Caprice

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Poor Doris!!!
Delightfully Doris Day
Bit Disappointed
campy classic 60's spy comedy/thriller
Good family movie

Caprice
Starring: Doris Day , Richard Harris , Ray Walston , Jack Kruschen , and Edward Mulhare
Director: Frank Tashlin
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
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Do Not Disturb
Move Over Darling
The Doris Day Collection, Vol. 2 (Romance on the High Seas / My Dream Is Yours / On Moonlight Bay / I'll See You in My Dreams / By the Light of the Silvery Moon / Lucky Me)
The Doris Day Show - Season 4
It Happened to Jane [Region 99]

ASIN: B000JJSJP0
Release Date: 2007-01-30

Description

Plunge into a world of high-flying adventure, pulse-pounding excitement Â- and outright hilarityÂ- in this captivating comedy-thriller starring Doris Day and Richard Harris. Featuring breathtaking stunts, tantalizing romance and exotic locales from the Swiss Alps to the shores of Southern California, this ingenious spy spoof is a gorgeous "kaleidoscope of international intrigue" (The Hollywood Reporter)!

Industrial spy Patricia Fowler (Day) is hot on the trail of a secret formula with the power to change the world...by keeping ladies' hair dry in the water! So important is this miracle hair spray that cosmetics operatives everywhere have mobilized to find it. But when Patricia crosses paths with sexy spy Christopher White (Harris), she discovers something much more sinister behind her quest...a plot that could cause bad-hair days the world over!

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Poor Doris!!!.......2007-05-12

I was hoping Caprice would not live up to its bad rep over the years as one of the worst pictures Doris Day ever made (even she didnt like it and disparaged it), but sadly it does. A costly critical and financial flop made near the end of her film career, Caprice certainly hasnt aged well. The movie cant make up its mind weather its a thriller or a send up of spy movies 60's style. Doris is a bit too old to be playing a Mata Hari, but nothing in this movie makes much sense,anyway. Doris is a sort of cosmetics spy, who is trying to avenge her father's death. The satire of the beauty industry sounds full of promise, but not in this movie. Director Frank Tashlin is so desperate, he even sends up Doris herself several times (having her fall from a balcony while watching the film Caprice starring herself). It's a lot less funny than it sounds. Doris is nothing if not game here, doing all sorts of strenuous stunts. (She threw her back out and had to be hospitalized during filming) Her over the top wardrobe has to be seen to believed. She and co-star Richard Harris have little chemistry and their romance is hard to swallow. On the plus side the title song is one of Day's better ones and the production design is stunning (when studios still had backlots and could recreate the rest of the world without leaving town) There are also 2 well shot ski chases, but they really dont help the story. The ending brings new meaning to the word stupid and will have most people scratching their heads. WTH??? If Caprice were better one could enjoy it for 60's camp, but its only fitfully entertaining. You have to give credit to Doris, though, she does all she can in a losing game to put this one over. It's not her fault the movie is so lame. (she does have a few amusing scenes here and there) Watch it for the fashions and sets and play some Doris Cds after. It'll make you feel better!

Delightfully Doris Day .......2007-05-10

This must be Doris Day's best movie of the 60's. Caprice is The Man Who Knew Too Much with colorful flare (Day's clothing was knock you out). You'll be on the edge of your seat the whole time-guessing and double-guessing. Sheer delight.

Bit Disappointed.......2007-05-07

Not the Doris Day movie I was hoping for.It was a bit too hokey for me, but fashion-wise, it was fabulous: great Doris Day outfits as usual. She really had an eye on how to dress for her movie roles.

campy classic 60's spy comedy/thriller.......2007-04-14

The movie starts out with the murder of an interpole agent on a isolated ski slope. The action moves to Doris Day selling a top secret cold cream formula, and her arrest. Sporting a new mod look Doris Day does 60's comedy in the way that made her famous.Richard Harris costars and helps to make this movie a comedy thriller.

