tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625804658511612758.post7981219032823229228..comments2023-03-26T00:27:29.147-07:00Comments on Perseus Q: Madman's IslandPerseushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11292281862441986618noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625804658511612758.post-2799709469062417802008-08-22T21:03:00.000-07:002008-08-22T21:03:00.000-07:00Can't read. Olympics. Work. Haven't slept.Can't read. Olympics. Work. Haven't slept.Perseushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11292281862441986618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625804658511612758.post-87042231019006387712008-08-18T03:10:00.000-07:002008-08-18T03:10:00.000-07:00Read faster, Perseus. And who would've thought you...Read faster, Perseus. And who would've thought you live in the country? You sound inner Melbourne to me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625804658511612758.post-81338214530560780702008-08-14T04:27:00.000-07:002008-08-14T04:27:00.000-07:00perseus put down the axe/chainsaw. germaine is on,...perseus put down the axe/chainsaw. germaine is on, channel 2. now.Melbahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02257719342445833725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625804658511612758.post-54735698974141572402008-08-11T15:38:00.000-07:002008-08-11T15:38:00.000-07:00Ramon - only in theory can I do both. In practice...Ramon - only in theory can I do both. In practice, I can't hold my liquor.<BR/><BR/>Melba - He wrote heaps and heaps of books, but none of them overly famous, and pretty much all of them were kind of autobiographical diary-like yarns. Still, this one was pretty good so I might actually track down some others. <BR/><BR/>Cath - More vodka, less blogging.Perseushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11292281862441986618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625804658511612758.post-45163131131468899712008-08-10T23:34:00.000-07:002008-08-10T23:34:00.000-07:00I may not have had the pleasure of shagging the jo...<I>I may not have had the pleasure of shagging the journalist, but what compensation</I><BR/><BR/>You <I>can</I> do both, you know.Ramon Insertnameherehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07367002511826523517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625804658511612758.post-15252921044509315812008-08-08T05:01:00.000-07:002008-08-08T05:01:00.000-07:00Cheap and rivetting read on a cold and frosty week...Cheap and rivetting read on a cold and frosty weekend...it could have been total trash and I reckon it would still have been satisfying....nice work. <BR/><BR/>Although, get a shag next time will you.<BR/><BR/>From Vladivostok.....Cathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00947982822958330915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625804658511612758.post-5040748894624003982008-08-05T18:51:00.000-07:002008-08-05T18:51:00.000-07:00the author name is familiar. what else has he writ...the author name is familiar. what else has he written?Melbahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02257719342445833725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625804658511612758.post-47458573371616422362008-08-03T18:54:00.000-07:002008-08-03T18:54:00.000-07:00I don't know, when the author complained that she ...I don't know, when the author complained that she wasn't given a coin from the wreck to make a lapel brooch out of, I just felt terribly embarrassed for her. These shipwreck types are all the same 'I knew the wreck was there, I spent one hundred years working that out and now I deserve recognition'<BR/><BR/>maybe the one you read was differentsquibhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10744419106501810243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625804658511612758.post-15159738044267240682008-08-03T17:43:00.000-07:002008-08-03T17:43:00.000-07:00I've read that as well!Oh hang on. I read 'The Wr...I've read that as well!<BR/><BR/>Oh hang on. I read 'The Wreck Of The Batavia'. Then again, maybe that was the by-line. <BR/><BR/>In any case, I've read that story, if not the same book.<BR/><BR/>I LOVE harrowing true stories of stranded people acting odd.Perseushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11292281862441986618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625804658511612758.post-44288478474482086172008-08-03T17:38:00.000-07:002008-08-03T17:38:00.000-07:00[also drinking Nescafe Espresso]That's funny, I ju...[also drinking Nescafe Espresso]<BR/><BR/>That's funny, I just finished reading 'Voyage to Disaster' (which should've been called 'Madmen's Islands') about a bunch of madmen who murder their fellow maroonees (I don't think that's a word). It's non fiction though, about the Batavia, not at all a cosy read, more sickening than grippingsquibhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10744419106501810243noreply@blogger.com