Advantages: Great food writing, delicious recipes, interesting factual stuff Disadvantages: Not enough recipes; overly flowery descriptions; unappealing characters
There are some books that just refuse to be pigeon-holed, assuming that one need do that at all. Not only is Marlena de Blasi's debut a book that is difficult to label but it is one that confounds and and yet enchants with each turn of the page. I raced through the book relishing every word, but found myself seething with indignation at bad writing and annoyed with a narrator who just made me want to scream.
"A Thousand Days inVenice: an unexpected romance" is usually stacked on bookshops with travel writing and indeed, it does fit into that genre. But it is travel writing that focuses primarily on the domestic. It is undoubtedly a memoir, but a memoir that is forever pointing the reader forwards, wondering what may be. The cover notes say that the book "Includes recipes" but in reality there are few. In her subtitle de Blasi refers ...
Advantages: Lively, interesting and different. Disadvantages: A bit expensive
There is so much written about Venice so I thought I would write about the practical things which I thought about or affected me rather than an in depth history of any place or building I visited.
If you are interested in visiting Venice I am sure you will have your favourite attractions.
The guide books say there are about 400 bridges; they are not as tiring on the legs as you might imagine. There was a lack of children walking and in pushchairs and I had to resist the urge to help the workmen dragging, single handed, large boxes and allsorts on barrows up and down the stairs; that is part of their everyday life.
In England it would be hard to imagine how people go about their daily life without cars, inVenice everything is moved by boat, the postal services, parcels, logs for building in fact all kinds of building materials ...
teacherofhooch 18.02.2006
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Advantages: Lots of game play, option of 2 characters Disadvantages: Fustrating
Alone in the Dark the New Nightmare is apparently the latest in a set, as of yet i've been unable to find others so if anyone has an info please let me know.
The game starts by showing a brief video type play showing how Carnby gets involved. You are then presented with the choice of either being Carnby or Aileen Cedric, if you choose to be Carnby good luck as I have not managed to get very far with him at all (so if anyone has any hints they would be much appreciated).
The storyline behind the game is basically you need to discover the secret of the family who live on the island and who were supposedly a bit crazy but genius, well that is Carnaby’s mission anyway. Aileen on the other hand thinks one of the nutty professors may be her father.
Whereas if you choose to be Aileen it seems you do not have to fight many as ...
Antonio (Lucio) Vivaldi (1678 - 1741); Robert II Johnson (c1583 - 1633); Nicholas L'Estrange (1603 - 55); Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695); Giovanni Paolo Cima (b c1570; fl until 1662); Dario Castello (1590 - 1644); Jean-Marie Leclair (1697 - 1764); Anonymous
