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Opened 7 years ago
Closed 7 years ago
Last modified 7 years ago
#314 closed defect (wontfix)
Fatal error class redeclaration after return statement
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Hello, I have experienced a problem where xcache loads a class incorrectly before a validating if statement which would otherwise return/exit the script. Wrapping the class in else brackets resolves this issue, however I have seen this syntax in use in a number of Wordpress plugins which might mean its worth looking into this.
The code works as expected with xcache disabled and with APC. You can view a youtube video demonstrating this at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcNLoDvRLDc&feature=youtu.be
<?php include('debug1.php'); include('debug2.php'); $test = new SomeClass(); echo $test->someVar;
debug1 & debug2 are duplicate files:
<?php if(class_exists('SomeClass')) return; class SomeClass { var $someVar = "test"; }
Change History (7)
comment:1 Changed 7 years ago by afxdesign
- Cc anthony@… added
comment:2 Changed 7 years ago by moo
- Resolution set to wontfix
- Status changed from new to closed
This bug has been reported multiple times. The code reproduced is already deprecated. It is also reproduced with PHP 5.5 + builtin.
I haven't tried it with APC, but i guess you may get strange behavior if debug1.php is include before debug2.php while in another file in reverse order
comment:3 Changed 7 years ago by moo
It is also reproduced with PHP 5.5 + built in opcache
comment:4 Changed 7 years ago by afxdesign
Hi, I did notice that you had related issues which would have had the same root cause. However, I thought it worth flagging this up as it is potentially a valid use case. The if condition is not instantiating the class before it is parsed it is simply making a check on the classes loaded into the get_declared_classes() array - a perfectly valid call.
It seems the issue is to do with what scope the class is cached in and by it not being wrapped in brackets goes out of the scope of the if statement (which is not PHP functionality) and so is then presented to PHP to parse before the if statement which suddenly flags up an incorrect warning that we are trying to load the class a second/multiple times. Despite a lot of searching I cannot see where this is deprecated in php.
Using autoloading is the best way to avoid hitting this issue, simply wrapping with else in my mind adds needless code.
Anyway, hopefully this might flag up for any more specific searches people might make to this problem in the future. There is a stackoverflow issue related to this, if it is up-voted lots of times I will update this just to let you know that it may be causing a wider aggravation. Thanks.
comment:5 Changed 7 years ago by moo
The statement "The if condition is not instantiating the class before it is parsed" is false
The whole php file is parsed/compiled into opcode.
In both debug1.php, debug2.php same thing happen but there's a condition checking
They're compiled as
<?php if(class_exists('SomeClass')) return; install class "SomeClass";
and because SomeClass? is top level class, it is installed immediately in the middle of compiling.
in debug1.php case, the install success. it then clear the code "install class 'SomeClass?'" so it won't install again when the code is executed. this is early binding. early binding is "before" the code get executed, before your "if class_exists".
but for debug2.php, install will fail due to "class already exists", and it will give up, so the class will only be install after this php is executed (include=execute) exactly at that line of opcode, this is called late binding.
late binding happens after your "if class_exists"
in another word, in the original and some opcode cacher behavior, class in debug2.php turns into late binding. while XCache do both file in exactly same way which is more sane to me, all become early binding, leading class redeclaration error.
Even though your code seems to work, it's not actually what it looks like to you.
The reason no error is thrown, is because it's a PHP built-in behavior. not because your "if" checking
You'll see the following code output "true" without any opcode cacher, the original PHP behavior:
<?php include "a.php"; var_export(class_exists("A"));
<?php return; class A {}
However if you put "class A" under any {} (e.g.: inside "if" statement), the definition will always be late binding
<?php return; { class A {} }
comment:6 Changed 7 years ago by afxdesign
Hi moo, thanks for taking the time to explain this and giving the demo - it was very useful as I spent hours just looking into it out of interest. You are absolutely right - which you knew!
I do wonder
As you have said if the issue it because PHP is executing late binding and you have decided not to (for valid reasons) unless PHP does deprecate late binding completely (I have not found anything to say they have) there would always be an inconsistency between PHP results with and without xcode which could be problematic for a person whom installs xcode on their perfectly working site and finds that it no longer works.
Anyway, as I said previously I placed this ticket as much to raise awareness for people experiencing the problem and save them time as to have it fixed.
comment:7 Changed 7 years ago by moo
- Milestone changed from undecided to 3.0.4


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Luckily I inherited oodles of old family photographs. Some of them have notes on the back to say who they are. Some of them don't, and we all know how bad that is. A lot of them were identified for me by parents or grandparents. But a few ancestral lines apparently avoided the photographer as much as they shied away from other kinds of informative records.
"John McFayden," Winnipeg Free Press, Monday, 2 August 1915, p. 10, digital image, NewspaperARCHIVE (http://www.newspaperarchive.com : accessed 15 May 2009).
This is John McFadyen, my great-grandfather. I know it's him because it says so right there in the newspaper—even though his name in the caption is McFayden. That's a common alternate spelling although the pronunciation, to me, seems quite different. The clipping was sent to me ages ago by a well-meaning relative (and I thank you again!) but the newspaper was un-named. A Winnipeg paper was a good bet but how could I cite it? Then I splurged for a subscription to Newspaper Archive <http://www.newspaperarchive.com> because I knew they had Manitoba newspapers extending back into the nineteenth century. When you copy an article into your word-processing program, the OCR (optical character recognition) makes for some amusing "translation."
John Hector McFadyen was born in Cape Breton in March of 1838, if we believe the 1911 census, and died 31 July 1915 at Oakbank, Manitoba. He came from a family of twelve children born to Hector McFadyen and his wife Jessie McKenzie of River Denys, Cape Breton. "John Hector" distinguished him from his slightly younger brother John Jr. aka "John Lauchlin," not to be confused with their brother Lauchlin! (Highlanders had their reasons for same names in one family, obscure as they may be to us). Since most of the brothers were seamen, including my John, it's something of a miracle he made it all the way to Manitoba to become a homestead farmer. Two other brothers drowned on the Grand Banks after he left. John sailed his own boat to Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he married and the first two children came along. By 1874 he was established on a quarter section of rich Manitoba soil at Oakbank, in what would become the Municipality of Springfield.