Good family movie.......2007-03-26

You can't miss with the old movies -- my 6-year old granddaughter and I love to watch them over and over.

Caprice and Rondo (The House of Niccolo, 7)

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Finally Some Explanations
The Niccolo Series begins to draw to a conclusion
Rich and complex
A Soap Opera with a Masterýs Degree
waiting for conclusion

Caprice and Rondo (The House of Niccolo, 7)
Dorothy Dunnett
Manufacturer: Vintage
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0375706127
Release Date: 1999-07-27

Book Description

With the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett, grande dame of the historical novel, presents The House of Niccolò series. The time is the 15th century, when intrepid merchants became the new knighthood of Europe. Among them, none is bolder or more cunning than Nicholas vander Poele of Bruges, the good-natured dyer's apprentice who schemes and swashbuckles his way to the helm of a mercantile empire.
Winter 1474 finds Nicholas exiled in the frozen port of Danzig, Poland. His Machiavellian exploits in Scotland have cost him friends and family--not to mention countless riches. As the ice melts, temptations arise. Will he assist the Muslim Prince Uzum Hasan against the Turks? Will he lose himself among the secret, scented gardens of the Crimea in the arms of a close friend's bride? As Nicholas pursues his future, his estranged wife, Gelis, seeks the truth about his past, only to discover the secret identity of his latest comrade in arms--a tantalizing ghost from the past poised to deal him the crowning death blow.
Shimmering with detail, alive with intrigue, Caprice and Rondo is Dorothy Dunnett's quicksilver evocation of a world where joy is fleeting, love is unexpected, and truth the rarest commodity of all.

Customer Reviews:

Finally Some Explanations.......2001-09-01

This the seventh book in the Niccolo series does offer some explanations of Nicholas's early life and gives some reasons as to why he did the things that he did. Brilliant Nicholas has been exciled to Poland. He tries to forget all of his previous life and become a devil-may-care pirate, but his history keeps coming in to interfere, and he has to resume his life in order to protect those that are dearest to him. In this book we contine to see the beautiful Anna, Julius's wife, and without giving the story away she is certainly not what she seems.
We also see Nicholas and Gelis get back together at the end of the story. That is indeed a happy occasion, but it puzzles me where Katalejne fits into this. We don't see much of her in this story, and that is a great loss since I for one feel that she is by far the superior heroine in this series.

I can't wait to read the last book in the series. Perhaps then things will all make sense. I found that there were some similarities between this series and the Lymond series, and that disappoints a bit, since the Lymond series is so superior. But this is still a good series and it's well worth the time spent to read it. I recommend reading all the books in the series in the order that they written.

The Niccolo Series begins to draw to a conclusion.......2000-11-17

The seventh of Dorothy Dunnett's eight book House of Niccolo series is Caprice and Rondo. The Niccolo books have never engaged me quite as thoroughly as her earlier series The Lymond Chronicles did. Those are among my very favorite historical novels ever. The Niccolo novels are good, but I have tended to find them a bit harder to follow. However, in the particular case of Caprice and Rondo, I was able to follow the action quite readily. Perhaps as the series comes to a conclusion the answers to the many mysteries are becoming clear.

