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(Quote) Good news!
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It doesn't much matter to me when you post, but I will personally not be done before the end of the weekend, and quite possibly not even then - I'll join when I can.
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Hmm - four people have voted but the poll only shows three votes. Did someone not actually cast a vote, or is something amiss with the poll function?
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I also picked A Memory Called Empire, as I've been meaning to read it for a while.
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Fictoplasm mentions The Dream Archipelago in passing in their most recent entry (which actually discusses a podcast about The Channel Islands). http://www.fictoplasm.net/2021/04/18/podcast-sunday-3/
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@clash_bowley There's that old question about whether the writer or the reader is more important :-)
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Wells was a great writer and I've found his works generally really still stand up today. They're also more sophisticated than the rather shallow media portrayals would suggest. BTW, the June selection will be your's, @NeilNjae . Followed by @Ray_Ot…
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(Quote) Yes, that's a mystery. My working theory is that the intro wasn't written by Kammeston at all. Perhaps by his brother before he died? Probably it's all just games. (Quote) Maybe... or maybe Kammeston's 'never leaving the island' was always …
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Hmm, interesting. Seevl is an anagram of Elves, too. It's tantalizing, but I'm missing the smoking gun.
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(Quote) Because there are certain common themes emergent from the stories in the book. He hasn't used all these things in two different stories by accident. But in the theatre hand short story, the one with The Lord of Mystery, the glass was used me…
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(Quote) This perhaps plays into the frequent Priest theme of twins. Both Caurer and Kammeston have twins/doubles. We were earlier given two nearly identically named islands on opposite sides of the world. And now we have two accounts of the same eve…
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I think the culture of Faiandland and Glaund on the northern continent seem as different from the artsy detachment of the islanders as the Easterlings seem from Gondor. We only imagine the Easterlings are different because we’re applying age old st…
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> @RichardAbbott said: > (Quote) > Another duality here is the insistence that each island has two names - and apparently only two, such as RAWTHERSAY vs Declare/Sing, rather than a whole multitude of different names in different dialects…
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@WildCard You can't change the notifications for individual threads, only for the categories into which threads are posted. When it comes to new categories, the default for selection is 'off', so when a new category is created, you have to manually…
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(Quote) What I mean is simply that most of the entries are designed to present 'factual' information - a description of an island, mostly, or sometimes an excerpt from a report, or a copy of Wolter Kammeston's testament. A few of the entries make n…
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I bought mine, btw.
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Yes, posts are ranked by recent activity, but there are 5 or 6 pinned posts at the top, so those get ranked first, then the rest appear below them. The pinned posts are the welcome thread and site rules, as well as announcements for upcoming club…
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I thought 'wistful' at the time, and meant to be suggestive of 'the trace' of him. But maybe it's literal, and a possible effect of a vortex. Harkening back to an earlier chapter, a pair children also claimed to see an apparition of Caurer. This ha…
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Isn't that basically 'orientalism' when the person from the east is always somehow mysterious? There was a bit on the news last night here about how Asian women are always portrayed as sexy teases.
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@Ray_Otus did you listen to the Corey M. Snow narration? I thought the reading itself was fine but his accents were truly awful.
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It's bothering me that people are finding it hard. I'd like to fix the issue, but I'd need to know more about what people see when they come to the site in order to help. Accessing recent discussions seems very easy to me on both PC and I-Phone: Me…
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I answered this elsewhere - it was a credit to the book, and it never got too technical for my taste.
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I enjoyed the variety. Especially the diversity in tone - these soldiers on a break really did seem like they were on a break home. Harry Gilmour also had breaks, but when he went home, he was still somehow involved in the war, speaking to his dad a…
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Just like you can of a setting by looking at different islands. :D
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I wondered if Homewood was trying to draw a parallel between being a reserve and being a Jew - there was more mistrust of the reserve, more surprise at the Jew?
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Given his credentials, I didn't think he had made anything up. The intro does mention compressing events, and this kind of conflation would safely fall under 'storyteller's license'. I had no problem with it, and no problem with the amount of techni…
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When it comes to naval fiction, or indeed military fiction in general, I've mostly read Napoleonic - Forester, O'Brien, Kent, and Cornwell. There's always romance on the side. But this book had so much more than than romance, because it was tempered…
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I was expecting this to the the first in a series about this sub and these heroes, so not expected here. Also, American novels and films tend to shy away from this kind of ending, so doubly not expected. Nice to be surprised, though.
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Not all that different from 70's era Dr Who, perhaps...
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Probably because nobody created a category for it yet.