The two brothers called John, both long removed from the old family base in Cape Breton, were sometimes merged in reminiscences of the next generations. John Lauchie had apparently been smitten with gold fever and rarely visited home again, travelling to many foreign places. He did write letters, some saved by descendants of his youngest sister. And he probably sent photographs, now lost or unidentified. His last letter to Cape Breton came from Singapore on the Malay Peninsula, thus it was assumed he died there, although Sumatra was also mentioned.
John Hector's obituary says he was survived by all ten children, five sons and five daughters. Little did they know that his youngest son Willie would die a year later in France with the 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles. His son Bob would die five years later in a house fire at Oakbank. That left three sons, none of whom had children—my McFadyen line "daughtered out" as we say. A couple of the surviving sons show promise of real live family black sheep (.. goody ..) for future posts.
I treasure that clipping—the ONLY picture I have of him. Someone, somewhere, once had the original photo. One of the daughters, no doubt.
17 July 2009
McFadyens Part 6
Labels: Cape Breton, McFadyen, Oakbank, Provincetown
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That's great that you could verify where the picture of John was published. I know what you mean about treasuring picture(s).. thankfully scanners and imaging software can help us clean them up, enlarge, and store them for the future :) --Carolyn
- Tuesday, 21 July, 2009
- BDM said...
Actually, one of my terrific correspondents with mutual Cape Breton interests sent me the identified newspaper page several months ago. In my tunnel vision, I neglected this. Thank you again, Cheryl!
- Thursday, 23 July, 2009
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As we carefully pushed pyramids of swag-filled boxes stacked on top of our skateboards, Kep and I could already feel the energy building. We were passing the Staples Center, heading towards Nokia Square and the Adaptive Action Sports booth at ESPN X Games 17. Two hours later, the gates opened and the general public poured in. The X Games Village became a bustling metropolis that hummed with anticipation. In true "Taco-Bell" and "X" style, the machine that is ESPN quickly got a single phrase "trending" through the thousands attending: "PASTRANA-THON!"
Travis Pastrana, one of the undisputed heavy-weight champions of X Games, was gearing up to do something unprecedented. The plan was to compete in Moto X Best Trick on Thursday (the first night of X Games), throw down in Moto X Freestyle on Friday night, fly to Indianapolis to drive in his first NASCAR race ever on Saturday and fly back to Los Angeles in time to compete in RallyCross on Sunday.
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|Travis, 720 attempt at X Games 17
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If anyone could have done it, it would be Travis. However, with an unfortunate "twist" (pun intended), Travis nixed the "Pastranathon" by under-rotating a trick that has eluded him for two years at X Games: the 720.
The crash resulted in more than 20 fractures in 8 bones from his tibia through his ankle and into his foot. Obviously that would mean that Travis would be done for the weekend….right?
In true Pastrana fashion, he shocked everyone on Saturday by driving onto the X Games RallyCross practice course. Embodying the "We adapt" AAS truism, Team Travis worked all night to install a hand control system in his race car to give him the opportunity to compete.
I had the unbelievable honor of interviewing Travis Pastrana after his amazing appearance in RallyCross at X Games 17.
Thanks for the time Travis, and heal up soon.
Dan Gale: What is it about being an action sports athlete that appeals to you the most?
Travis: Riding a motorcycle is what I've loved to do since I was 4 years old and my parents used to take me trail riding every weekend. The sports have evolved, but I enjoy that the mindset has remained the same. . . . Push the boundaries of what's possible for yourself. If you push yourself far enough, before you know it, you are pushing not only your own boundaries but also the limits of what others believe to be impossible. . . and that's where it really gets exciting!
|"Focused" / Photo: Christian Pondella/ESPN
Dan: Have you ever competed in team sports? If so, what's the difference between action sports and team sports?
Travis: Every sport is essentially a team sport and I've yet to see anyone succeed without close friends or family or some sort of team supporting them. The difference is that, in action sports, when game day comes around, the ball is always in your hands. Good, bad or indifferent, the result is ultimately in your hands.
Dan: What is the scariest moment in your life?
Travis: Anytime I'm unprepared to do my job. If you know what to do and you are aware of the risks, no matter how daunting the task, you have weighed risk to reward and determined it is worth it. I guess that could also be applied to not being in control. I get nervous a lot for my friends when we film nitro circus, especially when the risk to reward doesn't add up in my head.
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Dan: Our athletes "adapt" in order to participate in action sports. We have found that, with the right amount of forethought, anything can be accomplished. During the X Games you had an injury that made you sit out Moto X Freestyle but you "adapted" to your injury and still competed in the RallyCross. Can you tell us a bit about that; what it was like to have to adapt?
|"If you can't Duct it F*ck it!" Travis tapes his foot the gas! Christian Pondella/ESPN
Travis: Athletes in any sport find themselves constantly adapting to injury. Two days before X Games I tore the flexor tendon from my middle finger off the bone. Without use of my middle finger and without time for surgery, we simply taped my middle finger to the pointer finger. This was a minor adaptation but it meant less fingers to hold onto the bar and an extra finger working the clutch.
After best trick, my rally team and I were forced with a much bigger adaptation. With more than 20 fractures in 8 bones from my tibia through my ankle and into the foot, there was no quick fix. The thought process though was simple: can we find another way to work the throttle? Could I learn how to use the new method of hand controls fast enough to be competitive and also not be a danger on the track? Could I tolerate the pain . . . especially knowing I wouldn't be able to use any pain killers or even most over the counter medication due to safety and event rules.
I decided it was worth a shot and the team worked all night to get the car ready. Hand controls were installed. Was it ideal? No. Did I win? No. Was it an amazing experience both for me and the team? Hell, yes.
|"Was it an amazing experience both for me and the team? Hell, yes." Travis Pastrana / photo Christian Pondella/ESPN
Dan: Have any of the injuries you've had over the years left residual effects? Do you have any injuries that have made you adjust or "adapt" full time?
Travis: Yes, my right knee doesn't bend past 90* and my left shoulder falls out of socket when it goes over my head. I have to adapt my tricks accordingly.
Dan: Other than the fact that you are a robot superhuman, how do you lessen your recovery time? What things – like consistent practice, cross training and or diet – do you use to recover?
Travis: The day you stop moving is the day you die. The body will recover stronger and faster than any doctor will credit if you just put in the work to make it happen.
Dan: Can you offer any encouragement or keys to success to the segment of the "adaptive" community (including our injured veterans) who are, or may want to, participate in "action sports" within a safe environment like our Adaptive Action Sports programs or the DirtFish Rally School?
