• calliope@retrolemmy.com
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    6 days ago

    Correct! When I clicked on it and read “Chopper” Read I was like “wait I have definitely heard of this guy as something other than an author.”

    Not really determinism unless his name was Mark Career Criminal but that’s ok

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      6 days ago

      Hey, he’s a guy called Read that wrote some excellent books. That works for nominative determinism.

      He did something else first, but he’s still a good enough writer to be classified as such.

      • smeg@feddit.ukM
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        6 days ago

        Oh definitely, it’s right there in his Wikipedia summary (with some… other stuff)

        Mark Brandon “Chopper” Read was an Australian convicted criminal, gang member and author. Read wrote a series of semi-autobiographical fictional crime novels and children’s books.