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We really have to watch these guys:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/Opini...favourite-books/2004/12/07/1102182289396.html
But the real surprise of the poll is that someone by the name of Col Stringer appears to be one of Australia's most-loved authors. Col who? Like most people, until Sunday I had never heard of this Gold Coast-based evangelist whose 800 Horsemen about the role of the Australian Light Horse in Palestine came in at No. 12.
(Since then I've visited his website and discovered more than I might want to know about any author, popular or unpopular. Stringer's argument is that the Australian Light Horse succeeded where the crusaders failed: "Thousands of following Crusaders paid the ultimate price with their bones bleaching the barren rocky hills but Jerusalem was to remain firmly in the hands of the Turks right up until this century when 800 Aussie Light Horsemen rode into history and opened the gateway to Jerusalem . . . If 800 Anzac Light Horsemen can rewrite the history books, what can 18 million Anzacs do in the spiritual battle! Fasten your safety belt Aussie Christians . . .")
That means that after Tim Winton and Bert Facey, Stringer is Australia's most popular author. Don't worry about Bryce Courtenay, Emily Rodda or even Matthew Reilly; don't consider Patrick White, David Malouf or the much-neglected Christina Stead. Col Stringer, whose "Fighting" McKenzie: Anzac Chaplain was in the list at No.29 and who has self-published all his 19 books, has pipped them all. And no one I asked had ever heard of him.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/Opini...favourite-books/2004/12/07/1102182289396.html
But the real surprise of the poll is that someone by the name of Col Stringer appears to be one of Australia's most-loved authors. Col who? Like most people, until Sunday I had never heard of this Gold Coast-based evangelist whose 800 Horsemen about the role of the Australian Light Horse in Palestine came in at No. 12.
(Since then I've visited his website and discovered more than I might want to know about any author, popular or unpopular. Stringer's argument is that the Australian Light Horse succeeded where the crusaders failed: "Thousands of following Crusaders paid the ultimate price with their bones bleaching the barren rocky hills but Jerusalem was to remain firmly in the hands of the Turks right up until this century when 800 Aussie Light Horsemen rode into history and opened the gateway to Jerusalem . . . If 800 Anzac Light Horsemen can rewrite the history books, what can 18 million Anzacs do in the spiritual battle! Fasten your safety belt Aussie Christians . . .")
That means that after Tim Winton and Bert Facey, Stringer is Australia's most popular author. Don't worry about Bryce Courtenay, Emily Rodda or even Matthew Reilly; don't consider Patrick White, David Malouf or the much-neglected Christina Stead. Col Stringer, whose "Fighting" McKenzie: Anzac Chaplain was in the list at No.29 and who has self-published all his 19 books, has pipped them all. And no one I asked had ever heard of him.
