Peter Dann

Former screenwriter and technical writer. Novelist. Have read many audiobooks for Librivox (eg, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, Katherine Mansfield).

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Yay! "Dann’s prose skillfully captures Ralph’s sullen perspective, particularly in dialogue... (R)eaders will be charmed by Dann’s now exotic-seeming world of early 1960s Australia and find themselves thoroughly immersed throughout." - Kirkus Reviews https://t.co/TWQe7wObq7

[Peter Dann @peterdannauthor]

Galsworthy claimed his subject was "the inroads of beauty and passion", but it is the darker forces of passion that truly to catch his imagination. My free reading of "The Man of Property" is out now: https://t.co/8GtczSkFPH

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Democratic superpower (Athens 431 BCE) catastrophically over-reaches itself. Plus ça change. My reading of Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian War is now a free audiobook on Librivox: https://t.co/Pz2pB2PvCw

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What a miserly contribution. And Russian oil is still reaching our fuel tanks with no government intervention. Pathetic!

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@John_Attridge So, not just a classic example of bamboozlement, then?

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What a shallow piece. The problem with cliché is not that it is “lazy”, but that it represents dead space on the page. Is that not completely, blindingly obvious to all? https://t.co/vH9sUCYa0P

[Peter Dann @peterdannauthor]

Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul... I return to Melville's ludicrous, magnificent "Moby Dick. My free reading is now out on Librivox: https://t.co/TNCK7jryI6

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@thebooksdesk @Boppedoff Three: The Crimes; The Questions; Organico

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Sometimes I just need to remind myself how powerful great writing can be…

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@John_Attridge All these damn forces! And yeah, when their conjunctions are “weird”, that’s always a real killer diller. As for “queer conjunctions”… ah, but that’s another question altogether.

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@John_Attridge Actually, if it doesn’t, there’s something kinda wrong with you as a reader, I reckon.

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@kunktation @thebooksdesk What did you do about it?

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@John_Attridge If you hadn’t spent the first 50 minutes trying to explain the ironic to the moronic…

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@John_Attridge @EmmettStinson Not sure if it counts as a “male reader”, exactly, but I have to wonder if ChatGPT has skipped DFW entirely thus far. Hardly ever see it throwing out an illuminating footnote to a footnote to a footnote.

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@John_Attridge “Stuff happens. It’s all terribly upsetting.” What else do you really need to know?

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@fstflofscholars @blgtylr I used this translation for my free Librivox reading at https://t.co/Eho9gI3lQD

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Couldn’t say yes. Couldn’t say sorry. So appropriate Senator Prince is now spokesperson for absolutely nothing.

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Noddle-head decides he is a knight-errant, and asks local farm labourer to accompany him. Cervantes milks his premise with great skill, creating much warm-hearted silliness and slapstick. My free reading is now at https://t.co/TmQZUpJI27

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@thebooksdesk This is good news indeed. I am truly perplexed as to why this extraordinary novel has not found a wider readership among people looking for signs of intelligent life in the Australian literary scene.

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Am very much enjoying “The Suavity of the Rock”, off-putting title notwithstanding. Not completely sure @Greg_Gerke has his arithmetic here right, however. Or am I misreading this passage?

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@thebooksdesk Title not perhaps the best omen for one about to undertake a long journey at 40,000 feet sitting alongside complete strangers — but who am I to say?