Travis: If you think you can, you can!
Don't let anyone tell you different!
C.Van Hanja/ESPN Images
|Travis Pastrana, 5th from the right, pictured here at X Games opening press conference.
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|Travis Pastrana and Shaun White /
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Travis taking the Rallycross dirt jump.
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OSI/LPS Maps: 28B, 49, 50, 55, 56, 61, 62, AWW
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Lugnaquilla, 925m
Maximum height for area: 925 metres,
Maximum prominence for area: 905 metres,
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Ballinacorbeg 336m
Ballinastraw 284m
Ballycurry 301m
Ballyguile Hill 188m
Ballyhook Hill 288m
Bray Head Hill 240m
Carrickgollogan 276m
Carrigeen Hill 298m
Carrigoona Commons East 242m
Cloghnagaune 385m
Corballis Hill 258m
Cupidstown Hill 378.6m
Downs Hill 372m
Dunranhill 342m
Eagle Hill 296m
Killeagh 249m
Killiney Hill 153.5m
Kilmichael Hill 267m
Kilnamanagh Hill 217m
Knockannavea 400.8m
Knockree 342m
Mount Kennedy 365.9m
Slieveroe 332m
Westaston Hill 270m
Dublin Mountains:
Corrig Mountain 617.1m
Glendoo Mountain 586m
Kippure 757m
Knocknagun 555m
Mountpelier Hill 383m
Prince William's Seat 555m
Saggart Hill 396.9m
Seahan 647.3m
Seefin 620.6m
Seefingan 722.9m
Tibradden Mountain 467m
Two Rock Mountain 536m
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Annagh Hill 454m
Ballinacor Mountain 531m
Ballinafunshoge 480m
Ballineddan Mountain 652m
Ballycumber Hill 431m
Ballycurragh Hill 536m
Ballyteige 447m
Baltinglass Hill 382m
Barranisky 280m
Benleagh 689m
Black Hill 602.2m
Brockagh Mountain 557m
Brockagh Mountain North-West Top 548m
Brockagh Mountain SE Top 470m
Camaderry Mountain 698.6m
Camaderry South East Top 677.3m
Camenabologue 758m
Camenabologue SE Top 663m
Carrick Mountain 381m
Carrickashane Mountain 508m
Carrig Mountain 571m
Carrigleitrim 408m
Carriglineen Mountain 455m
Carrignagunneen 561m
Carrigshouk 572.5m
Carrigvore 682m
Church Mountain 544m
Cloghernagh 800m
Collon Hill 238m
Conavalla 734m
Corriebracks 531m
Corrigasleggaun 794m
Croaghanmoira 664m
Croaghanmoira North Top 575m
Croghan Kinsella 606m
Croghan Kinsella East Top 562.1m
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Cushbawn 400m
Derrybawn Mountain 474m
Djouce 725.5m
Duff Hill 720m
Fair Mountain 571.2m
Fananierin 426m
Gravale 718m
Great Sugar Loaf 501m
Kanturk 523m
Keadeen Mountain 653m
Kirikee Mountain 474m
Knocknacloghoge 534m
Lakeen 357m
Little Sugar Loaf 342m
Lobawn 636m
Lugduff 652m
Lugduff SE Top 637m
Luggala 595m
Lugnagun 446.2m
Lugnaquilla 925m
Maulin 570m
Moanbane 703m
Moneyteige North 427m
Mullacor 661m
Mullaghcleevaun 849m
Mullaghcleevaun East Top 790m
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Spinans Hill SE Top 400m
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Tonduff 642m
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War Hill 684.8m
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Longitude: -6.331884, Latitude: 53.178139
, Easting: 311582, Northing: 215455
Prominence: 262m
, Isolation: 3.3km
, Has trig pillar
, GPS IDs, 6 char: Kipure, 10 char: Kippure
Bedrock type: Pale grey fine to coarse-grained granite, (Type 2e equigranular)
The River Liffey rises high on the slopes of Kippure. The name as shown on Discovery map is simply a transliteration of a pronunciation collected locally, but without any clear meaning. It resembles ciop, 'stump' and iúr, 'yew', but 'stump of yew' would be Ciop Iúir. Yew is unlikely to have ever grown near such a high exposed summit, but the name also refers to a townland which descends to the valley, so a connection with yew is not impossible. Kippure is the 73rd highest place in Ireland. Kippure is the highest point in county Dublin.
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Short Summary created by simon3, wicklore 1 Jun 2011
Kippure is the highest and most southerly summit in Dublin. It is crowned by a 110 metre high transmitter, and is approachable from all points of the compass. It can be walked on its own or as a route combining several other local summits. Most routes involve heavy, open bog, while one approach makes use of a gated access road. The summit is urbanised and ugly, but the views on a good day are expansive in all directions, taking in Dublin, Bray, the Irish Sea and many of the Wicklow hills all around.
North, an approach through Glenasmole is possible from
, or from a bog track at
. East, the adventurous can start at the cottage at Lough Bray Lower at
and head up the steep ground between the two lakes. Otherwise park at
and follow a track that skirts the corrie walls. The gated access road at
is the most popular with the Sunday stroller.
South, typical approaches are from
, or from
, both of which cross heavy bog on the way up. West, start at
and take in Seefin and Seefingan en route. North West, start at
and take in Seahan, Corrig and Seefingan en route.
Caution is needed if approaching from Seahan or Seefin to the west as these routes partly follow the boundary of the Kilbride Army Rifle Range. The approach from Glenasmole to the north is the quietest, and offers secret babbling brooks, mini cataracts and river cliffs, wild goats and plenty of peace.
