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Plenty of helpful steps to follow. I find I have forgotten much by the end, so I need to return and extract a precis as a useful template.

An interesting, if anodyne, look at caffeine's role in the society we live in. Made me think about my relationship with the chemical: which I suppose was the point :)

A brave book! So much helpful stuff to unpack and ponder.

My favourite insight was that of the feminine interruption to the largely andro-centric narratives.

Incredibly important for Australians to read. Bruce lost me right at the end when he appealed to Indigenous spirituality as being superior to its Western counterparts, which I don't think follows from the rest of the material at all.

But as a catalogue of Western myopia, self-superiority, and naivete in its engagements with the Australian continent and its First Nations, this is a compelling & vital read.

I ❤️ Shaun Micallef. I think he’s one of Australia’s best comics, and I watch everything he makes in TV.

Where I think he falls down slightly, in TV and in print, is trying to craft a narrative. His penchant for the silly, the surreal and the slapstick is hard to fit into a novel.

I really wanted to like this book, but eventually my min rebelled against the nonsense in search of 10 pages of sane plot.

Surrealism is best served in bites.