This book opens with Nicholas in Poland. He's been kicked out of his company and exiled from Scotland and the Netherlands as a result of his actions in the last book. (This is another reason the Niccolo books are a bit harder to like: Nicholas does some pretty clearly bad stuff. Whenever Lymond seemed to be up to something bad, it turned out he was being misunderstood.) In Poland he spends a winter womanizing and drinking with the pirate Pauel Benecke, who wants him to join in a pirate mission the following summer. But Anselm Adorne, the upright burgomaster from Bruges who misunderstands Nicholas pretty comprehensively, and who stands in a role vaguely similar to Lymond's brother Richard Crawford in the Lymond books: a good man who tends to regard the hero as an enemy because he doesn't understand him, shows up on a mission to try to recover damages from an earlier piracy committed by Benecke. Also, Adorne and the Patriarch of Antioch, Ludovico da Bologna, intend to head to Tabriz to negotiate with the Persian Uzum Hasan for support against the Turks. (So far, every character I have mentioned except Nicholas is an actual historical character. Dunnett does this extravagantly, on occasion, I think, using characters mentioned very briefly in historical records, which allows her to claim a character is historical but treat said person just like a fictional character.) And Nicholas' long-time friend Julius and his wife Anna also intend to go East, to Caffa in the Crimea, to negotiate new trade agreements for their part of Nicholas' former Bank. Inevitably, Nicholas is drawn into accompanying Anna and the Patriarch to Caffa and Tabriz, and he's also drawn into (or does he do it on purpose???) shooting Julius so he can't come, and frustrating Adorne's plans so he has to go home, mad at Nicholas again. Follows then plenty of action and danger and sexual tension, (this last as Nicholas, frustrated by 8 years of separation from his wife Gelis, must resist his attraction to Julius' beautiful wife), as things go horribly bad in Caffa, and Nicholas ends up trekking to Moscow, and a meeting with the mysterious Greek with a Wooden Leg, Acciajouli, who was involved in the very first of Nicholas' escapades from Book 1.

In parallel, we follow Gelis and Katelijne back in Scotland and Bruges, as the evil David de Salmeton hoves into view again, ready perhaps to revenge himself on Nicholas by attacking those close to him. At the same time Gelis begins to work to resolve her conflicted feeling about Nicholas. Of course, eventually Nicholas is lured back to the west, to confront difficult revelations about his family, and about his relationship with Gelis, and with others, and to try to rebuff various threats to his family and friends.

Much is resolved: perhaps almost too much. Some of the eventual revelations are a bit lurid, and perhaps a bit too reminiscent of some "revelations" in the Lymond books. Nonetheless, the book is fascinating reading, absorbing, colourful, complex. Another fine chapter in an excellent series of historical novels.

Rich and complex.......2000-02-10

Caprice was everything I expected from Dorothy Dunnet, and I expect a lot. Great atmosphere, great story. But warning, don't start with this book. Read others in the series first. Like all the Niccolo and Lymond books, Caprice is beautifully researched and difficult to follow in the beginning pages. There are dozens of characters, most witty, and they often read each other's minds. Even minor players have large roles, so that following their conversations--and indeed who's talking--takes some getting used to. But there's a reward. Soon, you catch on and and it's a joy. Dunnet's ellipses let you participate much more than a simpler presentation that gives every character's every thought to you straight up. These people become your own family, friends, acquaintances and enemies. Unlike another reviewer, I found the characters exquisite, but then I know them from several prior books. It really helps to read the first book, Niccolo Rising, if not the ones between, to understand Nicolas and sympathize with him. And I doubt Gelis, Nicolas'wife, or her actions would have any meaning at all to readers who had not sufferred through her betrayal in earlier books. But it's still a great story. This edition does have a nice list of characters and summary of the plots from previous books, which are very welcome.

A Soap Opera with a Masterýs Degree.......2000-01-12

I was disappointed with this book. It had received a good deal of critical praise. I don't really understand why. It's not a bad book, but it's not particularly good either.

Our hero, Nicholas, is a jack of all trades deluxe. Businessman, engineer, fighter, singer, horseman, archer, diviner, lover - he does it all, and does it all well. Why, the only person who can thwart him is...himself. Ugh. Being good at everything is nice, but it does make for a boring character. Furthermore, by the end of the book we learn that he's so darn clever, he knew what was going on all along. Well. That does drain the tension from the novel, doesn't it? Nicholas isn't the only problem. The characters - and there are a lot of them - speak with more or less the same voice, and a suspiciously modern voice at that. I suppose they must be in the Renaissance - after all, they're wearing the right clothes and eating the right food - but you could drop them in England in 1920 and I bet they wouldn't miss a beat. Their emotional relationships are right out of a television soap opera, including a truly odd shyness about...you know..."the act"...(soft focus, please). Lacking distinction, lacking personality, the cast becomes a dull blur.

