White Raven

by Andrzej Stasiuk | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 1852426675 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingGoryDetailswing of Nashua, New Hampshire USA on 1/17/2017
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Journal Entry 1 by wingGoryDetailswing from Nashua, New Hampshire USA on Tuesday, January 17, 2017
I found this good-condition UK-edition softcover at a local Savers thrift shop. It's about a group of young men who tackle a mountain in southeastern Poland, only to have disaster ensue.

The lost-in-the-mountains part of the premise is what attracted me to the story, but most of it consists of memories/flashbacks showing how the guys met and how they wound up on the run. It's narrated by one of the men, and his viewpoint includes some compelling sequences in which he's clearly lost, terrified, and in shock - but overall I found the story too scattered to hold my interest. I wound up skimming to find out how the flight-through-the-snowy-woods bits turned out, and found several dramatic plot-twists there, but I kept imagining the characters as 18-to-22-year-olds instead of the early-30s they're supposed to be, as their actions so often seemed random and ill-thought-out.

The jacket-blurb does give away a key plot-point, the reason for the trek: in the book we don't find out the details until well into the story. In general I enjoy asynchronous story-telling, but here I found the flashbacks more confusing than enlightening; other readers may not agree!

Journal Entry 2 by wingGoryDetailswing at MC Square (formerly Carriage Depot) in Amherst, New Hampshire USA on Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Released 7 yrs ago (2/21/2017 UTC) at MC Square (formerly Carriage Depot) in Amherst, New Hampshire USA

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

I left this book, bagged against the elements, at the base of the sculpture at the entrance to MC Square at around 5:15 or so; hope the finder enjoys it!

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*** Released for the 2017 Great Backyard Bird Count release challenge; see the GBBC page here. ***

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