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21 Jun 14
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Anyone else read it and how do they rate it?
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Read it long time back rate it 6/10 Starts off good liked Bill's tactics and fearlessness.
felt the book lost it's way 3/4 when Perkins builds up this so called big bombshell which turns out to be a fizzer. Still an ok read. |
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The ending is really sh1t.
 I'm not sure why an ex 1500m swimmer is writing biography’s anyway. |
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Really good book, fascinating reading about the betting duels, felt for the bloke who got out only to lose on a protest then did the lot
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Read it many decades ago ......one of the few books I have read from cover to cover....remember it to be a good read.....world has changed ....grandson just sold out for $35 million...
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......one of the few books I have read from cover to cover....
Fancy admitting to that on the forum!! Who the fckk is Kevin Perkins? Do you mean the bloke that was Peter Brock's co-driver at Bathurst? |
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He was a very good investigative reporter if I remember correctly he'd been pestering Waterhouse for years about writing his story and if I recall what the book said and said he was going to write it without or without his cooperation and in the end waterhouse agreed to cooperate.
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So it's the book about Waterhouse?
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If I recall ..I think some States had an injunction restraining its sale for a long time.....
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why?
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"This book has had more publicity than Lady Chatterley's Lover."
And sold about a million fewer copies!!! |
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I think its sale was banned throughout Australia I bought my copy in NZ a long, long, time ago when the ban was in place
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Overall it is well written and interesting, with some parts that drag on a bit. Seems the water houses had a few enemies even back then
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Didn't the Waterhouse family pay him to write the book ?
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Castiron,
As usual, you are on the money. Perkins was a Waterhouse flookey... |
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What's a flookey?
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Similar to a lackey I think DA
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The chapters on the fine cotton ring in affair where interesting
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Think it's a lucky flunkey DA
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