The Juice fails because Winton is writing in a genre that doesn't need him; a post apocalypse novel, especially an Australian one, needs one of two things that Winton just doesn't have: either a sense of humour, or a willingness to actually be shocking

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All this Tim Winton talk has reminded me that while I have seen numerous film and TV adaptations of his work, I have only ever read part of one of his books: his recent post-apocalypse novel The Juice, which I knew was going to be a failure going in and my low expectations were swiftly met

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Impossible to overstate how good this.

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it has been thirty years. when, i ask, will the world see a worthy successor to the Macarena

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*Sir David Attenborough voice “This cuttlefish is anything but common”

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