Seven weeks ago, I wrote an article describing the upcoming changes to the Australian rugby calendar and the broadcasters’ wish list for further changes. I grappled with what these changes and potential changes would mean for the National Rugby Championship. Most relevantly, I put forward that ...
by Stephen King.On the Beach, by Neville Shute.I Am Legend, by Richard Matheson.Emergence, by David Palmer. I’m sure there are a bunch more, but those stand out for me. Some of the books regarded as classics in the field are missing here because they bored me to tears....
I chose to follow Harry Crews’ model for a first time book: take a favourite novel (Harry Crews: The End of the Affair by Graham Greene, Ken Preston: On the Beach by Nevil Shute) and reduce it to facts and figures, to numbers and statistics. How many scenes? How many characters?