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Picture from padodes : Lough Bray Upper and Eagles' Crag
Lough Bray Upper and Eagles' Crag
padodes on Kippure, 2009
21 Jan 2009
I would like to add a few details to Wicklore's comment on walking around Lough Bray (Upper and Lower), which may add to the interest of exploring this area. The massive outcrop between the two corries is known as the Eagles' Crag (although the name does not appear in the OSI map). It is recorded that eagles did, in fact, breed here into the 19th century, when they were finally hunted to extermination. It still isn't unusual to see a peregrine falcon or kestrel rising on the thermals created by the corries, but you are just as likely to see today colourful paragliders doing the same when the weather is favourable. The corries themselves were formed during the last Ice Age and marked the head of a glacier that flowed down the length of Glencree Valley, with, I would surmise, minor tributaries coming from Raven's Rock glen (east of Lugduff) and the little glen at Powerscourt Waterfall, each of which has its own modest cirque. The lakes that formed behind the moraines are quite deep and do not seem to communicate above ground, which has led to speculation that they may nonetheless be connected underground, with a flow from the Upper to the Lower. The water is acidic and low in nutrients, so aquatic life is rather poor and you will see that waterfowl are infrequent visitors. I read once that whooper swans have been known to descend here in winter, but I have never myself seen their white beauty on these black waters, despite many a visit. There is abundant plant life around the corries, I am assured, but the names that leave some botanising friends of mine ecstatic, like woodrush, cowberry and quillwort, are rather lost on me.
Parking close to the roadside cottage by Lough Bray Lower is very restricted, but this does not prevent, at weekends, a lot of cars from parking there anyway, and on both sides of the narrow road at that. It can be hard to get by, if you are travelling through. Add to that the madness of tour operators who have begun to send big coaches over the Military Road in recent years, and you have all the ingredients of a bottleneck worthy of the Red Cow Roundabout.
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The broad shoulder of Kippure that slopes down to the east drops precipitously into the twin corries of Lough Bray Upper and Lough Bray Lower, separated by the blunt wedge of the Eagle's Crag (see photo). The walk around the rim, above the brooding lakes, has plenty to grip the attention, but there's also a literary association that gives added interest to any walker's visit to this area of rugged beauty.
On 28 June 1907, John Millington Synge, himself an inveterate walker, began a happy two-week stay in the roadside gate lodge, then known as McGuirk's Cottage, at the entrance to Lough Bray House (that nestles, out of sight, on the northern shore of the lower lake). He found peace here after the furore that had surrounded the staging of "The Playboy of the Western World" at the beginning of the year. He noted down his impressions in a travelogue, "Glencree", that would later be published in the collection "In Wicklow and West Kerry". In phrase after phrase he evokes exactly the same experience that is ours today. Just a sample: "I have come out again on the mountain road the third day of the fog. At first it was misty only, and then a cloud crept up the water gullies from the valley of the Liffey, and in a moment I am cut off in a white silent cloud. The little turfy ridges on each side of the road have the look of glens to me, and every block of stone has the size of a house. The cobwebs on the furze are like a silvery net and the silence is so great and queer… Then, as I walk on, I see out over a cloud to the tops of real mountains standing up into the sky."
I don't know if Synge wrote his poem "To the Oaks of Glencree" during his visit in 1907, but, with its melancholy premonition of death, I would like to think so. He was already suffering from the cancer that would claim his young life only two years later.
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The deer aren't as interested in me as I am in them.
SDillmore on Kippure, 2005
12 Jul 2005
Took the meandering access road up. After having done Lug earlier in the day I was too tired for the direct ascent (the 28 degree temperature all day didn't help either). Near sunset on the way down, I almost missed two large herds of deer. I caught the first group looking back, glimpsing their silhouette.
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Kippure across the Boggy Athdown Pass.
Homerclesse on Kippure, 2010
28 Mar 2010
I've approached the summit a few times by two alternative routes.
The first is a straight up down route following the tarmac road from the gates off the Military Road. Although a rewarding view awaits it's not the most inspiring route and a little obvious.
The second route is by a couple of approaches. Park at the gates of the Kippure Estate and follow the track across the road. This eventually leads into heavy forest with a lot of deeply rutted tracks and felled trees. The best option is to head to the river bank (Athdown Brook) and climb up along the left side bank of it. A nice view behind you to the Coronation Plantation and the Mullaghcleevaun Range. Once you clear the line of trees on the left then it's simply a matter of climbing up to the top of Seefingan with it's mighty Cairn. Great views of the Blessington Lakes, the other hills of the West Wicklow range, south to Mullaghcleevaun and east to Kippure, our destination. It's very hard to miss with it's huge Aerial on top. Head out across the boggy Athdown pass and follow a line up to the top of Kippure. Being the highest point in County Dublin you will be rewarded with amazing views on a clear day. All the major summits are visable. It's a very boggy approach in places but very challenging. Head back down roughly 220 degrees to the bridge on the Sally Gap and back to the car along the Road.
An alternative route is to park on the west side of Seefin at the gates and go straight up the Forest track. Follow the ridge from Seefin and then to Seefingan and on to Kippure as described above. The obvious disadvantage is you'll be heading back the same way to the car.
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Picture from Dessie1 : Highest man in Dublin!!
Highest man in Dublin!!
Kippure Hike
31 May 2010
Hiked up Kippure on 21-5-10.Parked in the car park at the small bridge (
) just where the R759 road passes over a small stream.Hike length to top was 2.7Km.Took a 14 deg true bearing all the way to top.
Route was quite marshy most of the way but not too bad. Met 2 deer on route which was a surprise.Didnt have time to even get the camera turned on!Reached the summit after about an hours hike.Excellent views of the 2 sugarloaf's peeping through Tonduff and War Hill to the east and Carrigvore,Gravale,Duff and mulls to the southwest.Had celebratory cup of tea on summit while watching a guy hang from the mast near the top repairing something.Retraced steps back down to car.Enjoyable couple of hours and well worth a go if you fancy something a bit more challenging than the road route.
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There will be no vote in the House Monday night, ensuring that we will indeed go cliff-diving, at least for a day. The good news is the possible deal will set up another year of mini-cliffs. Happy New Year! This is where we learn that those who made the argument this is a "fiscal slope" rather than a cliff were correct. With the markets closed Tuesday and some assurance a deal is within reach, the economy will not go into free fall tomorrow.
The House was not expected to vote on any measure Monday night, so the U.S. will technically be going over the "fiscal cliff" at midnight, sources told CNBC. The House GOP caucus was scheduled to meet late Monday afternoon, but focusing on relief from Hurricane Sandy.
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House continues to wait for Senate to act on #fiscalcliff. @gopwhip has advised Members to stay near Capitol in case of further votes.
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I'm down at HC 5. No dinner here, no piping pizza. Just small bags of snacks. Pretzels. Chips. Sign of quick mtg?
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At the North end of the Capitol, Senate Republican Whip Jon Kyl of Arizona ladled chicken Florentine soup into a throwaway container, grabbed a pack of crackers, and, when asked whether he was frustrated about the status of the fiscal-cliff talks, told a reporter, "Don't talk to me now, please."