In general, there's just too much going on in this book: too many plot lines, too many characters and too many places. Of course complexity is not a bad thing. But "plot" should mean more than "things happening one after another". One would like to see possibilities develop, then watch some mature, some wither and some die as the characters make their choices. There's no time for that in Caprice & Rondo. Here's a murder, there's a coup, there's a seduction, here's a revelation, there's a betrayal. How will they get out of this mess? Like this! Bang! On to the next episode! Let's go! go! go! To Caffa! To Tabriz! To Moscow! To Bruges! Oh my! It's a deus ex machina perpetua, and you can never forget the author's heavy hand grinding behind the scenery.

To be fair, Caprice & Rondo is part seven in a series. If you had read books 1 through 6 the characters, at least, would seem far more vivid and real, and the novel more enjoyable. But I can't imagine putting in that much effort for the promise of so little in return. Caprice & Rondo is too lofty to be good pulp and too workmanlike to be good literature.

waiting for conclusion.......2000-01-11

Another wonderful step in the journey, but am eager to know when the eighth book is due out, anyone know? My son checked in London in the fall and it is not out yet there, and they usually get it before the USA does, so does anyone have an idea of when to look forward to this next, and last?, book?

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break your heart with a view of how it could have been....
Good low budget movie for time travel junkies
JFK
remarkable in its banality
Some good, some strange.

Time Quest
Starring: Victor Slezak , Caprice Benedetti , Vince Grant , Bruce Campbell , and Barry Corbin
Director: Robert Dyke
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ASIN: B00023BM66
Release Date: 2003-06-10

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When a time-traveler from the future journeys to the past to stop the assassination of JFK, the world embarks on an extraordinary new course of history. Bobby Kennedy seeks out those who attempted to kill his brother, Jackie Kennedy begins her own quest to learn the true identity of the man who saved her husbands life, and John F. Kennedy leads the country and the world into a new frontier... outward towards the stars. What could have been comes alive in this unforgettable film experience that will reshape your views of reality in ways you never thought possible!

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break your heart with a view of how it could have been...........2007-06-08

JFK may not have been the best man for the job, but who could have done in those days? We have since placed him on an impossible pedestal and now that LBJ is the latest villain of that day in November this film has even more resonance. Superb casting has the best RFK ever, a Really Creepy Hoover. This film works best for those of us who were there and know the players.
When Mick Jagger sings that it was you and me who did the deed, I need to refer you to another 5 star film, "Interview with the Assassin" (2002).

Good low budget movie for time travel junkies.......2007-06-01

First off all, I don't even remember Bruce Campbell in the movie, but if he was, so what? Honestly, what is with these Bruce Campbell junkies? Yes, I thoroughly enjoyed The Adventures of Brisco County Jr and wish it continued, but the fact that he had a small part in this movie doesn't really matter.

I'm a time travel junkie. I love stories about time travel. And almost every movie or novel gets it wrong by involving impossible paradoxes. This movie didn't. For that it gets an automatic 3 stars.

The plot is the dad from The Waltons comes back in time and warns JFK and RFK about JFK's upcoming untimely death. A lot of the movie is spent dealing with their need to be convinced that this is for real. However, once convinced, can they actually stop it from happening?

I don't want to give too much of the plot away, other than to say, I liked the follow up after the immediate issues are dealt with. I enjoyed finding out what happened to the then young future time traveller in a few year's time.

The actor who played RFK nailed it. As I recall, the JFK actor did a terrible job. Must not have been much budget left after hiring Ralph Waite and Bruce Campbell. Would like to see again to catch more details.

