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Journal Entry 3 by cosminx from Hackham, South Australia Australia on Monday, November 19, 2007
 we're in complete agreement about this one, groobs. difficult to see what the fuss was about, and impossible for me to finish it - i gave up after 100 pages. i'll include it in a secret santa parcel, and maybe the next reader will think it's the best thing ever written... :)
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Journal Entry 4 by cosminx from Hackham, South Australia Australia on Friday, December 07, 2007
i sent off my secret santa parcels today. i know they're liable to arrive much too early, but with it being a busy time of year for the post office, i'd rather they arrived early than late. i hope my recipient enjoys this book, and has a lovely christmas!!
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Journal Entry 5 by leeny37 from Melbourne, Victoria Australia on Friday, December 21, 2007
Oh, don't know if I will buck the trend, but let's see how it goes. Thanks for sending this to me! Happy holidays! :)
From Amazon.com:
"The whole river is like a huge army on the march, overrunning the countryside, taking all before it, collecting ever greater strength from every dripping moss-lined rock face, from every overexcited stream." This body of water, Tasmania's Franklin River, is agent of life and death in Australian writer Flanagan's dark, prophetic novel. Jason Krezwa and Aljaz Cosini are the guides on a rafting trip that turns bad when the river floods. One of the paying guests dies and, shortly afterward, Aljaz stumbles into the raging waters and drowns. Granted the legendary ability of drowning men to see their life flash before them, Aljaz envisions his life, the lives of his mother and father and their ancestors, too. Family histories intertwine with the story of the four-day river journey, a trip perversely confirming Aljaz's sense of utter failure. The narrative skips from Aljaz's father, Harry, to his great-grandfather Ned Quade, a convict who died in the Tasmanian wilderness escaping from his captors. Aljaz himself has led a sad life, the low point the death of his daughter, Jemma, which permanently soured his relationship with his lover, Couta Ho. Aljaz's vision deepens some knowledge he already possesses--for instance, that Harry's grandmother was an aborigine. Harry and Aljaz are both decent men whose lives narrow to a cycle of futile efforts and bad luck. Like Australian Nobelist Patrick White, Flanagan (The Sound of One Hand Clapping) has a sense of history as a vast entanglement of genealogies, beginning with the original sin of deportation and compounded by the extermination or expropriation of the "blackfellas." Flanagan has written a Tasmanian anti-epic, an honest, painful investigation of the repressed, convict-haunted past.
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Journal Entry 6 by leeny37 at Hewlett Packard building, St Kilda Rd in Melbourne, Victoria Australia on Friday, January 18, 2008
Released 4 yrs ago (1/18/2008 UTC) at Hewlett Packard building, St Kilda Rd in Melbourne, Victoria Australia WILD RELEASE NOTES:
RELEASE NOTES:
Well, HP building it will no longer be -- farewell, St. Kilda Road! This was released with a couple of other books to commemorate the last day out at St. Kilda Road before moving to suburbia. Please leave a message if you have found this book. Thank you! :)
If you should find this book and you're new to BookCrossing - WELCOME! You have found not only a book but a community of booklovers dedicated to the sharing of books. I hope that you will write a journal entry letting me know that this book has been found. Feel free to keep it or pass it on to a friend or set it out "in the wild" for someone else to find like you did. You may remain anonymous but if you are interested in joining please use leeny37 (that's me!) as your referrer. Thank you, and once again, welcome to BookCrossing! :)
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Journal Entry 7 by GaryH from Brisbane, Queensland Australia on Friday, February 01, 2008
Just about to start reading this book that I picked up on St.Kilda Road Melbourne, it is now in Brisbane Queensland. http://www.queenslandholidays.com.au/destinations/brisbane/
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Death of a river guide