So, yes, the mood on the Hill this New Year's Eve is a mix of idle tension and expectation. Even though Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Vice President Joe Biden are engaging in legislative alchemy to negotiate a fiscal-cliff exit ramp and optimism reigns–for now–it's frustration that rules.
"There's only two people in this town trying to solve the problem. The other 534 are sitting around waiting for somebody to agree to something in a back room. It ought to be done out in the open. The public's business ought to be public," Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said in an interview.
President Obama said negotiators are homing in on a deal to prevent across-the-board tax hikes after midnight. Even though it's not done yet, details of what has been agreed to began to emerge.
Methinks some lawmakers shouldn't be so cavalier about admitting their uselessness:
The sourness of being left out of talks is not limited to Republican senators. Their minority counterparts in the House are left wondering what's next as well.
"Unfortunately, a majority of us are not involved in any of the negotiations, and we go back to our districts and people say, 'What are you doing? What's happening?' And we're waiting like anybody else," said Democratic Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger of Maryland.
As for details, there are no new spending cuts, only discussion of tax rates and how much more we'll spend. There are wins for sanity in the mix (permanent AMT fix), but this is not a "deficit reduction" plan, folks. Welcome to this warped town. Negotiators will call it a plan to make "wiser" cuts than sequestration would have, but sentient beings are right to be concerned about whether they will ever materialize.
Molly Ball has a nice run-down of the basics, as does the National Journal. Read both for your basics in preparation for a vote tomorrow or for party banter tonight, if you're going to a really crappy party.
I'll update with Boehner's statement when it comes.
Update (AP): More on the timeline from Robert Costa:
A couple trusted sources say all sides, at top levels, know this gets done Jan 1 evening at the earliest, more likely Jan 2
— Robert Costa (@robertcostaNRO) December 31, 2012
Update (MKH): If you're interested enough to want to follow this throughout the night, Costa's your man, by the way. According to various reporters outside meetings on the Hill, Sen. John McCain was asked "deal or no deal," and he said "deal." Sen. Jon Kyl is "hoping" for a vote tonight, and Sen. Johnny Isakson said "there'll probably be a vote tonight on our side."
Chad Pergram of Fox on the timing. The Senate is now looking for "pay-fors," he said, to justify putting off sequestration cuts for two months.
Senior Senate R source says they hope the Senate can vote tonight on #fiscalcliff . As to time, source said "10 or 11."
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) December 31, 2012
Update (AP): Are they going to vote on a complete fiscal-cliff package, though? Or, as McConnell suggested earlier, just the tax portion? At the moment, the sequester is the sticking point.
Update (AP): Tea-party patience has run out.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) lashed out at the upper chamber today as a symbol of government's runaway power in Americans' lives.
"It's an alternate universe. No, this — this place is a joke. I mean, bottom line, this is an absurd process," Johnson said on CNBC. "It certainly proves the genius of our founding fathers that government should be limited. I mean, the fact that we have this place having such an enormous effect on our economy, on people's livelihood, is wrong. It's simply wrong."
"So, I'm the manufacturer. I'm always looking for the cause of problems. The cause of the problem is that government is far too large. It's far too intrusive into our lives. It exerts way too much control over our economy, but that's where we're at. And, you know, I have no — I don't know too many people that really think government's effective or efficient. Why would they think the governing body of that government would be particularly effective or efficient as well?" he continued. "This is a mere symptom of the overall problem in a system of government that has become too large and too intrusive in our lives."
Watch Rand Paul pile on, too. Quote: "What does the [Senate] Majority Leader say? 'We won't do anything about entitlements." Oh great, this is going to be a real great solution. But we're going to stick it to rich people! I hope nobody works for those rich people."
Update (AP): Just to make this sham a little more of a sham, the spending-cuts portion of the cliff is now officially postponed.
"Sequestration will not be implemented for two months," said Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee.
McCain said the $24-billion cost of delaying the sequester would be offset by other cuts so as not to add to the deficit, but those details remain unresolved.
"They haven't ironed that out yet," he said of the sequester.
Update (AP): Hmmmm:
Biden coming to the Hill to talk to Senate D's about #fiscalcliff . Senate D's still haven't signed off. He may have to do some convincing.
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Diet Brownies
Brownies are too good to have just one.
Brownies are too good to have just one.
Once you starting eating
brownies it's impossible to
stop until the whole box
has been scoffed 🙂
Well that's if your name is
Winky and very hungry 🙂
Brownies are too good to stop!
Eating brownies can be
a cause of typo's too, not
that I have had one 🙂 lol
I haven't had one either. I had a whole bunch!
Brownies bring out my smarts.
Yep, I agree. I would be happy to find one that is only 100 calories too. Just saying.
Have a fabulous day. ☺
But one brownie is never enough! Maybe if it was super-sized!
Wait! Is that how it works!?
Apparently. Calories are never fair.
They love to reel you in!
And brownies are experts at that!
Oh, if only. That'd be awesome.
Maybe if we wish hard enough it'll come true.
I'm sure it means a 100 calories per kilo. Or maybe a 100 calories per square-meter of cookies … And never mind; calories are less dangerous people say. Calories only want to play with your clothes …..
100 calories for a square meter of cookies? I'd never stop eating them if that was true!
Calories can't play with my clothes because I don't wear any!
Would it have made a difference if you knew before hand?
Absolutely. I would've felt more guilty.
If they weren't all meant to be eaten at once they'd be sold in individual wrapping. Put them all together in a box & it's a Brownie Party waiting to happen.
Well they were kind of individually wrapped, but I still think it was a brownie party waiting to happen! And it did!
Oh well, might as well eat them all because eating in moderation just has no satisfaction.
That's for sure. How can anyone eat brownies in moderation?
If it tastes too good to be true, it probably is!
It was, and I guess it is.
Dang portion sizes!
They never make the portion size realistic!
Actually, I've done almost exactly the same thing before, Winky. Sometimes I miss the words "per serving" and so get completely misled.
I think they do that on purpose! They want you to think that their stuff is low calorie when it's not! Not unless you eat a tiny little bit of it.


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|I'm irreverent.
