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Nineteen-year-old David Crawfurd travels from Scotland to South Africa to work as a storekeeper. On the voyage he encounters again John Laputa, the celebrated Zulu minister, of whom he has strange memories.In his remote store David finds himself with the key to a massive uprising led by the minister, who has taken the title of the mythical priest-king, Prester John.David's courage and his understanding of this man take him to the heart of the uprising, a secret cave in the Rooirand.

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Update I've just watched the film. It's even better than the book, by a long way. It's very affectionate, and very much played for gentle laughs. The cast is fantastic, some of the best actresses around including Eileen Atkins and Joanna Ab Fab Lumley, Stephen Fry and Ian McKellan. The attention to detail was stunning. Everything had been thought of - the lighting, colours and even face makeup of the women changed to reflect the lessening of the stranglehold Aunt Ada Doom had on the Starkadders and the lightness that Robert Post's child, Flora, brought to the farm. The ending was also an improvement on the 5* book. If you like British films, this is so typical of gentle British humour. In an earlier decade it would have been an Ealing film. I don't think it could have been made in the US as most of the actors weren't remotely good looking. Even Elvine, playing a mini Eliza Doolittle role (an obvious pastiche) was rather average and the sex-obsessed and over-fertile girl had been made up to look like an unwashed farm girl. Only Kate Beckinsale (who is not the world's most brilliant actress, although she was competent here, was allowed to be a beauty. I do recommend the film. And the book. Rarely do I see a film much better than a really good book, but this is it. John Schlesinger and Stella Gibbons, author and director, geniuses both._______________________When Aunt Ada Doom was just a small child, she saw "something nasty in the woodshed". And if it didn't blight her entire life, she certainly made sure it would blight, or at least add even more blight, to everyone else at Cold Comfort Farm, the family home and ancestral seat of the Starkadders.Essentially this is the American tv series, the Hillbillies rewritten for 1930s Sussex and parodying Hardy, Lawrence, and various other Great British Writers, but is more related to the Hillbillies with incest, hellfire, strange obsessions (cows) and all manner of people who all have mental or emotional problems of the darker, more malign sort. Into this maelstrom of petty evil, fear and ineptness, come the heroine. Flora Poste is the posh city cousin fallen on hard times whose father the Starkadders did something unmentionable to and feel guilty about so when she has nowhere to go, they take her in. But not willingly. She sorts them all out and brings them from their ignorant, Gothic-y insular life into the modern world. It is a ridiculously funny novel, not as literary as the parodying might suggest. I haven't seen the film of it, only just learned there was one, which was apparently brilliant and stars top British actors and actresses (as opposed to 'stars' famous more for their beauty than any thespian ability). Sometimes I don't want to see the film of a favourite book in case the director hasn't seen it the same way as I have, but this time I want to.Finished 26 Dec. 2011Book review 19 May 2015Film Review 24 May 2015

Relato de un náufrago = The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor, Gabriel García Márquez This is Marquez's account of a real-life event. In 1955, eight crew members of the destroyer Caldas, were swept into the Caribbean Sea. The sole survivor, Luis Alejandro Belasco, told the true version of the events to Marquez, causing great scandal at the time.تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز چهاردهم ماه نوامبر سال 1982 میلادیعنوان: سرگذشت یک غریق؛ نویسنده: گابریل گارسیا مارکز؛ مترجم: رضا قیصریه؛ بی جا، روزگار ما، 1359، در 147 ص، مصور، چاپ دیگر تهران، نیلوفر، 1368، در 102 ص؛ چاپ سوم 1383، در 146 ص؛ شابک: 9644482492؛ چاپ چهارم 1387، شابک 9789643382496؛ موضوع: داستانهای نویسندگان کلمبیایی - سده 20 مدر سال 1970 میلادی، روایت «مارکز» از ماجرای «ملوان ولاسکو» در کتابی با عنوان «سرگذشت یک غریق» منتشر شد. با آن‌که مارکز این اثر را در بیست و هفت سالگی خویش بنوشته است، اما نوشته ‌ای‌ ست بی ‌نقص، و بسیار خواندنی. برای این‌که چیره ‌دستی مارکز را بهتر درک کنیم، باید تصور کنیم بخواهیم حدود صد صفحه از زند‌گی ده ‌روزه ‌ی یک مرد را، روی کلکی، در وسط دریا بنویسیم. مارکز جوان، از این موقعیت یک‌نواخت و ساکن، روایتی پرکشش، و سرگرم ‌کننده ارائه کرده است، به گونه ای که خوانشگر، مشتاقانه از ابتدا تا انتهای کتاب را می‌خواند، و حس تعلیق، هرگزی او را رها نمی‌کند. جذابیت این داستان مستند، گاه یادآور آن نبرد معروف در: «پیرمرد و دریا»، نوشته ‌ی: ارنست همینگوی است؛ و در معدود صحنه‌ هایی نیز، تداعی‌ کننده ‌ی: «رابینسون کروزو»، نوشته‌ ی: دانیل دفو است. نقل از متن: زیر تابش آن خورشید سوزان و با آن نومیدی و آن تشنگی که برای نخستن بار واقعا غیرقابل تحمل شده بود، یک اتفاق غیرمنتظره و عجیب، برایم رخ داد. در وسط قایق، در میان طنابهای تور، ریشه ی گیاهی قرمزرنگ گیر کرده بود. مثل آن ریشه‌ هایی که در «بویاکا»، برای رنگ می‌کوبند، و اسمش را به یاد نمی‌آورم. نمی‌دانم از چه وقت آنجا بود. در طی نه روزی که در دریا بودم، یک برگ علف هم در سطح دریا ندیده بودم، و در عین حال، بدون اینکه بدانم چگونه آن ریشه آنجا بود، در طنابهای تور پیچیده شده، و نشانه ی غیرقابل انکار دیگری از زمین بود. زمینی که از هیچ سمتی دیده نمی‌شد....؛. پایان نقل از متن. ا. شربیانی

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