Post #726713 by AceExplorer on Tue, Sep 2, 2014 6:33 AM

On 2014-09-02 02:54, bigbrotiki wrote:
Nobody else wants to discuss anything about the book?

Sven, yessir, I think we do want to discuss the book. (I definitely do.) It will take me (and others here) a lot more time to delve deeper into the pages and the text of your book and then to come up with intelligent and well-reasoned questions. You have demonstrated in this thread to what extent you have researched and thought deeply about the subject matter. And I must say WOW -- not only about the content of your book, but also how rare it is that an author gets to comment so openly and in such detail, in a public forum, on their work after publication. Wendy is right - several of your posts need to be printed out and placed in the front of your book. You are continuing to shed additional light on the book, its contents, and the results of your research. And it is also being recorded here in the Tiki Central repository for the future discovery by many others. (Or until the power runs out, heh.) I applaud you for that, and I am looking forward to spending more time with the book, page-by-page, and cover-to-cover.

The last 12 months have been great for a lot of us tikiphiles, cocktail aficionados, and urban archaeologists. We have seen Potions of the Carribbean, then Tiki Pop, and also the Pacific Ocean Park book. These fine books are a lot of material to process thanks to you and a handful of other researchers and authors.

We are also very fortunate that there is such interest, globally, to allow these materials to be exhibited and published. Cheers to you, sir!