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Started in 2006 and this is the first time I came across it!
I have to confess, I am conducting an experiment. I am trying to establish, how many posts are visible on the "latest posts" list, and what happens when a long thread like this one turns up.
The reason for it is precisely that: the list is supposed to be limited by the number of posts, and it restricts availability. The visibility of a thread may be as short as one day, and that may be the reason why I never ... See more Started in 2006 and this is the first time I came across it!
I have to confess, I am conducting an experiment. I am trying to establish, how many posts are visible on the "latest posts" list, and what happens when a long thread like this one turns up.
The reason for it is precisely that: the list is supposed to be limited by the number of posts, and it restricts availability. The visibility of a thread may be as short as one day, and that may be the reason why I never caught this one before.
So please forgive me for grabbing it now for an ulterior motive. I noticed it because it is a sizeable thread, but I thoroughly enjoyed looking through it, and it brought back memories of some nearly forgotten books I read long time ago.
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| | | | | Late to the party | Aug 17, 2012 |
I've only just seen this post, so sorry for reviving the dead! I read a good survival horror novel recently, set on a Welsh island. It was called Turner by K. Drinkwater. (Checks...) Yep, it's on Goodreads http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13512735-turner
| | | | | Graham Greene | Aug 17, 2012 |
I've just remembered what I think is Graham Greene's most enjoyable book - Our Man in Havana - set in Cuba, of course.
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| Die Insel des zweiten Gesichts | Aug 18, 2012 |
The story is set in Majorca, just before the Spanish Civil War. Translated into English as The Island of Second Sight. An amazing book that reads like a... movie. Written by Albert Vigoleis Thelen in the nineteen-fifties.
For those who read any of the languages of former Yugoslavia, there is a novel titled "Osmi povjerenik" (Trustee Number Eight). Renato Baretić's first book, written in Croatian, translated into Serbian and Slovenian. The story unfolds on the farthest of Croatia's ... See more The story is set in Majorca, just before the Spanish Civil War. Translated into English as The Island of Second Sight. An amazing book that reads like a... movie. Written by Albert Vigoleis Thelen in the nineteen-fifties.
For those who read any of the languages of former Yugoslavia, there is a novel titled "Osmi povjerenik" (Trustee Number Eight). Renato Baretić's first book, written in Croatian, translated into Serbian and Slovenian. The story unfolds on the farthest of Croatia's inhabited islands, Trećič ("the third one"). The islanders lead an idyllic life until the arrival of the eighth (there were seven before him) "government trustee", a man sentenced to exile on the island but nonetheless entrusted with a mission: to organise elections and establish a reliable local government. This turns out to be an impossible task, for the islanders not only do not give a fig about the continental authorities, they speak in their own dialect, incomprehensible to outsiders. On this island in the Adriatic there are no phone connections with the mainland, but the people run a regular privately operated sea-route for smuggling in goods from Australia. Incredibly hilarious.
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