Comments on: GUEST POST: Joseph – the book review

By: AE

AE — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 07:24:21 +0000

Excellent review. Thank you.

By: Gaius Secundus

Gaius Secundus — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 01:52:42 +0000

Strange that no old Aloysian from that era (1984-1992) has commented on Joseph’s and Franco’s results. A quick flick through the college annuals of those years shows the following.

1) Joseph Muscat got just a couple of prizes in Form 5 and 6th form, and this for some kind of soft subject like Social Studies or some such crap.

2) Franco Debono appears in the annuals from Form 1 and does not appear in the sixth form annuals.

3) Franco Debono swept the board with all the major prizes from Form 1 to Form 4. This includes special prizes for Arabic.

4) Interestingly, his Form 2C result isn’t even his best one. He’s got better ones. In fact, Franco Debono’s results were so good and he got so many prizes that the real superstars of St. Aloysius of that era (the professors, consultants, engineers and movers and shakers, not only in Malta but all over the world) got the scraps (2nd and 3rd prizes) Franco passed over.

5) Franco seems to have run out of steam in Form 5 when he picked up no major prize worth talking about.

6) After Form 5, Franco disappears from the records of St. Aloysius College.

7) Classmates of Franco in the law course agree that Franco’s performance in law was nothing to write home about (to put it euphemistically).

All one has to do to verify this information is to look up the aforementioned college annuals (prize-giving pages).

Seems like Franco Debono peaked too soon. And Joseph Muscat never peaked at all.

By: ciccio

ciccio — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 00:57:47 +0000

Is the photo of Joseph Muscat with the Safi Labour Club president in the book?

By: H.P. Baxxter

H.P. Baxxter — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 00:27:40 +0000

Harry should publish on of those THE REAL STORY BEHIND THE STORY books. He knows a great deal more about Joseph Muscat than does Cyrus.

By: Reviewer

Reviewer — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 23:24:32 +0000

In reply to Libertas. Oh, I knew that. I think it's significant that he chose not to mention it.

By: Tabatha White

Tabatha White — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 22:23:49 +0000

A+’s comment is very valuable, especially in this last week.

By: Libertas

Libertas — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 21:38:36 +0000

“… his professional work (the book mysteriously doesn’t say what that was)”

Crystal Finance with Tarcisio Mifsud’s brother advising people how to salt away their hard earned cash.

By: Sasha

Sasha — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 21:16:29 +0000

Honestly I don’t know why they wasted paper to print the book, as it was obvious it’s just for his Mama to say he had a book written about him.

Yet again I reiterate he is just a spoiled boy and everything is about him being put on a pedestal.

I hope that pedestal collapses next week.

By: Tabatha White

Tabatha White — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 21:04:35 +0000

Excellent review.

A biography is often written at a certain point in a public person’s career to hedge off worse and more investigative versions and to anaesthetise or amputate those gaps that public person has become ashamed of.

His mentor admitted to doing the exact same.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 20:51:46 +0000

He probably has never read a biography. If he had, he would have realised that his boring, nerdy life is not worthy of a book.

He hasn’t done anything extraordinary. He hasn’t done anything unusual. He doesn’t have any interesting thoughts, a vision or a new kind of philosophy. The important moments of his life put him in such a bad light that he had to leave them out of the book.

How did they even manage to find enough material for a book?

I think it’s safe to say that Keith Richards’s riveting autobiography didn’t suffer a drop in sales due to Joseph Muscat’s book.