Villa San Michele, Port Douglas

Sympathetic Swede

Advantages: fascinating, touching, well written
Disadvantages: none

The book The Story Of San Michele has stayed with me for about 45 years, I think I was 16 when I read the German translation. When I visited Capri for the first time at the age of 21, I had already forgotten most of its content, I only remembered the part dealing with the villa San Michele the author built in Anacapri, the upper village of the island, that gave the book its title, two further visits many years late emphasized this part of the book. Last year when I was in Naples I browsed through the English corner of a bookshop and found the English version (which is the original one, the Swede Axel Munthe wrote the book in English), my first thought was, ?Gosh, is it still around?? It was published in 1929 you know! Who reads it nowadays? I guess the bookshop in Naples has stocked it for the English speaking tourists doing Capri ...

MALU 13.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Story of San Michele - Axel Munthe

Are the new Villa the old Forest..

Advantages: Martin O`Niell
Disadvantages: Losing O`Niell

Full name Aston Villa Football Club Nickname(s)' The Villa', 'The Villans', 'Villa', 'The Lions' Founded 1874[2] Ground Villa Park Aston Birmingham B6 6HE England (Capacity 42,640) Chairman Randy Lerner Manager Martin O'Neill League Premier League 2007-08 Premier League, 6th In 1982 Aston Villa won the European Cup. In fact English clubs won it six years in a row and dominated Europe, Forest and Liverpool winning 5 more, a couple of UEFA Cups thrown in for good measure. England will have the most winners in the competition when Manchester United beat Chelsea in the Moscow final with a totals of 12 victories. Football is coming home and those European glory days are returning for British football with an English club making the last four Champions League finals. Aston Villa could well be involved in winning the big ...

thedevilinme 17.05.2008 (19.12.2009) · Read full review
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JPod - Douglas Coupland

Advantages: It has a nice cover
Disadvantages: The stuff in between is bad

"Oh God, I feel like a refugee from a Douglas Coupland novel." "That asshole" "Who does he think he is?" As opening lines to novels go that was a first for me. I've never known an author name check them self so brazenly and I have to say it set me off on the wrong foot with this book. I've never read Coupland before so wasn't really sure what to expect. As the celebrated author of 'Generation X' I was looking forward to an IT literate book for the information age. What I got was something far less, a self serving work lacking irony and intelligence. A book that wastes the reader's time and provides little in return. But I'm rushing to a conclusion so let me step back and tell you a little about it before I completely trash it. The story follows events over a year or so of Ethan Jarlewski's life. A regular kind of guy he ...

brereton66 07.03.2008 · Read full review
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