Back Tomorrow
long-awaited, highly anticipated return of Tales From the Sharrows will begin with tomorrow morning's ride. Same bike, same blogger (sorry), but a new route that keeps me entirely within Disenfranchisedistan. So, for those of you looking for your Arlington updates, I will no longer be able to provide them (unless of course I take a preposterously circuitous route [maybe in the summer]), so I highly recommend that you set your twitter machine's dials (or is mine the only one with dials?) to @BikeArlington to sate your needs. But for those of you who have had a desperate craving for some rants about DC's poor east-west bike connections, amongst other bikey things, well, don't adjust your blogging machine's dials at all. And I'll still try to post the usual "irreverent observations" (not trademarked because my writing, according to the patent office, cannot be officially called "intellectual" property). And sometimes I'll post poodle pictures.
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|Apr 2nd, 2010 12:47 AM
|Scooter Atreides
|Wow... Just, wow. I joined this forum just to talk about this awe-inspiringly heinous piece of work. I heard that around 45 minutes of footage were edited out of the final cut of this film(that's why Supes, after being scratched by the press-on nails of doom, goes from a little cold to full blown nuclear space leukemia in about 2 minutes of screen time). If this nugget of Hell is at all typical of the cut footage, then the editor deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for his valiant effort to save the human race from the forces of evil.
|Jan 29th, 2010 02:20 PM
|Chris Reeve was awesome as Superman, even in this turkey. My favorite scene is when he goes into the United Nations building, announces that he's getting rid of all nuclear weapons, & the place erupts with applause. I met Margot Kidder at a con & she was super-nice (pardon the pun).
|Nov 26th, 2009 10:04 AM
|Nuclear Man, and his various powers and manifestations, make him Superman's only rival, like Bizarro. Nuclear Man suggests that the magic of Superman's world is in how we perceive and celebrate his intentions towards teamwork. Perhaps this means people want Superman to share his passion for teamwork. Stories like this encourage confidence if we avoid idol worship.
|Aug 26th, 2009 01:30 PM
From Wiki..."The character of Nuclear Man was originally Bizarro in the 1st draft of the script, but the rights were unavailable at the time, so they made a whole new character"
|Aug 18th, 2009 02:38 AM
|Chainsaw: Loved By Japan
I love how the original Nuclear Man is supposed to be Bizarro, really, but comes out like Dave Coulier wearing one of those glittery fright wigs. And also with some sort of metal clock on his dingus.
Seriously, what the hell WAS that?!
|Aug 16th, 2009 04:50 AM
|Captain PirateFace
When Lex took his Welding mask off he threw it off screen... yet, no thud.
Some dude was off camera catchin' that shit yo!~
|Jul 28th, 2009 08:54 PM
|Superman is still in demand and love by people whether a movie,comic or books.It has something to with his adventures and technologies.
|Jul 26th, 2009 07:12 AM
|For some reason when I was a kid I couldn't get enough of this movie, I think its cause I was too stupid to tell the difference between the video boxes at the store so it was rented over and over again. There is something very depressing about how these movies ended up looking to me, its hard to explain but check the pics of anyone flying, it doesn't look right for some reason, anytime I see some piss poor shit from the 80s I get depressed.
|Jul 22nd, 2009 10:09 AM
|Hugh Jerection
Heh, this was on tv just a couple of days ago.
Amazing how the passage of time has done nothing to heal the
wounds inflicted by watching this steaming pile. It might be better than Superman Returns but it sure as hell isn't a patch on Roger Cormans Fantastic Four.
|Jul 19th, 2009 04:37 PM
|I liked Nucular Man (2 retroactivatedly), he was a American Gladiator with superpowers and even more ridiculous hair!
|Jul 18th, 2009 09:42 PM
|Melting... Bazooka.
|Jul 16th, 2009 07:36 PM
|Or Superlandscaping? What about Super Woman's Intuition or even... Super Friction?
|Jul 16th, 2009 06:45 PM
|Really? Nobody mentionned Super weaving yet?
|Jul 15th, 2009 10:11 AM
|Ow my eyes!
|Jul 14th, 2009 03:02 PM
god i hate this movie... so much. Really, Donner was the only person (at the time) who seemed to understand Superman more than ANYONE else in Hollywood. Also, love the big sparkly zoot suit they gave Nuclear Man I. That'll strike fear into the heart of Superman!!! Guess Lex has more than enough money to pay for a posh penthouse, super b-movie science equipment, and all that other crap... but won't shill out two pennies for a better suit for his diabolical creation???
And a token to Reeves as an actor keeping a pretty straight face for most of that lame-o scene.
|Jul 13th, 2009 10:46 PM
I just had a realization.
"Nuclear Man"? He's the Sentry.
That's... that's it. Same long hair. Same vast power. It's him!
|Jul 13th, 2009 06:59 PM
|When talk of a heavy edit hit the street, many fans wrote into Starlog wanting to see the cuts, as they felt they surely had to improve the film. Be careful what you wish for. Nuclear Man 1 would only have made it worse. Why didn't they use Bizzaro? That's basically what the guy was. "An Imperfect Clone of Superman." And I thought Mariel Hemingway's ability to survive the vacuum was the worst!
|Jul 13th, 2009 06:44 PM
|A Bad Enough Dude
|You didn't know that women could survive in space, -Rog-? Geez, what do they teach in science class nowadays?
|Jul 13th, 2009 04:07 AM
|Looks like the first Nuclear Man went full retard...
|Jul 11th, 2009 01:40 AM
|I'd rather see a whole movie about the first Nuclear Man.
|Jul 10th, 2009 11:35 PM
|Kilgore Cod
"An explosion of that magnitude would probably knock the Earth right out of its orbit. "
Not really, no.
|Jul 10th, 2009 02:27 PM
|@Captain- It's cool, everyones entitled to their own opinions, even when they're wrong.
|Jul 10th, 2009 10:47 AM
Wow... Superman IV. When I was little (3 or 4 years old), my brother was passing through a "Superman Fixation" period, and I remember us playing that he was Superman and I was Nuclear Man. Those were the days.
And on the footage of the first Nuclear Man, I couldn't believe this movie could be any goofier, but somehow the writers managed to create a completely stupid scene that seems to belong more in a cheese 50s B movie (I mean hazmat suits, "Its Alive!" and SCIENCE!!! being used) or in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (yep, one year has passed and that movie still is raping my childhood). And did my ears deceived me or did Gene Hackman said "nuculear" instead of nuclear?
