Aparthotel Venus Albir, Alfaz del Pi

Old love for Venus rising

Advantages: Superb performances. Beautiful soundtrack.
Disadvantages: Too many close-ups. A little shudder-inducing in parts.

Despite eight nominations for best actor in the Academy Award, Peter O'Toole has never actually won an Oscar. Incredible, considering some of the memorable and well-loved roles he has played during his forty+ year film career (remember Lawrence of Arabia and the Man of Le Mancha - to name but two). His latest nomination was only this year in 2007 for his role in the film Venus. Venus was not (in my opinion) one of O'Toole's finest roles or one his more endearing. Without O'Toole however, the film would have been lacking. It was O'Toole's screen presence that carried the film and made what could have been a faux-pas into something strangely absorbing and worth watching. Venus is the result of collaboration between screenwriter Hanif Kureishi and director Roger Michell. This is the second film the pair have made together ...

MAFARRIMOND 05.03.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Venus (DVD)

Dreaming of Venus.

Advantages: Great Read
Disadvantages: None

Venus of Dreams. ************ By Pamela Sargent. Introduction: ********* Not normally the 'Type' of Sci-fi I'd go for but the blurb interested me and so I was hooked. An Epic time spanning novel about Terraforming Venus. Synopsis: ******* We follow 9 year old Iris from her childhood living within her matriarchal family. She is an odd child who wants to learn to read and write! Via the computer linked headband she can access the Worlds A.I. Internet and gain all the knowledge known to man. Her extended family, comprising almost completely of women, think she is wasting time and 'Credits'. After all, she only needs to know how to fix the machinery if it breaks or how best to sow crops in differing weather climates. But Iris has dreams and ambitions; she wants to work on the "Project". The project is now 400 years old ...

Maximus-Qualitus 14.09.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Venus of Dreams - Pamela Sargent

Pi +Parker = Hilarious.

Advantages: Imaginative,funny and captivating.
Disadvantages: none

and India; the latter country became the place where he found his inspiration for this novel. He has been making a living by writing since the age of twenty-seven, publishing a book of short stories and going on to become a critically acclaimed author with his novel ?Self? ?Life of Pi? is his third novel and the winner of The Man Booker Prize 2002. He lives in Montreal where he continues his writing, I for one hope to see a new novel as soon as possible. Introduction Under the title of ?Author?s Note? Martel weaves true life with a touch of fantasy to explain the background of this novel, using it as if he was hunting down the story for himself by means of talking to Pi, the hero of the story. Various notes throughout the story keep this fantasy alive and are a work of art in themselves. What attracted me to this novel? The back ...

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Review of Life of Pi - Yann Martel