Julian Corkle is a Filthy Liar
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The funniest debut novel since Tom Sharpe’s Riotous Assembly, only it’s set in Tasmania!
Julian Corkle's got small-screenability. His mother tells him he'll be a star one day. 'Twinkle, twinkle,' she says, giving his hair a ruffle.
Not everyone shares Julian's dreams of stardom. Television is too much like hairdressing for his father's tastes. A Tasmanian man wants a son for sporting purposes. 'Boys don't like dolls,' he tells Julian, 'They like Dinky Toys.' Not this boy, thinks Julian, who knows better than to tell the truth.
Besides, the family already has a sporting hero, Julian's sister Carmel aka 'The Locomotive'. Julian likes his sister, but knows better than to tangle with her bowling arm. It's the same one she uses for punching.
Julian Corkle is a Filthy Liar is the ultimate feel-good novel, a book that will have the reader laughing out loud on the back of a bus as it follows Julian's bumpy journey through adolescence, fibbing his way through school and a series of dead-end jobs, to find his ultimate calling as creator of 'The Hog'. It's as if Crocodile Dundee has crashed Muriel's wedding and run off into the desert with Priscilla.
D. J. Connell
D.J. Connell was born in New Zealand and has lived and worked in various countries, first as a writer for a newspaper, then for a non-profit organisation. D.J. Connell is a British national, currently living in London.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Julian Corkle was destined to be different, his mother recognised his talent at his birth, his pizzazz, even if his beer drinking sports mad father thought otherwise, all he wanted was for his son to be a sports enthusiast too. But his mother believes in his small-screenability, and encourages Julian even if he does prefers dolls to cricket balls, and his favourite pastime is styling her hair. So for Julian not the medical career as a doctor that his older brother strives for (unless it is to be a nurse), nor the sports career his ultra-butch sister looks to be heading for. No, Julian aims to be a star of the small screen, all he needs is that luck break to prove himself.Julian narrates his own account of his struggle through school, where he survives by his wits, having enough sense to hide (temporarily) his difference, that is his preference for attractive boys and his colourful feminine tastes. He takes us through the disastrous family move from small-town Ulerstone, Tasmania, to Hobart, his early departure from school and his efforts to make that vital connection that will lead to stardom. But it seems he and his mother are the only ones to appreciate his talents. Julian Corkle is a Filthy Liar is an hilarious record of Julian's attempts to succeed, a very different coming of age tale. He quickly wins the reader's heart in his no holds barred account of his more often than not failures to achieve his goal, his refusal to keep his flamboyance hidden, and his not to be thwarted belief in himself. When he does eventually meet with success, it is not quite as he imagined it, yet he is nonetheless happy for it. Julian Corkle . . . is an endearing and extremely funny tale.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This book has a lot of things right, but somehow does not quite do it for me. I like getting a sense of how it could have been growing up in Tasmania in the 70s, being anything but a typical teenageer- and wanting to be anything but a typical teenager. In a way, that´s how Julian survives, and what makes the book funny, but at the same time, it also makes the story very predictable.. inspite of the unpredictability of Julian´s stories. Take a teenager with penache, love of glitter, Elizabeth Taylor and David Bowie, with a doting mother, a sister who only cares about sports and also plays in the other league, school full of bigoted Brothers and bullies that are ignorant...all and all, not a bad book at all, I do laugh now and again, but.. I am not loving it. Give me The skipped parts or My most excellent year any day. Or, fot that matter, Adrian Mole.