I don’t hate Peter Carey the way this guy does, but I did find this review of Carey’s latest to be very hilarious. I find Carey more…weird…and unsettling…rather than “bad”. The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith for example, really creeped me out. But I didn’t think it was badly written. (Oscar and Lucinda was a very weird movie. Not necessarily bad, but definitely weird. Why? Because it was based on a Carey book!)

That said, I think his commenters are dead wrong on Tim Winton. As you may remember, I LOVED LOVED LOVED Cloud Street and highly recommend it.