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Jim and Candy want more from life than opportunities in the workplace. They team up, turn to crime, and find happiness in a Recreational Vehicle. This book is an action-packed page-turner with characters who will live on in your memory. Sharp, punchy, fantastic holiday reading.

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September 20, 2011
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mbpardy lives in Australia. He has written plays and short-stories and is the winner of the David Syme short story award, the FAW award, and the Penguin award. This is his first novel.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ice Pty, Limited (September 20, 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 238 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0987179306
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0987179302
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.7 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.6 x 8.5 inches

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mbpardy is the pen name for the Australian author and poet - Michael Pardy. He lives in the sand dunes on the far southern Mornington pensinsula.

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Mr Bouy

Page turning fun

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 13, 2012

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You never know what to expect from a first novel, especially one written by a former colleague. Do I buy it as a souvenir and memento, or is it something I'm going to enjoy? I was immediately sucked into the story, picturing Mr Pardy cycling to work along the foreshore and having an unfortunate accident, but it soon became apparent that Jim was his own character, and I was swept along by the tide of events. The people are real. The places are real. The events could even be real. I couldn't stop reading. Well done!

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Not what I was looking for at the time.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 16, 2016

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Not what I was in the mood for reading. I picked it up several times and just couldn't get through it. A guess the author's brand of humor was quite different than my own.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 28, 2014

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Dislikes: In order to appreciate good books, it sometimes helps to read books that tax your limits of intellectual ennui.

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 9, 2014

Review 1

Bizarre, funny, telling.

Jim and Candy are the unlikely criminal masterminds in this bizarre comedic literature novel hybrid thingamabob by MB Pardy. After running over a dog on his way to get fired, Jim discovers that Candy has, somehow, managed to photocopy an Aussie $20 bill, and it's taken by the change machine at his new job, the car wash. Not one to resist the temptation (after all, he's in debt $3000 to the dog's owner, and he owes on the bills at his cheating girlfriend's apartment), Jim agrees to step it up. They team up with Choco, the government field agent, in an attempt to loot tens of thousands of dollars in coins from the city.

This book rolls cheerfully on through some of the dreariest of literature pit traps: the I'm-pregnant-and-let's-break-up, the sleeping-in-the-car, the slowly-losing-lust-for-life-and-having-my-ambition-crushed, and the hating-the-everyday-drudgery-that-is-life. Through a strange narrative style, the author paints an oddly jovial picture of being broke, in debt, jobless, and heading towards hopeless in modern day Australia.
Characters are interesting and fully fleshed out. Jim, Choco, Renee, Renee's mom, Candy, Emma, and even the bit characters like Jock and Sauvage are compelling, real, and quirky.

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The book's charm is mostly in the bizarre, idiosyncratic quirks and ticks every single character, every single scene, and every single object in the book seems to be packed with. Choco's car has a faulty window. On character logs into his government job as a field agent by reciting a bank account number backwards. Other characters are contestants into a strange reality show. Jim is forced into a pub to have an awkward discussion with someone he thinks may be the cops, because he forgot to put on flip-flops and the concrete's too hot. There are so many odd little idiosyncrasies, and so many strange happenstance scenes that the book reminded me of Snatch or Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, without the violence.

Throughout most of this, the book breaks from convention in an interesting way: by showing character emotion extremely minimally. The audience is left to often wonder just what the heck was meant when Jim or Candy said this or that, or how Renee felt when that one scene concluded. This leaves the book full of short, to-the-point sentences, and the reader gets to do some of the work in deducing how to react.
This, combined with the quirky style of events and characters, meant that I was constantly left guessing.

Lastly, this book has quite a lot to say, between the lines, about the situation of the lives, hopes, dreams, and ambitions of young people in Australia, about the operation of bureaucracy in Australian society.

I give this book two enthusiastic thumbs up, though I'm left to wonder what the book cover has to do with the actual novel itself. Regardless, 5 deserving stars.

