peter rietbergen

Well, we'll miss the two men and their various siblings, in-laws and other such. Getting to know them was great fun.

The question is, as in all comparable situations, whether (a group of) good-willing individuals can succeed in destroying an evil system.

The plot chickens....

When he described his crush he called him Philip. But he didn't know his name yet....

A turning point. What turn the take, the boys's fate will take is.... Well: we wait!

This, of course, resembles what happened in the Nazi camps, in the Soviet gulags, in the 're-education' establishments of the Pathet Lao. Takes of unimiginable terror and heroic resistance.

Maybe I am stupid. But it was Winston who made the joke about boys and dildo's, and punched James. So why is W so upset? Unless he has realised that he has feelings for J ?

Perhaps it would be too unrealistic to expect that the escape that seems promised in the prologue would leave all 'prisoners' unscathed.

A very good chapter.

Certainly not an "easy read", but thought-provoking, and very well written.

The best fun I had with a GA story in months. A definite must-read.

A tale that is recognisable for all (of us) who attended public school. Survival takes many forms.

We do not know where Patrick lives. Or hoe. But maybe a young adult like D should leave his parents by now....

Absolutely spot-on. Great stuff.

Not entirely "by the way" but rather by way of a "Thank you": there are, I think, few stories on GA that had their - your - readers thinking as much about (im-) possibilities as this one did. Quite a feat.

I was wrong. This IS a happy end, far better than any conventional m/m or f/m would have been. Thanks.

Can life really be so idyllic, full of people who all exude warmth? After all, this is a plantation, on an island that is being colonised by (the) Americans!

So no more "redi ad me"....???

It's continuing to be thoroughly enjoyable, though I can't even begin to think how this could have a happy end. I only hope it's not a Copperfield one for yes, Dora is boring....

A few times, there is an Evan mistake. He should be changed into Emmer....

A rom-com from one of my favourite authors. I'm addicted already.

I am still trying to follow what happens. C says he never "imagined" - what does imagine mean, in this context? - growing old but always imagined "remembering" and "dying". I've been under the impression C always was reborn and started living, but only started remembering when, at Penmere, he met M, of course he "always" imagined/knew he would die: though few of us remember past lives, we all know we will die. So...?

GA opened with a message that the story had been permanently removed. That would deprive many of us of a truly remarkable tale. What happened?

The fun continues unabated.

I cannot promise that I will always choose you. But that is the problem: even now C does. He came back to Penmere. As he always did. To put it otherwise. The way this tale has been set up, constructed, suggests that there never may have been a "free choice". It suggests that whatever M does, or does not do: his presence in any of C's past lives always was the catalyst of C's returning memories. In short, the choice is, methinks, not C's alone, it Marcus'/Marco's, too. It is he who returns to Penmere. With one aim only: to find a new C. And because C returns - we do not know if he always lives there, or sometimes left, in at least some of his past lives, as seems the case - the wheel starts spinning again. For though C might have decided not to act upon engaging with the N he meets, not to act upon the memories those meetings trigger, i e. not return to loving M again, nothing suggests that he ever decided to go his own way. Indeed, he is not doing so, now, beyond telling himself, and V and N that this time all is different.