TPQ: What are you currently reading?
LC: Homage to Catalonia.
TPQ: Best and worst books you have ever read?
LC: Best - Darkness At Noon or Court Of The Red Tsar Worst - Moby Dick.
TPQ: Book most cherished as a child?
LC: Magical Faraway Tree.
TPQ: Favourite Childhood author?
LC: Enid Blyton (as a little kid)
TPQ: First book to really own you?
LC: Magical Faraway Tree.
TPQ: Favourite male and female author?
LC: Male: George Orwell Female: JK Rowling.
TPQ: A preference for fact or fiction?
LC: Fact. I read fact to fiction about 20 to 1, but every time I do read fiction I am reminded why I should read it more often.
TPQ: Biography, autobiography or memoir that most impressed you?
LC: Kershaw's books about Hitler - the 2 volume set.
TPQ: Any author or book you point blank refuse to read?
LC: Any of the Fox News hosts like O'Reilly's tripe, or really any American right wingers
TPQ: A book to share with somebody so that they would more fully understand you?
LC: Not sure. To understand my politics, Darkness At Noon or The Hunting Of The President, but to understand me, I dunno.
LC: Are You My Mother?
TPQ: Book you would most like to see turned into a movie?
LC: Any of the airport bookshop trashy spy novels. I can read anything, any absolute crap with no artistic merit at all if it has spies doing spy shit.
TPQ: The just must - select one book you simply have to read before you close the final page on life.
LC: Probably War and Peace, just to say I have read it.
⏯Lee Carney lives in Sydney. Born in England, he relocated to Australia at the age of 10.
⏯Lee Carney lives in Sydney. Born in England, he relocated to Australia at the age of 10.
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