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Fiction

Riding to hell on Tim’s back

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September 1994, no. 164

The Riders by Tim Winton

Macmillan, $35 hb

Fiction

Riding to hell on Tim’s back

by •
September 1994, no. 164

Okay I’ve just finished reading Tim Winton’s The Riders. I’ve scribbled notes on pages all the way through, but I don’t want to go back and consult them. Who wants to return to hell?

The Riders is a novel to read legless, brainless, and heartless. I recommend litres of Irish whisky, ouzo, cheap French wine, Dutch beer, or anything that stops you from feeling. The Riders is your wildest nightmare, the worst part of you, the world you wish you’d never constructed within you – provided, of course, that you are male.

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Nigel Krauth is an Australian novelist and academic. He is a Professor at Griffith University teaching creative writing. He has published four novels and co-authored a number of young adult works.

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  • I read this contemporaneous review with some relief. Seen through the lens of this review it makes sense as a commentary. Read as a mere thriller it is bizarre. The many chapters of the Tough Guys Book Club is reading this for August 2024 and will come together around the world to discuss it on the 1st Wednesday of September. It will be so interesting to see where the discussion goes some thirty years later.
    Posted by Patrick Hockey
    26 August 2024