BL> What drove me to write this is the mad idea of a car doing
BL> cruising at 130K on Pittwater Road! Any Sydney writer would
BL> have made it Mona Vale Road, or maybe the Wakehurst Parkway...
BL> Pittwater Road is ridiculous.

JB> yeah!. last time I was in Sydney it felt like a mean speed of
JB> 30K on pitwater road would have been good.

 Yair... anmd if you made 100 metres at 130K before a cop got you
it'd be a miracle anyway.

BL> This twit gets funnier all the time. Now he descibes Newington
BL> (the old Olympic Village) as a jerry-built slum between
BL> Silverwater prison and the endless sprawl of suburbia. In the
BL> real world, Newington was bought mainly by Chinese, at around
BL> $700,000 each. Some slum! I think I've worked him out...

JB> Sounds like he's thinking of the Melbourne Olympic Willage.

 Obviously never been to Sydney...

 I'm disappointed. I used to like Carroll as one of the better
Australian Crime writers, but HARD YARDS is utter rubbish. His one
about the Melbourne crime family was really good... stick to what
you know is a good rule for writers.

Regards,
Bob


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