JFK.......2007-05-25

It was an interesting twist on things. The actor portraying Dan Rather however sounded rather chppy and did a bad job on his acting. A lot of it was art. It had certain twists with it too.

remarkable in its banality.......2007-05-22

In customer reviews there is excessive use of hyperbole and exaggeration when reviewing films. Way, way too many times the phrase "Worst Film Ever" or "worst film I have ever seen" is casually and capriciously used, even though the latter claim is most likely inaccurate and the first one almost certainly is inaccurate.

However, this film may well merit some of the more scathing aspersions. The general premise is not all that bad, although hugely farfetched (a time-traveller goes back in time to stop the JFK assassination). I am a HUGE fan of alternate/counterfactual history (as confirmed by my book buying patterns). I was intrigued by the storyline of this film and had very high hopes for it being an interesting and fascinating movie. Done well, it could have been an intriguing and maybe even a great film. Yet a lack of budget and an ENORMOUS lack of imagination made this a weak community stock theater version of an English composition essay. Besides the very conspicuous lack of even a vague reference to any scientific or sci-fi explanation, Papa Walton shows up in a diver's suit (the old fashioned kind like you see in fish aquariums) in the middle of JFK's supposedly secure hotel suite, then dodderingly proceeds to explain that he went back in time to prevent the assassination (no scientific mumbo-jumbo included).

Although the film does make an attempt to present an alternative to what might have been in history (the consequences of JFK's more unethical side catches up with him), mainly it is an embarrassingly bad soliloquy to a time-traveling stalker's love for Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. An awkwardly large part of the film was Ralph Waite's character talking about his love for the First Lady (telling her directly), then asking for a slow dance with her as a reward for saving the President's life - I kid you not!

The acting was sluggish and palpably uninspired. I was literally embarrassed for the actors at a few points in the film. I swear it is as if the cast was using body language as if to say, "how did I get talked into this film, and when OH DEAR GOD when will it end?". Seriously, the actors playing the first couple were listless and seemed to be uncomfortable, although that part is understandable. Ralph Waite's performance or character was just plain creepy and off-putting, combining near-senility with a stalker's eeriness. Even Bruce Campbell (yes, I am a fan), who can generally be counted on to add some energy and interest to a film with his appearances, is both underused and poorly directed.

This is way too much like a story written by some marginally skilled Kennedyphile who pines for the days of Camelot, complete with the embellished and exaggerated notions of virtue that were all too often imputed to it. If those who rave about this film can be honest with themselves, the notion that all of America's problems being solved as a result of an unabridged JFK (and later RFK) administration are a little on the ridiculous side, though he no doubt would have made some accomplishments.

Political leanings aside, you don't have to be a conservative or Republican to dislike this movie, which had an interesting and promising idea but became a weak and lazy result full of poor writing and acting. Do not be mislead by the inaccurate reviews that tell you otherwise. If you want a good film to make you feel good about the Kennedy presidency, watch THIRTEEN DAYS (although too much of that is focused on Kevin Costner's character).

Some good, some strange........2007-05-15

I gave this dvd as a gift and was told by the receiver that: the JFK what-if thing was cool, it was at times strangely presented, and the Bruce Campbell character was not in the movie that much. He (the gift receiver) is a huge Campbell fan! Passing on this movie is probably a good idea. I will watch it myself through Blockbuster-Online in the future.

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Reading about Paganini
Unexpected Delights
An unearthly hand guides his bow
Excellent Introductory set of Paganini
Fine compilation of Paganini

The Best of Paganini

Manufacturer: Philips
ProductGroup: Music
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Paganini for Two / Gil Shaham, Goran Sollscher
The Art of Ivry Gitlis
Paganini: Violin Concertos
Heifetz Showpieces

ASIN: B00000J9H2
Release Date: 1999-06-15

Tracks:

