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BOOK YANKED
Martin Chulov’s new book has apparently been removed from sale. Legal reasons, I’m told. Readers will remember Chulov for his role in the magical Israeli missile mystery.
UPDATE. Just spoke to a Sydney bookstore; recall confirmed.
He wasn’t so silly as to put the Red Cross ambulance on the cover, was he? Those things are notorious for attracting
legallethal fire.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 10 23 at 03:32 AM • permalinkYou can laugh, but magical Jew missiles are no joke! I hear the hated occupiers have one which can hypnotize the faithfull and cause them to sneak out at night to have intimate relations with livestock, which it then films and puts on YouTube. It has a giant eye full of evil and it’s solid rocket booster is made of muslim orphans but don’t fear because if one recites a passage from the sunnah it causes it to explode inshallah which is why you should always loudly recite the Qur’an while having sex with a cow.
Kevin Rudd at the book’s launch:
“This book is the first time that someone has joined all the dots,”
Or not.
Yep I brought it day one and have nearly finished. It’s not as bad as you might imagine if you just keep in mind who the author is. He does make a plea for Hicks but his reporting on the Bali bombing is interesting. In the world of post Bali cooperation between Aus and Indon he mentions Telstra geeks going to Indon with ASIS/ASIO/AFP et al and grabbing the local mobile tele number database. I’m sure when they have isolated the terrorist suspects numbers they will destroy all the other numbers…won’t they? They wouldn’t think to add it to their listening watches at DSD for other purposes…would they?
Nah!
I’ll be interested in why it has been pulled. I have been thinking that some of what I have read would be have been subject to the Official Secrets Act in my day however in the week I turn 60 ‘my day’ is most probably too old hat. In today’s world, what newspaper or publishing house would think to reject something just because it may help the enemy?
Posted by KevGillett on 2006 10 23 at 08:09 AM • permalinkWhat a terrible state publishing is in. They might try to cut down some of these problems by hiring editors; I hear that they sometimes make a difference. They might also try hiring people whose taste isn’t confined to their tongue, and whose intellect operates independently of consensus polls.
Hey, it could work.
#5, Amos: I liked your comment so much I had to post it on my blog! Thank you for the laugh!
Paco: if you are using Firefox, hold down the CTRL key and hit the plus key until the font is the size you can see. If you are using Internet Explorer, I’m sorry—I mean, they have a font-enlarging thing in the menu somewhere.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 10 23 at 10:11 PM • permalinkIf Texas Bob is correct and burnt flesh smells like grilled octopus, then shouldn’t all descriptions of the ambulances have included the line that:
“As a result of the fireball caused by the exploding missile, the stench of grilled octopus filled the air”.
Dare I say it, but if I don’t smell the octopus, then maybe I smell a rat?
Posted by mr creosote on 2006 10 24 at 03:42 AM • permalinkWonderful bit of investigative journalism from the master of the keyboard. Funny, same yarn arrived in my inbox from Crikey too… they must have rung the same bookstore.
Posted by Miranda Divide on 2006 10 24 at 06:51 PM • permalinkzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz….......
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 10 25 at 01:17 AM • permalink
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Hmm. The inside gen is that they found a sentence on p.212 which was actually true.
Chulov is reported to be inconsolable for such a breach of journalistic ethics.
MarkL
Canberra