Comments on: The Ghosts of Eden by Andrew Sharp

By: AlexM

AlexM — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:37:06 +0000

I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you down the road!

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 06:04:49 +0000

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By: Mel Read

Mel Read — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:06:58 +0000

Andrew, The note about your dream island put me in mind of Rose Macaulay’s’Orphan Island’ or even Mary Rose(J.M Barrie, I think?) and the trauma of her double disappearance. The dream can degenerate into a nightmare all too easily. I think you really are opening new windows. Good luck with the book Mel

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:35:29 +0000

Hi Pete, thanks for your entertaining comments. I’ve kept away from auto-biography – even semi – in the novel although I think that Milan Kundera said something like: The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That, I suspect, holds true for many writers.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:21:34 +0000

Hi Aigen, I hope you enjoy the remaining blogs. Tomorrow’s touches a little on medicine. I’m skipping around with these blog entries to find something of interest to a wide range of people. I’ve lived in East Africa (and Zimbabwe – where I’m basing my next book) so enjoy writing about it. There’s quite a lot of post-colonial Indian fiction but not so much set in Africa.

By: Peter Finch

Peter Finch — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:58:11 +0000

At the risk of sycophancy (as an arch-neologizer) I have to blog in support of my friend and say that this entry is reminiscent of another most excellent of stories “Hirundininae et Amazonia” – indeed to quote another Blogger – “Sharp (Side: ) was Arthur Ransome” (http://ellissharp.blogspot.com/2005/03/was-arthur-ransome-working-for-mi6.html). And to continue the misquotation with a Dickensian allusion: Andrew/Pip we have Great E… of you – and I might add (lingua en bucca) that: are we sure no plaguarism has occurred here, noting that according to Wikipedia: “The action of the story takes place … when the protagonist is about seven years old… is written in a semi-autobiographical style, and is the story of the orphan Pip, writing his life from his early days of childhood until adulthood.
Enough I hear you cry!

By: Aigen

Aigen — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:37:27 +0000

Hi, Andrew,
Thank you for the very informative reply to my questions. I’m enjoying your blog very much and this second entry leaves me even more anxious to read the book. I particularly like the quotes that you insert here and there. You evidently know this landscape, its history and people very well. Now you’re giving us clues to your medical background. Do I ask more questions or wait for tomorrow’s blog?
Aigen.