Ditto the whole working life rigamarole - a tidy office job might in the end be an even better offer of care and support than the dream of three square meals and your own bed in an institution… I don’t think I’ve ever been more turned on by ugliness, what an absolute treat.

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To this should be added that experience shows that doing the right thing, in the way I have described, is often the way toward being in the right frame. This book should hit a few nerves for anyone who has lived through a time of crummy share housing, excess cask wine and flaky relationships. If you’re game for hetero relationship quibbles between a small-dicked ugly loafer and a bleeding-skinned ugly barmaid, come in, the water’s fine, things don’t get nearly as ugly as you’d fear from having seen too many Larry Clark films. Praise is an utterly frank and darkly humorous novel about being young in the Australia of the 1990s. It creates a sense of familiarity with the reader despite the differences we may have with Gordon and Cynthia.McGahan kept doing the thing and white earth is so brilliant and mature even tho it’s narrator is 15 years younger.

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The first time I read it, I remembered it as a story about being on the dole (unemployment benefits), feeling uncertain and depressed about the future, but also finding love in an unlikely lover. For I can just honestly say these hymns were a crucial part of my own spiritual, moral and religious development.Though it is grungy, gritty and graphic at times, there is humour too which makes it easy to read despite the darkness that lies in its themes. It was the first book, almost one of the few books, I've read, where sex was a way the female character used to deal with physical pain, and perhaps also inner tumult. This book is a one-volume compilation of the hymn books "Come and Praise 1" (1978) and "Come and Praise 2" (1989). Moreover, we should probably ask the despairing saint, 'Do you know your heart so well that you are sure the words of thanks have no trace of gratitude in them? The chapters are short, sharp breaths, guiding you along without allowing you to spot the real narrative snaps.

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Say not that you are unfit for thanks and praises unless you have a praising heart and were the children of God; for every man, good and bad, is bound to praise God, and to be thankful for all that he hath received, and to do it as well as he can, rather than leave it undone. Therefore, it is not folly for a Christian to assume that there is a residue of gratitude in his heart when he speaks and sings of God's goodness even though he feels little or nothing. Just the guttural 90s slacker slut fantasy read I needed at this monogamous and tame moment in life. I finished the book after a 4 day bender and the bleakness of its conclusion made me not want to drink again so that was well-timed.Reading it again, the main characters are still aimless and messed up; it is still more than a little depressing and the ending is still as meaningless as it was the first time around. In 1998, Praise was made into a film [6] by first time producer Martha Coleman and fellow first-timer John Curran directed. Broken down and wounded by my emotionally neglectful ex, I wanted someone to tell me I was good enough.