The Secret Agent
Registered by MargeryK of Whitehaven, Cumbria United Kingdom on 9/8/2004
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
4 journalers for this copy...
Boy - I read this book ten years ago or thereabouts and released my copy into the wild. Since then we went to an indoor market and I picked up a couple of copies of this book!
So I'm offering one of them up as my first bookring. Why should you read it? Because it's a great story with interesting resonances to the modern day and the war on terror. It was written in 1907 after Nostromo and The Mirror of the Sea and deals with the life of a secret agent (anarchist) and his family.
There's an excellent preface by the author - (but I never read these until I've read the novel - I don't like spoilers!)
The list of particpants so far, the ring is still open so if you're interested, PM me:
daizysdad, UK
cadelagarza, USA
Brujula, France
So I'm offering one of them up as my first bookring. Why should you read it? Because it's a great story with interesting resonances to the modern day and the war on terror. It was written in 1907 after Nostromo and The Mirror of the Sea and deals with the life of a secret agent (anarchist) and his family.
There's an excellent preface by the author - (but I never read these until I've read the novel - I don't like spoilers!)
The list of particpants so far, the ring is still open so if you're interested, PM me:
daizysdad, UK
cadelagarza, USA
Brujula, France
Journal Entry 2 by daizysdad from Mexborough, South Yorkshire United Kingdom on Tuesday, October 5, 2004
Recieved today, along with a lovely Lake District Archive postcard, from Margeryk on the first leg of it's bookring journey.
Almost completed my current book so will start it very soon.
Thanks Marge for sharing your book.
Almost completed my current book so will start it very soon.
Thanks Marge for sharing your book.
Journal Entry 3 by daizysdad from Mexborough, South Yorkshire United Kingdom on Wednesday, October 27, 2004
I did find it rather hard going early on but once I got into it I found it quite compelling.
Posted this morning to cadelagarza.
Hope she enjoys it.
Posted this morning to cadelagarza.
Hope she enjoys it.
I just recieved this book and I'll be reading it after I finish one that i'm currently reading. I recieved it from daizysdad with an awesome postcard! Thanks so much!!! :)
I really had a hard time getting into this book. I dont know why, maybe it just wasn't meant for me. I passed this on to Brujula. She should be getting it soon!
Wow, that was fast!
I found the book in my mailbox saturday!
Thank you cadelagarza and MargeryK!
I found the book in my mailbox saturday!
Thank you cadelagarza and MargeryK!
It's a hard book to get into.
The descriptions are not easy to read, the font and size is really tiny in this edition (which makes it even harder to read!), at first you don't really know where the author is going.
And then you get caught by the characters and the intrigue, although none of them is really likeable.
I'm glad I read this book, although I don't think I liked it. I do understand why it's a classic, though!
So, thank you MargeryK for sharing this book!
I'll mail it back to you as soon as I have your adress.
The descriptions are not easy to read, the font and size is really tiny in this edition (which makes it even harder to read!), at first you don't really know where the author is going.
And then you get caught by the characters and the intrigue, although none of them is really likeable.
I'm glad I read this book, although I don't think I liked it. I do understand why it's a classic, though!
So, thank you MargeryK for sharing this book!
I'll mail it back to you as soon as I have your adress.
On its way home to MargeryK.
Have a safe trip, little book!
Have a safe trip, little book!
Many thanks Brujula! Received safe and sound last week through the post. Hubby has been reading it since and only now have I managed to get my hands on it again.
Thank you everyone for taking part in the bookring.
Thank you everyone for taking part in the bookring.
Journal Entry 10 by MargeryK at Booths Supermarket in Keswick, Cumbria United Kingdom on Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Released 18 yrs ago (10/26/2005 UTC) at Booths Supermarket in Keswick, Cumbria United Kingdom
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