Violin Concerto No. 1 In D, Op. 6: 1. Allegro maestoso - Nicolo Paganini
Violin Concerto No. 1 In D, Op. 6: 2. Adagio - Nicolo Paganini
3. Rondo, Allegro spirituoso - Nicolo Paganini
I palpiti, Op.13 - Nicolo Paganini
Le streghe, Op.8 - Nicolo Paganini
Violin Concerto No. 4 In D Minor: 1. Allegro maestoso - Nicolo Paganini
Violin Concerto No. 4 In D Minor: 2. Adagio Flebile con sentimento - Nicolo Paganini
3. Rondo galante. Andantino gaio - Nicolo Paganini

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Violin Concerto No. 2 in B mnor, Op. 7 - Allegro maestoso - Various Artists
Violin Concerto No. 2 in B mnor, Op. 7 - Adagio - Various Artists
Violin Concerto No. 2 in B mnor, Op. 7 - Rondo a la clochette, La Campanella - Various Artists
Caprice For Violin No. 13 - Various Artists
Caprice For Violin No. 20 - Various Artists
Caprice For Violin No. 24 - Various Artists
Violin Concerto No. 3 in E - Introduzione Andante, Allegro marziale - Various Artists
Violin Concerto No. 3 in E - Adagio, Cantabile spianato - Various Artists
Violin Concerto No. 3 in E - Polacca, Andantino vivace - Various Artists
Moto Perpetuo, Op. 11 - Various Artists

Customer Reviews:

Reading about Paganini.......2007-01-25

Fans of Paganini should read Julian Livingston's novel, Paganini-The Vampire Career. In this book, P.T. Barnum has sent Henry Feder to Europe to seek out a new violinist, Nicolaties, more than 40 years after Paganini died without last rites. Nicolaties looks, performs, behaves like Paganini. Could it be him? Lots of technical references to music, as Mr. Livingston is a musician and has written 2 operas. A very interesting book for musicians, vampire lovers, and macabre 19th century European tales.

Unexpected Delights.......2001-03-16

I bought this CD after hearing of the legend of Paganini - the devil on his shoulder, the playing that made people faint, the Marfan-syndrome affected joints that allowed impossible finger contortions, the immense crowds that adored him, as they did Liszt at the piano. What I expected was to hear impossible violin artistry at work, which was definitely fulfilled. What I did not expect, however, were the marvelous interludes between the violin solos. Paganini's concerti are unlike those of Beethoven and Brahms, as the violin completely dominates the attention. But the power of the full orchestra was unexpected. These are true violin showpieces, to be certain, but they are also marvelous bits of music - when the full orchestra blasts in you can't help but smile.

An unearthly hand guides his bow.......2000-08-13

"The Devil guides his bow " was what audiences said when they heard the fast fingers of Nicolo Paganini as he performed his various Caprices and Concertos. This was not an insult. He could play with demonic speed and still maintain a great sound. He is first and foremost a violinist, a superb one. Paganini's music is also brilliant and elegant sounding. In his time, audiences were moved to tears by his slower violin movements. This proves the emotional factor is present in his music, making him a Romantic composer and nevertheless a Classical composer. Stradivari violins were being made at this time. It was a great period in music and Paganini was a legend. I highly recommend this cd containing his most gorgeous works.

Excellent Introductory set of Paganini.......2000-01-14

This is a fine compilation. Not only it includes better compositions by Paganini, it also includes some of the best recorded performance of the works as well. As a musicological interest, Grumiaux and Szerying gave revival performances of no.3 and 4. The approaches the three violinists take are interesting to note as well. Szeryng and Grumiaux's playing emphasize the lyrical, aristocratic quality, whereas Gitlis emphasizes the demonic quality. And both approaches work splendidly. This set will provide an excellent introduction for people who does not know the compositions by Paganini, and will provide great pleasure for those who knows the music but has not heard them performed by these three wonderful violinists. Strongly recommended.

