Journal Entry 1 by dospescados on Monday, January 23, 2006

received via paperbackswap.com from Grant Emison, Cambridge, MA

reserved to restart icekween01's bookring

copyright 1974 (p1984), 373 pages, mass market paperback 

Journal Entry 2 by dospescados on Monday, January 23, 2006

This is the replacement copy for icekween01's original bookray. The original journal can be found here on lostbookisland. The remaining line-up is as follows...

denny08 - Las Cruces, NM, USA -- asked to be skipped
agschoolgrad - Jefferson, GA, USA
ASKmama - Newton, MA, USA
buffra - WV, USA (int'l)
Targhee - Mill Creek, WA, USA
BooksAndJava - Jacksonville, FL, USA (int'l) <----------here
felicia-fairy - Mackay, QLD, Australia (int'l)
jubby - Balmain, NSW, Australia (int'l)
-BookHaven- - Porto, Portugal (int'l)
Vunna - Sofia, Bulgaria (int'l) 

Journal Entry 3 by dospescados on Tuesday, January 24, 2006

dropping in the mail to agschoolgrad, Jefferson, GA today 

Journal Entry 4 by agschoolgrad from Jefferson, Georgia USA on Thursday, February 09, 2006

Received over the weekend. Ready to pass on to the next person. 

Journal Entry 5 by ASKmama from Newton, Massachusetts USA on Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Rec'd this book a few days ago...will get started on it soon! 

Journal Entry 6 by ASKmama from Newton, Massachusetts USA on Thursday, April 13, 2006

I had been really looking forward to reading this book, thought it would be right up my alley. I gave it a good couple of tries, got about halfway through, did some skimming - the story just never gelled with me. The main characters weren't very likeable and I was never drawn into the story...

Sending this on to buffra today... 

Journal Entry 7 by buffra from Columbus, Ohio USA on Friday, May 19, 2006

Hey! It's here!

Thanks! 

Journal Entry 8 by buffra from Columbus, Ohio USA on Friday, July 07, 2006

Mailed out. Didn't get a chance to read it -- I got swamped with life. Sorry! 

Journal Entry 9 by Targhee from Mill Creek, Washington USA on Monday, July 31, 2006

Just received the the book from Buffra last week, just prior to a weeklong business trip. It was truly perfect timing!

I read this book back in the late 70s (I would have been about 20 at the time), and am enjoying reading again through the eyes of an adult. 

Journal Entry 10 by Targhee from Mill Creek, Washington USA on Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Finished last evening, and will send it off to BooksAndJava as soon as I have the address.

I enjoyed the read very much, but the ending struck me as a bit on the sad side, as compared to when I read it years ago. Having never studied classic philosophy, I can't decide which value system I better fit. Engineer/rhetorician seems to fit a big part of my life, but truth (honesty) is my highest ideal. This seems to conflict with the discussion in the book. Perhaps, I need to read it again in another 20 years or so!

Thanks so much for sharing your book with me! 

Journal Entry 11 by BooksAndJava from Knoxville, Tennessee USA on Monday, October 16, 2006

Book arrived today in Minnesota via Jacksonville, Florida!! I will add it to my pile. 

Journal Entry 12 by BooksAndJava from Knoxville, Tennessee USA on Sunday, January 07, 2007

After several tries and false starts, I've decided to send this book along to the next bookcrosser in the bookray. With a six-month-old at home, I need something I can read in short bursts and this is certainly not that type of book. I want to give it another try somewhere down the road (17 years? ha ha) when I can sit down and read more than a few pages at a time.

I'm sorry I kept it for so long!

 

Journal Entry 13 by BooksAndJava from Knoxville, Tennessee USA on Tuesday, January 30, 2007

I realized I never journaled to say the book is on its way down under. :) So, just to let you know, Zen is on its way. 

Journal Entry 14 by felicia-fairy from Gold Coast, Queensland Australia on Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Thanks - received today!
I love the inscription inside the cover, I love that this book has a history far before even us Bookcrossers adopted it!
 

Journal Entry 15 by felicia-fairy from Gold Coast, Queensland Australia on Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Well, it seems I've had the same amount of luck as everyone else - I just couldn't get into this book either! I've given it a few goes, but it just doesn't grab me.
I will PM Jubby now for her address.
 

Journal Entry 16 by jubby from Sydney, New South Wales Australia on Monday, October 29, 2007

Journal Entry 17 by jubby from Sydney, New South Wales Australia on Thursday, December 13, 2007

I am so sorry that it has taken me so long with this book.

It is that crazy time of year, but I've only got one more week of work, and then I can give this book the attention that it deserves.

Thank you for your patience. 

Journal Entry 18 by jubby from Sydney, New South Wales Australia on Monday, December 31, 2007

Well! I am thinking of buying myself a little reward for finishing this book. It was a rather arduous journey.

This is a book that I had heard a lot about, and many older people (and family members) read this book in the 1970s, and remember it fondly. So, I came to this book expecting big things.

But, maybe I've read and heard so many thing like this that it lessened the impact for me. So, this book felt to me a bit like Dr Phil meets Jack Kerouac, with a bit of weird Zen philosophy thrown in.

While reading the book, I kept thinking of the message written in the front cover too. What did Grant mean by saying 'a great deal of this bok, including the tone, constitutes something basic to my interaction with him'?
I found the relationship between Chris and his father in this book rather annoying. His father being a man who rather fancied he knows all the answers to life, and rarely admits to inexperience and doubts.
Life could be rather difficult with a father like that!

Well, that is my two cents worth.

Thank you very much for sharing this book with me. It's made me want to go back and read 'On the road'.
3/1/08: I've PMed -BookHaven- who has asked to be skipped, because of work commitments, so posting on to Vunna.

Thanks again Dospescados. 

Journal Entry 19 by jubby at Bookring in Bookring, A Bookring -- Controlled Releases on Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Released 4 yrs ago (1/2/2008 UTC) at Bookring in Bookring, A Bookring -- Controlled Releases

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Posted to Vunna. 

Journal Entry 20 by Vunna from Sofia, Sofiya-Grad Bulgaria on Thursday, January 17, 2008

Received yesterday from jubby, thank you!