Review 2 (4 stars)

After the Dog Died is an interesting book which tells the stories of Jim and Candy, two very different characters with seemingly little connecting them until they team up. Its humorous in an ironic modern pathos kind of way and full of insightful human observations.
I loved the opening sequence with the dog dying. It was gruesome and wonderfully done. The writing is somewhat stilted and stylistic, which I quite enjoyed and felt the author pulled off well for creating a tone for the piece.

In general, the writing could use some sharpening as it relies heavily on "to be" verbs. This seemed to diminish the further into the book I got or perhaps I stopped noticing because the story is quite engaging. I very much enjoyed the social commentary on employment, relationships and the ease with which one can fall off the rails and find themselves in over their heads.

Chapters are split between two stories, which is a fun way to structure a book, however, I had some confusion over the shifting POV ‘s. The author dealt with this issue after I pointed it out to her and I raised my rating from 3 to 4 stars. Overall the editing is sound.
A quirky, unconventional and fun read.

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P. Blevins

What happens when the dog died?

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 16, 2013

I finished reading After the Dog Died by mb pardy. I have to say that it started out very slowly and didn't make sense for a while. After I got into the book, it began to make more sense. Jim runs over a dog with his bike and grossly kills it, makes it to work only to be fired, and finds out his girlfriend is pregnant only to find it isn't his and she asks him to leave. His day after killing the dog wasn't great. His luck seems to be on the bad side for a while. Then he meets Candy who is passing fake $20 bills which she copies on her computer but can't figure out how to get the backside to print. The further in the book you get, the further in trouble Jim gets. You wonder if he will ever find his way out. It ended up being a pretty good book.

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dave binny

When happenstance and opportunity collide

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 16, 2012

A light-hearted tale of accidental criminals who stumble onto larceny in the same way that a law abiding citizen would pick up a dollar coin someone has accidentally dropped. It's not their money, but somehow it's not anyone else's either. Roll in some happenstance and the natural disconnectedness of big beauracracy and you can see how even the most amateur of life's opportunists could get away with the 'big one'.

Mbpardy weaves in some observational humour reminiscent of Seinfeld to give the reader an easy read aimed purely at entertaining the reader. A refreshingly delightful first novel that doesn't try to preach. Or is it? As I witnessed Jim and Candy slide effortlessly into a life of crime, I began to wonder what I would do faced with the right combination of need and opportunity. I hope I never find out. After all, which of us wouldn't pick up that lost dollar coin?

I hope we see Jim and Candy again.

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M. Cox

A fun book about some quirky characters in an interwoven story. A satisfying read that leaves you wanting more!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 9, 2018

I was hooked right at the opening and enjoyed the book the whole way through. The writing is quirky, the characters are fun. It's a fun and easy read -- in a good way. The book is like an indie film and it's a real joy how the characters interact as the story plays out. By the end of the book I wanted more time with Jim! I'm crossing my fingers for a sequel, or an another book with these characters.

There's a subtle humor that runs through the book. It's not slapstick absurd, it's funny in an intelligent way. I giggled here and there throughout the story. I wish all books were this fun!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 25, 2011

This is a book which starts off with a bang but doesn't end with a whimper. The central character "Jim" is not as innocent and as much of a victim of circumstance as he first appears to be.
He begins to take control of his life and make things happen. It was interesting to witness him taking hold of his destiny and navigating through whatever obstacles he confronts as he stumbles along in a life of crime. He even exhibits some of the characteristics of a sociopath as he mires himself deeper in crime.

His partner in crime "Candy" was also clinically self obsessed - perhaps
a comment on Gen Y?

Although essentially a light-hearted look at crime it has shades of "dark'.

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Lorna

After The dog died

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 18, 2013

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This is a book which I read fairly quickly as it kept me interested right to the end. Good storyline and some interesting characters make this a good beach read

Cam Gleeson

Very Melbourne

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Great characters. Interesting story. Takes you on a rags to riches journey via standard beauracracy. A page turner from the start.

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