This movie (and the deleted scene) are prime examples of why people hate comic book movies.
|Jul 10th, 2009 02:40 AM
|I can't possibly be the only one that thought of Jerry Jackson when I saw Nuclear Man 1.
|Jul 10th, 2009 02:07 AM
Heheh, glad you're all enjoying the footage of Nuclear Man 1 - it really is incredible. Definitely a good call about him being the closest thing to Bizarro we've seen so far in a Superman movie too.
Here's something weird I noticed from the most recent DVD release of Superman IV. Check out Nuclear Man on the cover!
Call me crazy, but that does NOT look like the same guy who played him in the movie. I'm pretty sure that's a shot of Gene Hackman from another film since the hair is fairly different too, but Nuclear Man's face looks very different in the movie compared to the one seen on the cover.
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In Hokkian dialect this dish is called Char Kiam Chye and literally translate to English is Sauteed Salted Green Mustard .Char Kiam Chye is a comfort food for many of us Malaysian.I love this dish especially when added extra Thai's chili when cooking . This dish is easy and simple to cook yet delicious and satisfactory to eat. I can have 2 big bowl of white rice just eat with this dish!! Some people like to eat with porridge or congee.Usually you can find this dish in porridge restaurant or stall.Here is my simple recipe: Ingredients:
2 pack preserved salted green mustard,about 2 lbs
1 whole boneless chicken breast,about 500 gm,chopped small
5-6 Thai's chilis,wash and chopped
1 red long pepper(wash and sliced)
4 cloves fresh garlic,peel and chopped
2 tbsp sugar
2 tbsp oil
1:Remove preserved salted green mustard(kiam chye) from plastic bag,then soak in cool water for 1-3 hours to remove the saltiness.I soak for 30 minutes only because I plan NOT to add in salt when cooking.
2:Keep repeat changing the water couple of time if you want a more blend kiam chye.Then squeeze dry kiam chye,diced or cut small,set aside.
3:Heat wok or skillet with oil at medium heat,add in chopped garlic for 30 seconds, then add in chopped chicken.Stir-fry for 1 minutes then add on chopped hot pepper ,kiam chye and sugar. Keep stirring until kiam chye dry ,about 10 minutes.Check the seasoning.
4:Dish out and serve warm with rice or congee.


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Detective Clyde Hunt has devoted an entire year to Alyssa's case, and it shows: haunted and sleepless, he's lost his wife and put his shield at risk. But he can't put the case behind him - he won't - and when another girl goes missing, the failures of the past year harden into iron determination. Refusing to lose another child, Hunt knows he has to break the rules to make the case; and maybe, just maybe, the missing girl will lead him to Alyssa...
The Last Child is a tale of boundaries: county borders and circles on a map, the hard edge between good and evil, life and death, hopelessness and faith. Perfectly blending character and plot, emotion and action, John Hart again transcends the barrier between thrillers and literature to craft a story as heartrending as it is redemptive.
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- Christine
- 19-10-2009
Stick With It!
This is one of THE most compelling books I have read in a very, very long time. It took me 6 or 7 tries to get past the first 30 minutes due to the narrator, but once the story thread is picked up, you just can't stop listening. The only reason I gave 4 stars is due to the narration. So, stick with it! As far as plots and storylines go, this book is a winner.
42 people found this helpful
- Elisabeth
- 01-06-2009
An audio "page turner"
I really enjoyed The Last Child. This murder mystery rollicked along with interesting characters. Amazing how many bad things can happen in one little Southern town. My only negative was that I found the narrator some how distracting for the first few hours. Though it takes a fair dose of willing suspension of disbelief, it is an engrossing story. A good listen for the car.
15 people found this helpful
- Janice
- 28-10-2010
Good story poorly read
Because of the number of negative comments about the quality of the reader I listened to the sample before downloading this title. It didn't seem so bad in the sample, but I admit that by the time I got half way through listening, I was worn out with a false southern accent of no known region that I'm familiar with -certainly not a North Carolinian sound. Worse, the cadence of reading one-word-at-a-time instead of reading sentences with comprehension and insight made it a difficult listen. I stuck with it because the story is worth it. I would strongly recommend it as a book, not so much as an audio book.
40 people found this helpful
- Carol B.
- 29-07-2009
This book deserves the 5 star rating
Rarely do I rate a book a five. But this one deserves it. Good character development ... lots of twists in the story line. I was sorry to get to the end. I got so involved in the characters, I find I want to know more details about how they got past all the tradegy.
Well written!
11 people found this helpful
- Kristina
- 02-11-2010
Very good story. Horrible narration!!
I am just halfway through this book, and I will continue only because John Hart has written a very good story and I am hooked on it. However, I agree with others who say the narration is absolutely terrible. I'm not sure what Sowers was trying to accomplish, but it almost ruins the book. My 6-year-old grandson could do a better job!! I will avoid other books narrated by Scott Sowers, and that's a shame since Hart's book is good and perhaps I will avoid other good books simply because I fear the narration will be as painful as this!
10 people found this helpful
- Glori-Read
- 28-08-2009
Choices and consequences in the face of adversity
The last child is heart wrenching tale of a young boy searching for his abucted sister; of the dangers he faces while searching for her in dangerous places; and of thefriends and unlikely allies that join him in his search and his fight for surviving abuse and dangerous enemies encountered while protecting what is left of a mother unable to cope with the tragedy and who is no longer aware that he still needs her love and protection. If you ever wondered what happens to people touched by a heinous crime after the reporters leave town?; of how investigators forever haunted deal with their failure to find the victims? of what happens to the lifes of survivors that have no closure?, of if a decision can forever change the life all those touched by a tragic event?, of what is the value of one child's life measured against the future of your own child? of what is the "right choice" if you question where your loyalties lie? So if you ever wonder about those questions then you will like this book. I for once did not guess the complete solution which made the book even better.
18 people found this helpful
- Diane
- 24-06-2009
Never again...
As much as I enjoyed this book, I will never listen to another audiobook read by Scott Sowers. After a short time his narration was like nails on a chalkboard. It was all I could do to finish. Fortunately John Hart wrote a great book despite the horrid narration.
37 people found this helpful
- Michael
- 16-05-2009
great book
Very well written with a multifaceted storyline. It is nice to read an author who does not feel he has to portray lurid details in order to paint a vivid picture. I highly recommend this book.
