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Subject: Comments from
Diane R. Williams Khalil:
26/09/09 Daaavid. you are the mooost wonderful author!!! I LOVED your book - the way you write is so full of colour I could actually SEE what you were writing about - I could see the food strapped to the donkeys and sauce all over the place........
I had such ...a good time reading it - you guys are courageous to stay on the rock for long periods of time. Talking to my husband about a possible visit next year. I wish you electricity and water NON STOP (instead of love and hugs) as I'm sure they will be more appreciated, love and hugs anyway, you deserve them. MOUAH. |
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Subject: Comments from
Craig Smith:
16/09/09 I would have written back sooner, but have just been released from the hospital after a brief stay due to a bout of OPL -- Outright Prolonged Laughter -- brought on by reading RHUBARBS FROM A ROCK. You really have the eye and ear for the funny phoibles of our fellow man and woman, and I enjoyed it cover to cover. I hope you are writing more!
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Subject: Comments from
Svanhild Sollos - Norway
24/04/06 Glad to see that you are writing a new book with the
same and very witty pen (keyboard), R.o.R. certainly was too short.
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Subject: Comments from
Myrto Liatis
29/03/06 "long time no laugh so loud so much" over
printed words. Congratulations!
Truly enjoyed your ruminations relating Hydra's rocky rhubarbs... Aff.
M
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Subject: Comments from Astrid Roy - Johannesburg,
South Africa
26/03/05 I've just finished reading
your hilarious book Rhubarbs From a Rock . It has inspired me
to visit Hydra on my next trip to Europe so I can see for myself such
eminent locations as "Donkey Shit Lane" and perhaps meet with
some of the wonderful and eccentric characters who appear in your book.
Hope there's going to be a sequel. Best Regards, Astrid Roy. |
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Subject: Comments from Trevor Stokes
1/03/05 Just started reading
Rhubarbs and find it hard to put down.
06/03/05 Not being the type to finish books overnight - I have to
admit Rhubarbs has been immensely difficult to put down. A really
entertaining read which I give you credit for writing - and for surviving
on the Rock for so long. I look forward to Rhubarbs Too.
18/03/05 As a by-the-way - you know the feeling when you've
finished a good book and can't get into your next choice? ... Well, I got
that syndrome with Rhubarbs. Couldn't get into Michael Palin's Himalaya
(someone I admire immensely) so opted to read Rhubarbs again. I must say,
it's a great second-time-round read, which cannot be said for a lot of
books.
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Subject: Comments from Victoria Papale Through your experiences, I felt I did
travel to Hydra this year! Having been to many of the locations, as I read
the Rhubarbs, I felt as if I could smell the scene in my
head! I laughed out loud at the spider story, and "Leatherboy."
The Rams head story was HYSTERICAL. It was a great read ... having been to
Hydra or not. |
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Subject: Comments from Isabelle & Elias
Baltassis - France. Elias has read Rhubarbs From a
Rock as well and looooved it: he had fun all the way through and
was very sad when he came to the last page: he felt as if he had
left the island. We are great fans (and believe me, we are
also big readers, so we can compare). |
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Subject: Comments from Kelly Shea - Vice
President, Earle Travel Co. I was up until midnight reading the book
and nearly fell out of bed when I read about Pan going down the cisterna
to fetch a pair of glasses in the old Bahia Bar. I laughed out loud many
times at the stories about Mardas, the Austrian Countess (her
barefootness), Bill Cunliffe, Captain Janis (God rest his soul), and
Mikhaili the Boat Man. The next chapter is about Sewage. I can't wait to
read it.
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Subject: Comments from Barbara Lapcek -
These rhubarbs, these portraits are so
vividly affectionate that you have achieved the near-impossible: in a
single collection of yarns, you've cancelled out the mountains of negative
bat-droppings we know to be a part of this gorgeous island. I know the
bone, flesh and muscle of our Hydra and you've, with truth and accuracy,
been faithful to them. Rhubarbs from a Rock is intelligent,
witty, and endlessly affectionate. Bravo!! |
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Subject: The Gods
of Hydra Lore from Michael Kelland -Just finished
your tome, quite enjoyable. Publisher delivered within 5 days of ordering.
HOWEVER, your inaccuracies will be punished by several, if not a
multitude, of the myth keepers of the rock. I got Pan down to 2000
drachmas within two days of retrieval and 6 1/2 hours prior to departure.
He finally realized the concept of a vanishing asset. It is true that in
the 48 hours till success was finalized, bruising did occur from walking
at night with sunglasses. I trust subsequent editions will correct the
above cited inaccuracy, and my attorneys request a correction in the local
newspaper of record.
Regards and HNY to you and yours and other familiar denizens.
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Dear Mr Kelland,
Sorry to hear that your spectacles were also a victim of the hole and Mr
Pan's extortion. The Bank recorded in the "historical
documents" was not a gent prone to behaviour associated with boozy
bruising or wearing shades at night, and he obviously did not have your
tenacity in negotiating. A decent, clean-cut fellow.
Any similarity to yourself and the bloke in chapter 2, is therefore pure
coincidence, and we will alert the media as such.
Your reputation, I assure you, is intact. |
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