“The Move” Giveaway #3 (AUS Only)

Let’s keep moving with “The Move”!!

A Quick Review of the last read: You Wouldn’t Be Dead for Quids by Robert G. Barrett

The two things you’d have to keep in mind when reading this book is that it’s the 80s and Les Norton is an absolutely true blue Aussie 😉

Being Aussie, it’s all about the idea of ‘fair go and you just gotta be able to take a piss at yourself. I reckon this is what this book is all about.

The book seriously surprised me; was completely off my rocker! It’s a lot more funny than I ever expected it to be (even though it’s mostly polictically incorrect), heaped with violence (again keep in mind that it’s the 80s in Kings Cross and Norton is a bouncer), lots of drinking (& drink driving! *grimace*), sex, and “fair dinkum” peppered throughout the book.

About Les:

…he was just a shade under six feet…  he did have exceptionally long, think sinewy arms covered in bristly red hairs and at the end of them dangled two massive gnarled hands, the fingers literally like Fijian bananas, the knuckles like fifty cent coins… 

As far as looks go Les wasn’t ugly, but he was no Robert Redford either.  His scrubby red hair topped a pair of dark, brooding eyes set in a wide square face, and with his lantern jaw and the mandatory broken nose of a bouncer Les looked pretty much exactly what he was.  His one outstanding feature was a pair of immensely bushy eyebrows, that caused the owner of the casino where Les worked to nickname him Yosemite Sam after a character in the Bugs Bunny show on TV.  And whenever Les was about to go into action with his fists those big bushy eyebrows would bristle like the hairs on a dog’s back.

And lastly, just a sample of “politically incorrect” Aussie humor (LOL)

‘Turn it up Billy,’ replied Norton, ‘I wouldn’t be seen dead with that big fat thing.’

‘She’s not that fat.’

‘Not that fat? She looks like some one’s been up her arse with a bike-pump. If she ever fell over she’d rock herself to sleep trying to get back up.’

‘Now she’s not that bad.’

‘Not that bad. Have a look at her big fat head.  She’s got more chins than the Hong Kong phone book.  I reckon if there was a peeping-tom in her neighbourhood he’d pull her blind down.’

  Next Up: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith (thanks, Heav!)

Entries will be received up to midnight of Sunday, 27th May 2012).  To enter, just leave a  comment with your name and contact details (it doesn’t have to be your email address – it could be your goodreads profile etc just as long as I can get a message to you).  Only the winner will be contacted and you’ll have 48 hours to respond.

While you’re here, you can also nominate the next book I should read and therefore give away NEXT 😉

My list of books (alphabetical order of author’s last name):

1. Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer
2. The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw
3. You Wouldn’t Be Dead for Quids by Robert G. Barrett
4. Murphy’s Law (Molly Murphy Mysteries 1) by Rhys Bowen
5. Jane Slayre: The Literary Classic… with a blood-sucking twist by Charlotte Bronte & Sherri Browning Erwin
6. Musk & Byrne by Fiona Capp (ARC Edition)
7. The Cairo Diary by Maxime Chattam
8. The Coffin Dancer by Jeffery Deaver
9. Avalanche by Jack Drummond
10. The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans
11. Code to Zero by Ken Follett
12. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
13. Shadows on the Aegean by Suzanne J Frank
14. Sunrise of the Mediterranean by Suzanne J Frank
15. Duet by Kimberley Freeman
16. The Perfect Husband (Quincy & Rainie 1) by Lisa Gardner
17. The Third Victim (Quincy & Rainie 2) by Lisa Gardner
18. The Next Accident (Quincy & Rainie 3) by Lisa Gardner
19. The Killing Hour (Quincy & Rainie 4) by Lisa Gardner
20. Gone (Quincy & Rainie 5) by Lisa Gardner
21. The Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George
22. Marathon Man by William Goldman
23. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
24. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
25. Birdman by Mo Hayder
26. Surrender by Sonya Hartnett
27. 1788 by David Hill
28. Arctic Chill by Arnaldur Indridason
29. Voices by Arnaldur Indridason
30. Ironweed by William Kennedy
31. The Last 10 Seconds by Simon Kernick
32. Highways to a War by Christopher J Koch
33. Grace Notes by Bernard MacLaverty
34. An Imaginary Life by David Malouf
35. Legacy: A Novel by James A. Michener
36. Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener
37. The Official Fahrenheit 9/11 Reader by Michael Moore
38. The Silent Country by Di Morrissey
39. Secret Ones (Dream of Asarlai 1) by Nicole Murphy (ARC copy)
40. Green Mountains by Bernard O’Reilly
41. Thirteen Steps Down by Ruth Rendell
42. A Sense of the World by Jason Roberts
43. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
44. Tully by Paullina Simons
45. Devil’s Corner by Lisa Scottoline
46. A Bend in the Road by Nicholas Sparks
47. Handpicked by Siew Siang Tay
48. The Chimney Sweeper’s Boy by Barbara Vine
49. The Aunt’s Story by Patrick White
50. Culture is… :Australian Stories Across Cultures – An Anthology edited by Anne-Marie Smith