25 people found this helpful
- Bull
- 20-11-2012
A curious performance by Scott Sowers
There was a point when I started to toss this book in my digital DNF file. It was a little over six hours into Part 1, about the time when Johnny was having a dream about his sister and snakes. No, not because snakes are creepy, but this was when I first started to hear Scott Sowers going way overboard with his enunciation. All of a sudden I noticed that every syllable of every word was spoken distinctly, dipthongs became two syllables, and normally elided letter sequences were broken into their component parts. The was never a thu and never an uh.
It started distracting me more and more. I went back and listened again to early parts of the book and heard a trace of the odd speech, but nowhere near as overwhelming.
I soldiered on, trying to keep up with the story. But I was paying more attention to Sowers' narration than to the book. In fact, there was one body unearthed during that odd period of narration, and I have no idea how the guy was killed, so distracting was Sowers' performance. I looked for some sort of explanation for this curious change in narration. Something in the story line, requiring special pronunciation? Something about the characters, maybe an astral influence? No. Nothing.
From somewhere early in Part 2 onwards, Sowers' accent started sounding more and more normal, or normal for one doing North Carolina. By the end Sowers was back to form. In fact, he did a superb job capturing the despair of one of the young boys in the story, as he pleads with his friend for understanding.
I thought Sowers did an excellent job of capturing North Carolina in "Down River", and said so. Since that book was released two years before this one, I assume it was produced first, so I have no idea why Sowers would still be messing around with an accent he had apparently mastered.
Anyhow, was the book good? You bet. I started off prepared to not like it when I discovered the protagonist was a 13 year old boy, thinking this would wind up a modern-day Hardy Boys treatment. Time went by, however, and I started getting into it. Yes, you have to suspend disbelief to buy into some of the things Johnnie does, but in the end it all works very well.
I do wonder if John Hart has read much of Kathy Reich's Temperance Brennan ("Bones") series? If I remember correctly, it sometimes takes Tempe hours to determine just the sex of a body that's been buried for a few years. John Hart's medical examiner does sex, age, and maybe cause of death, all at a glance.
I started reading John Hart with "Down River" because it won an Edgar. That was one of the best books I have ever read. This one had the potential, but Scott Sowers' strange changes in accent and enunciation dragged it down for me.
24 people found this helpful
- Russ
- 03-06-2009
...one of the few I have ever given up on without finishing, not because the story was so bad, but because the narration was annoying. Perfect diction is not the most important consideration...in fact too much precision can set your nerves on edge and is many times accompanied by an emotionless tone.
30 people found this helpful
- Elizabeth
- 19-09-2009
Great Story
This is a great story with several twists that certainly caught me out. Its setting is excellent as is the character development and a tension and urgency throughout the story leading right up to its conclusion. The narration takes a while to get used to but is gritty and wholly representative of the setting - it works really well and is compelling to listen to.
6 people found this helpful
- Amazon Customer
- 25-09-2011
Great story, wonderfully narrated
On the amazon reviews someone complained that this book was depressing. Well reading the synopsis should make it clear that it's a pretty heavy plotline.
It's a wonderful book. Good plot, fantasticly evocative, and while sections of it were really dark or made me want to go straight home and hug my children, i found it strangely inspirational.
I enjoyed the different layers within the book, it doesn't just jump around characters becasue it feels it needs to, the flow is good and even when some authors may have finished the book, this book keeps on going and in the end you feel like the author actually finished the book - and didn't just feel like he'd done enough to keep his publishers happy so could rush off and do something else.
I thought the narrator was excellent as well, and his style really suited the material. Managing the full range of styles required. Extremely enjoyable
2 people found this helpful
- Kirstine
- 01-08-2011
Slow start and then takes off
I found the beginning of the book a bit slow to capture my attention but thereafter the story took off and I was gripped by the twists and turns in the narrative. The reader is excellent and really brings the characters alive. At times I found the author's descriptive prose over-burdened with similes that slowed the action and I found myself wishing he'd just get on with the story. However, overall I enjoyed the book and thought it was well-plotted and held my attention to the end as I was eager to find out the final denouement.
2 people found this helpful
- Elinor Dashwood
- 15-06-2011
Wonderful, clever and haunting!
I can't rave highly enough about this book. It was so cleverly plotted and written - even when you think you know whodunnit, you'll still be suprised. It was a haunting evocation of childhood and parenting, and the narrator was excellent. A great investment of a credit!
2 people found this helpful
- Cabaspre
- 18-01-2011
Excellent twists and turns
A beautifully read book. The narrator was perfect for all the different accents and even portrayed adolescent boys superbly. It was so well written I could imagine every scene, every character and every second of suspense. I can thoroughly recommend this book.
2 people found this helpful
- Joe
- 07-04-2013
Good read
This was a well paced mystery novel that grabbed my attention from the beginning and didn't let go until the last page. It was nicely paced, clever, and definitely fulfilled its promise of being a thriller. I very much like the Washington Post's description of this as "Huck Finn channeled through Lord of the Flies".
Some of the characters are a bit flat, even clichéd, but the key characters are well drawn and interesting. The plot leads down various roads where no shortage of villains are found, and some dark subjects too. This combined with the age (thirteen) of some key characters makes believability an issue. Indeed some of the dialogue and actions of the younger protagonists seem to stretch credulity. But in the end I was able to suspect disbelief and be swept up in the story.
The writing style was enjoyable, with highly readable prose throughout, though a little overloaded with adjectives at every description - I lost count of how many times 'oily' was used to describe a taste, smell, feel, sound.
Not an exceptional book, but definitely well worth reading, and a must read for crime/thriller/mystery fans.
- Janice
- 02-03-2012
The Last Child by John Hart
Really enjoyed, sometimes had to stay up very late for by bedtime story, just needed to know what happened next!
- Mrs
- 22-12-2011
So disappointing
I started this book with high expectations as it had so many good reviews but half way through I very nearly gave up. I had three main problems.
The narrator's voice was flat and even paced and at times he sounded as if he didn't understand what he was reading. The text wasn't given life or pace and he failed to create a personality to the characters. It was very hard to distinguish between them. As for the writing. The text was incredibly repetitive and the first half was far too long for the content which focussed again, and again, and again on eyes and fragiity. Eventually the last part of the second half got going and had some pace. And the story? At the end of the book when everything was revealed a crucial part just didn't make sense. An overwhelming disappointment.,