts.
Call cunts cunts.
Cunts cunts cunts.

[Anonymous No.16728164]

anyone read Keneally's Australian's trilogy? been meaning to read them

[Anonymous No.16728202]

>>16727781
When you see that kid, punch him in the stomach from me.

[Anonymous No.16728643]

>>16728202
They were really weird. They had a portrait of him in the living room and every time me and my brother would go over there they'd bring it up for some reason. Always thought it was strange since even back then I knew most Australians liked him. The kids were nice but the parents were odd.

[Anonymous No.16728649]

>>16728643
>Proud of killing your hero
That's australia.

[Anonymous No.16728656]

>>16728649
Idk if you're australian but literally all of our media that we export or glorify are criminals, murderers, how nihilistic the outback is, how depressing suburbian life is or other sadistic shit. There is only the abyss

[Anonymous No.16728763]

>>16726822
I am British. I can find the beauty in Australian literature, I am sure of it.

[Anonymous No.16728803]

Honestly who could think Ned Kelly was in the wrong? He repeatedly showed compassion, often endangering his and his crews lives, and is what eventually led to his death in the end.

>The gang estimated that the policemen inside Sherritt's hut would relay news of his murder to Beechworth by early Sunday morning, prompting a special police train to be sent up from Melbourne. They also surmised that the train would collect reinforcements in Benalla before continuing through Glenrowan, a small town in the Warby Ranges. There, the gang planned to wreck the train and shoot dead any survivors, then ride to an unpoliced Benalla where they would rob the banks, set fire to the courthouse, blow up the police barracks, release anyone imprisoned in the gaol, and "generally play havoc with the entire town" before returning to the bush.[98] While Byrne and Dan were in the Woolshed Valley, Ned and Hart tried, but failed, to damage the track at Glenrowan, so they forced line-repairers camped nearby to finish the job. The outlaws selected a sharp curve in the line that ran across a deep ravine, and told their captives that they were going to "send the train and its occupants to hell".[99]
>By Sunday afternoon, the gang had gathered a total of 62 hostages at the hotel. As the hours passed without any sight of the train, the gang insisted that drinks be provided to the townspeople and that music be played.[101] They danced with hostages while the landlady's son sang bushranger ballads, including one about the Kelly gang.[102] Dan and Byrne became fairly drunk; Ned, however, abstained from drinking, and instead staged hop, step and jump and other games with the hostages, who were also encouraged by the bushrangers to amuse themselves with card games.[103] One hostage later testified, "[Ned] did not treat us badly—not at all".[102]
>At about 10 pm, Ned and Byrne captured Glenrowan's lone constable, Bracken, with the assistance of hostage Thomas Curnow, a local schoolmaster who sought to gain the gang's trust in order to thwart their plans. Believing that Curnow was a sympathiser, Ned let him and his wife return home, but warned them to "go quietly to bed and not to dream too loud", as one of the gang would visit during the night. Back at the hotel, Kelly grew increasingly anxious over the train's non-arrival. The delay was caused by the fact that the policemen in Sherritt's hut waited until daylight to emerge and give the alarm, and news of the murder did not reach Melbourne until Sunday afternoon. Only at 1 am on Monday did a police train carrying troopers, native trackers and several journalists steam into Benalla to collect reinforcements. Upon hearing the train's approach at 3 am, Curnow, despite Kelly's warning, rushed to the line and warned the pilot train to stop by raising a lit candle behind a red scarf. He told the driver of the gang's plan. The trains then slowly made their way to Glenrowan.

[Anonymous No.16728805]

>>16728164
I have the first one. I found it kind of dry despite finding the subject matter interesting and didn't stick with it too long but that was coming off the back of reading a lot of Vollmann. Maybe I should give it another shot now that I've been reading statistics textbooks and my expectations have been readjusted.

[Anonymous No.16728816]

>>16728803
probably all that stuff in the first paragraph idk

[Anonymous No.16728834]

>>16728803
He was criminal scum who tried to reinvent his own image.

[Anonymous No.16728849]

>>16726038
The big cop from Warrior is a dead ringer for him.

[Anonymous No.16728880]

>>16728816
You're reading it out of context, the murdered Sherritt was a traitor and turned police informant, and the town they would "play havoc with", that is the peasants living there, would not have been badly effected by it.

As for the police, there was no control over their corruption, and that is what lead to Ned's life of crime.

[Anonymous No.16728884]

>>16728834
>reinvent his own image

[Anonymous No.16728897]

>>16728880
>[australian peasants]
Fuck off seppo scum.

[Anonymous No.16728924]

>>16728897
Is there something wrong for stating the truth? Peasants compromise the town don't they?

[Anonymous No.16728926]

>>16726038
>In the time since his execution, Kelly has been mythologised into a "Robin Hood" character,[169][170] a political icon and a figure of Irish Catholic and working-class resistance to the establishment and British colonial ties.[171] In the Jerilderie Letter, Kelly demands that wealthy squatters share their land with, and redistribute their wealth to, the rural poor, for "it will always pay a rich man to be liberal with the poor ... if the poor is on his side he shall lose nothing by it".[172] For some contemporary commentators, the letter is almost akin to a Communist Manifesto for poor Australian colonists,[76] while reading it has been likened to listening to a radio broadcast by revolutionary Che Guevara.[173] Favourable accounts of Kelly from his captives, and his "public performances" of burning mortgage documents at Euroa and Jerilderie, contributed to his reputation as a man of the people.[174] Even Superintendent Hare flattered Kelly and his gang for their treatment of women and the poor, noting that "they weaved a certain halo of romance and rough chivalry around themselves, which was worth a good deal to them".

Was Ned Kelly a communist?

[Anonymous No.16728944]

>>16728924
No. Australia has never had a peasantry.

[Anonymous No.16729183]

An Australian Ugliness by Robyn Boyd
Pretty good, especially if you're into architecture

[Anonymous No.16729194]

>>16726038
australians can't read OP