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The Breadmaker's Carnival

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Andrew Lindsay shows promise, great promise. He has a wonderful grasp of language and a feel for good, flowing prose. However, I feel there is a lack of proper attention to the building of "story" on an overall level that diminishes this novel.

I admit that I did not finish reading it. What is telling is that I just couldn't go on, I just couldn't keep up interest, and I finish what I begin 99% of the time. In fact, the only other book I can recall that I couldn't finish was Barker's Imagica. The problem with Breadmaker's Carnival is that despite its promising and imaginative plot device, the early chapters are devoid of the kind of action that propels a story. Sex, sex, sex. Too much concentration on sexual elements become a bore rather than titillating for the mature reader. ....

It well may be that the denouement of this novel is stunning, but that won't do the reader much good if they can't read enough to get to it. Check it out at your local library for a trial run before buying.

they are food, sex, expressing oneself and religion. Lindsay did it in such a way only someone has theatre training can do. The best book I read in recent years.

The Breadmaker's Carnival is one of the most original works by an Australian writer that I have read. An imaginary Italian village of bizarre and humorous characters and events. I just loved this book and could not put it down. Can't wait for this writer's next work of fiction which I believe is nearing completion while he spends the next 6 months in Rome. Love Andrew Lindsay's style of writing and bizarre and wonderfully refreshing humour. -

This book is full of ego ... a real show of off with overblown language and a story that isn't going anywhere ... an australian approapriation of magical realism ... I had to throw the book against the wall a couple of times. I did try to finish it, but couldn't

The reviewer above is a moron who failed to read one of Australia's best examples of wild writing.

I read a chapter portion (all the chapters are 2-6 pages long) to my reading group and it shocked the hell outta them!

Throughout 300 pages of short hits Andrew Lindsay keeps comedy, sex and tragedy alive with smells of bread and excretion playing off a wide pool of characters. The final third of the story burns with pace and is concluded fittingly.

This is the best Australian novel to date I have read (read the media reviews and all will be confirmed).