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eZyT

Tiger Legend
Jun 28, 2019
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Just read "All the Rage" by Paulie Stewart, Painters and Dockers

What a journey through Melbourne's golden era of rock n roll
Beer was cheap, carpets were sticky and ashtrays overflowing

Didnt realise his brother was one of the Balibo 5

And yep I'm gunna take good care of my liver

Hep C and other liver failing is to that cohort of musos,

What rooted brains is to footballer of the same era.

Im about to try slay a literary dragon,

Poor fellow, my country by xavier herbet.

I only know 2 people who have completed this 2 kilograms of tiny script.

Ive got to admit, im not the slightest bit confident.

I havnt even opened it, and its weighing on me
 

Tiger44

Tiger Superstar
Sep 23, 2005
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Just finished reading Neil Balme - A Tale of Two Men by Anson Cameron. Excellent read, well written and of great interest to all tiger faithful. Shows what a significant character he is and has been for a long time now. We are very lucky to have him at Tigerland.

The only bit I found difficult to fathom was the love by both Nathan Buckley and Chris Scott for Balmy. (which seemed to be reciprocated)

Highly recommended.

T44
 
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DavidSSS

Tiger Legend
Dec 11, 2017
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I am most of the way through The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow. It is a fascinating book challenging our view of how human society has developed over millennia and showing how conventional views of the "evolution" of human society into cities, the impact of agriculture etc are not based on evidence.

Good Reads describes it as follows:

A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality—and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation.

For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike—either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful critiques of European society posed by Indigenous observers and intellectuals. Revisiting this encounter has startling implications for how we make sense of human history today, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilization itself.

Drawing on pathbreaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles and perceive what’s really there. If humans did not spend 95 percent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume.

The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision, and a faith in the power of direct action.

Fascinating stuff. Reveals just how much of what is assumed to have taken place is based on flimsy or no evidence and on assumptions.

DS
 
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spook

Kick the f*ckin' goal
Jun 18, 2007
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Finally got around to reading George Megalogenis' The Football Solution: How Richmond's Premiership Can Save Australia. A lot of history about Richmond the suburb and the club, and George's personal affiliation, before it gets into where we went wrong under and post-GR, failed to modernise, etc, to when we got it oh so right, and the lessons politics could learn from it. Good read.
 
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bigwow

Tiger Legend
Jul 24, 2003
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Just started reading this, hooked in the first few pages.
Also shocked to find that Van Conner, also from The Screaming Trees, passed away earlier this year.
 
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TT33

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Feb 17, 2004
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I've just finished reading the book "Ruthless Richmond" by Dan Eddy, itwas released in JuneI think. It's about the Carlton & Richmond rivalry, starting in the early 60s & culminating in 1973 Grand Final.
Its a very good read & tells the story from both sides. I believe it is also sold under the name of "Brilliance & Brutality"

There's a lot of player interviews, & background of all teams throughout that that era.

I really enjoyed reading it.

I was lucky enough to get it & "TheTale of Two Men" Signed by Balmey at a recent function.

As Molly Meldrum says "Do yourself a favour" & get a copy, I'm sure you'll enjoy it.
 
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spook

Kick the f*ckin' goal
Jun 18, 2007
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Haven't done much book reading over the past couple of years so I eased back into it over the break with James Elroy's Clandestine and Robert Ludlum's The Ambler Warning. What you'd expect from each, enjoyable page turners.
 
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