Fine compilation of Paganini.......1999-12-01

This is a fine collection of Paganini. Szeryng and Grumiaux gave the modern premieres for third and fourth concertos, respectively. Grumiaux's aristocratic performance of the fourth concerto has rarely been matched. In his performance, musicianship, technique and taste are balanced in an incomparable perfection. Szeryng's noble, distinguished performance of the third concerto has also very few equals. His restrained lyricism is particularly effective in the aria-like 2nd movement. As a pleasant surprise, Szeryng's performance has a great deal of charm as well (which is not always the case). Then as a contrast, this set has a hair-raisingly demonic performance of the second concerto by under-rated Ivry Gitlis. Gitlis's approach is 180 degree opposite from lyrical Grumiaux and Szeryng. Gitlis plays the concerto as if he is an personification of the devil himself, with gut-shattering vibrato and fearless abandan. Gitlis' fine performances of 3 caprices matches in every way with Heifetz's. The other recordings in this set are also distinguished, but not quite in the same level as the above mentioned. Grumiaux's lyrical performance of the first concerto sounds somewhat pale compared to young Yehudi Menuhin's 1934 performance, and so as his recording of two variations (Ricci plays a better Le Streghe, and I don't understand why Philips did not use Gitlis' version of I palpiti, which is much better). Marrinar's competent but hardly exciting perpetuo mobile (compare with Toscanini's recording!) could have been substituted with several more of Gitlis' Paganini short pieces he recorded during the 1960's on Philips. But this compilation is definitely worth getting for the concertos nos.2, 3 & 4. And the price is good too!

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A triumph of Filipino-American Literature
Atmospheric, superb, delicately well written
Incredible
This won the Pen/Faulkner?
Wonderful

The Caprices
Sabina Murray
Manufacturer: Grove Press
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Binding: Paperback

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With none of the nostalgia that mars so many books and movies about World War II, Sabina Murray's short story collection The Caprices covers the unfamiliar territory of the Pacific Campaign--Malaysia, the Philippines, New Guinea--and the all-too-familiar territory of human suffering. Most of Murray's characters are victims of circumstance. In the title story, a once-wealthy family lives in the shell of its grand house in Manila, guarding a demented young girl named Trinidad and trying not to attract the attention of the Japanese soldiers who have occupied the town. In "Order of Precedence," a young Indian officer in the British Army encounters his former commander at the prisoner-of-war camp where they have both been detained. Lieutenant Gillen is starving and diseased, but he will live; Major Berystede is dying. Once, in recognition of the younger man's polo skills, Berystede had proposed him for admission to the whites-only Officers Club. Now, through his parched lips, Berystede tells Gillen: "I finally found a club that would take us both." Though these nine stories are not linked, they can be read as variations on the theme of the unheroic reality of war. Brilliant and affecting, The Caprices merits comparison to The English Patient and, in a different vein but with a similar breadth of reach, David Mitchell's Ghostwritten. --Regina Marler

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<div>Winner of the PEN/Faulkner award for fiction in 2003, The Caprices is a collection of stories artfully told across the theatre of the Pacific Campaign of World War II. An Anglo-Indian cavalryman, his homeland on the brink of revolution, finds himself in Malaysia fighting to protect British interests. Two soldiers lost in the jungle with a Japanese prisoner confront their prejudices toward each other, and the nature of being American. An island witnesses the passing of history from Magellan, to Amelia Earhart, to the dropping of the atomic bomb. With exquisite lyricism tempered by a journalist’s eye for detail, Murray shines light on the tangle of battles created by that conflict, the violent reach across the generations, the shattering reverberations in memory. With this collection, Sabina Murray established herself as a passionate and wise voice of literary fiction.</div>

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A triumph of Filipino-American Literature.......2006-06-20

This collection is one the best works by Fil-Ams in the English language. Her works rocks!!! My teach assigned this book to us and because of her choice, I learned to appreciate the country of my roots. You rock, girl!!

