Karen
The opening blurb paragraph:
Whether you know it as the ‘succulent Chinese meal’ video, or ‘democracy manifest’, chances are you have seen the video of baritone larrikin Jack Karlson getting arrested outside a Brisbane Chinese restaurant in 1991. The Guardian called it ‘perhaps the pre-eminent Australian meme of the last 10 years’.
Was really all the reason I reserved a copy of the audio of this book at the library. I'd heard of the 'succulent Chinese meal' arrest and after Jack Karlson died and everyone started talking about him again, I realised that I didn't know much about the back story at all.
Got three quarters of the way through listening to this book though and decided it was either not the best choice in audio or that it seemed to be talking about everybody BUT Jack Karlson. Either way I had to throw in the towel.
Originally posted at www.austcrimefiction.org.
The opening blurb paragraph:
Whether you know it as the ‘succulent Chinese meal’ video, or ‘democracy manifest’, chances are you have seen the video of baritone larrikin Jack Karlson getting arrested outside a Brisbane Chinese restaurant in 1991. The Guardian called it ‘perhaps the pre-eminent Australian meme of the last 10 years’.
Was really all the reason I reserved a copy of the audio of this book at the library. I'd heard of the 'succulent Chinese meal' arrest and after Jack Karlson died and everyone started talking about him again, I realised that I didn't know much about the back story at all.
Got three quarters of the way through listening to this book though and decided it was either not the best choice in audio or that it seemed to be talking about everybody BUT Jack Karlson. Either way I had to throw in the towel.
Originally posted at www.austcrimefiction.org.