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4.0 out of 5 stars
Not A Fortunate Life, An Amazing Life,
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This review is from: A Fortunate Life (Paperback)
If I could I would give this book 4.5 stars. After reading this book I thought Albert Facey had an AMAZING life. From the age of 8 he did everything there was to do, he experienced every type of situation possible, from having his mother abandon him, an employer whip him, getting lost in the bush for over a week and finding the perfect wife and having a family. He lived a very full life, especially career wise (not suprising considering his working life started when he was 8) and travelled all over the country with one job or another.
I really liked the chapters about his time in the army (before and during WWI) as they reminded me of the letters my Great Grandad Moore (father's mother's father) sent to his family, in fact if I hadn't known better I would have thought they were the written by the same man. I am glad he was able to live to see his book published and made a bestseller as your family will always tell you your creation is great, but the only real way to know is from strangers paying you hard earned money for you work. The only problem I had with it was that he went into a bit too much detail about the mundane stuff. He could have cut out many sentences about having cups of tea or what he had to eat (how did he remember that clearly after 50 years or more anyway) and put more detail into the last 20 or so years of his life. More information about his children for example. I wonder what he could have written if he'd had the time and skills earlier on in his life.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
I was fortunate to discover this book.,
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This review is from: A Fortunate Life (Paperback)
I read this book when living in Australia some ten years ago, as it was assigned reading to a teenage neighbor. It was one of those rare "can't put it down" reads. I promptly bought extra copies and sent them to friends and relatives. My mother and her three sisters all read and loved the book.
The main charm of this autobiography is that it's written in a straightforward manner by someone who could be described as NOT having a fortunate life. Non-Aussies will find the narrative of life in rural Australia during its early days particularly fascinating. It's proof that sometimes a simple story, told in a simple manner, is the best story of all.
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