Atmospheric, superb, delicately well written.......2006-06-12

Murray's descriptive novel of war-torn SEAsia is full of life's ironies. Though the number of stories is meager, but the richness the tales evoke is heady and captures the horrors and human frailty during those trying times.

She is one of the best Filipino-American authors in English so far.

Incredible.......2004-06-19

The best book of fiction written by anyone in her generation. (Unless A CARNIVORE'S INQUIRY is even better.)

This won the Pen/Faulkner?.......2003-11-18

I wouldn't necessarily say this is a bad book. But I certainly wouldn't say it's a good book either. The most remarkable thing about it is just how forgettable it is. For such a short collection of stories, you wouldn't expect to have completely forgotten the first two or three by the time you reach the end. And you certainly wouldn't expect it from a book that won the Pen/Faulkner Award.

Suffice to say that I was disappointed by The Caprices. The stories were sometimes bland, sometimes disjointed, rarely fully developed and never all that entertaining. The characters are too often one-dimensional, a common pitfall in short stories but one that is avoided easily enough by better writers. Murray has found a distinct literary voice, but not a particularly engaging one. There's nothing in the prose that would keep me awake at night if the plot failed to do so, which it did more than once.

To put Sabina Murray in the same category as Stephen Crane, as one critic has done, is completely unjustified. Perhaps the high praise is simply because the subject matter - wartime experiences in the Philippines and elsewhere in the Pacific - is relatively fresh and untouched. For that I suppose she deserves some credit, but it's not enough to carry an otherwise mediocre work.

Wonderful.......2002-06-18

The nine short stories here are all linked to the Pacific Campaign of WWII (Malaysia, the Philippines, New Guinea), encompassing the native civilians and combatants as well as the Japanese, American, and Australian soldiers who traveled far to fight each other there. More than anything, the stories are about the suffering-both physical and psychological-of both those who fought and those who were bystanders. Occasionally these drift into a surreal realm (not magical realist) inhabited by the dead and the walking spiritually dead.

"Order of Precedence" is a deceptively simple tale of Harry Gillen, an Anglo-Indian officer interred in the Changi POW camp (made famous by real life POW James Clavell's novel King Rat). When his former commander in India appears as a POW, Gillen's story flashes back to his days in India, where he is an officer, but never accepted as a full gentleman. "Guinea" follows two American soldiers, Francino and Burns, lost in the jungle of New Guinea, they bicker and take a Japanese prisoner. "Walkabout" is about an Australian veteran who survives life as a POW building the railroad to Burma (as seen in Pierre Boulle's book and the subsequent film, The Bridge on the River Kwai). After the war, as a rancher, he is haunted by those who never came home from the jungle. "Folly" tells of a Dutch plantation manger, the Indonesian guerilla leader who tries to buy guns from him, and how the war changed their lives. "Colossus" is similar to "Walkabout " in that it's main character is a former POW (this one American) who will never escape the horrors of being a POW. in old age, he is able to repay the Filipino who rescued him from the Bataan Death March (which is well-described in the history Ghost Soldiers).

"Intramuros" is a series of brief vignettes about a Manilla family, and how the war affected it. It's the most seemingly autobiographical story in the collection, but also the least strictly constructed. "The Caprices" is also about a Filipino family, and the terror of the Japanese occupation brings to them. Set in the early '70s, "Yashamita's Gold" is a mini-thriller about missing treasure from the war. Japanese Gen. Yashamita purportedly had a massive hoard of gold and jewels looted from occupied territories that vanished during the tail end of the war. The story tells of the possible surfacing of that treasure and how it affects two Japanese in hiding in Manila many years later. Finally, the most fanciful story of the collection is "Position," which posits a tired Amelia Earhart scouting Saipan in 1937 and being captured by the Japanese.

These stories are an invaluable addition to WWII literature, all the more remarkable for being written by a woman several generations removed from the war. They provide a rare glimpse into the impact of the Pacific Campaign on the Filipino people, and a haunting reminder of how long war's wounds can linger.

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