The Unabridged Pocketbook of Lightning (Pocket Penguins 70's)

by Jonathan Safran Foer | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0141023066 Global Overview for this book
Registered by ukcanaus of Melbourne CBD, Victoria Australia on 5/23/2008
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4 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by ukcanaus from Melbourne CBD, Victoria Australia on Friday, May 23, 2008
This is #11 of the Penguin 70 series.

From the cover:

"Widely acknowledged as one of the most inventive new voices in contemporary fiction, Jonathan Safran Foer is proof of Penguin's ongoing commitment to finding and publishing the bravest new writing. Safran Foer's debut, Everything is Illuminated, won the Guardian's First Book Award in 2002, and The Unabridged Pocketbook of Lightning is packed with the wit, imagination and exuberance that make his work essential reading."



As I was fortunate to find another copy of this book, this one will be sent as a bookray.



Journal Entry 2 by ukcanaus from Melbourne CBD, Victoria Australia on Monday, May 26, 2008
Offered as a bookray on May 23

Read it, PM the next person for their address, and send it on (this book should not take long to read!).

Please make a journal entry when you receive the book and also to say what you thought of the book when you've finished reading it. PM me if you cannot contact the next person on the list too. Thanks! :)


The order for this ray:

1. franaloe (The Netherlands)
2. katrinat (UK)
3. orange-platypus (UK)
4. Annodyne (UK)<-- Book is here




Journal Entry 3 by ukcanaus from Melbourne CBD, Victoria Australia on Thursday, June 5, 2008

Sent to franaloe today.

Journal Entry 4 by franaloe from Utrecht, Utrecht Netherlands on Tuesday, June 10, 2008
The book arrived in the Netherlands today! This is going to be a quick but very nice read I think. I just noticed that the book contains a part of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, which I already read, but I am defenitely looking forward to the other short story.

Journal Entry 5 by franaloe from Utrecht, Utrecht Netherlands on Monday, June 30, 2008
Sent to Katrinat today.

I really like the way Jonathan Safran Foer writes. It is just great, and so is the little story in this pocketbook of lightning. It is that I've already read Extremely Loud and Increadibly Close, otherwise I'd start reading it right away.

Ukcanaus, thanks for sharing!

Journal Entry 6 by katrinat from Southend-on-Sea, Essex United Kingdom on Thursday, July 17, 2008
Arrived today, looks like a nice quick read

Journal Entry 7 by katrinat from Southend-on-Sea, Essex United Kingdom on Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Hmmm.... not a hundred percent sure about this, he seems to be trying very hard to be clever. Will post as soon as I get the next address.
p.s orange-platypus asked to be skipped.

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passed on to the next in line

Journal Entry 9 by Annodyne from Sale, Cheshire United Kingdom on Sunday, August 10, 2008

It's now with me. I have one more book to read before getting round to this one, but hope to be reading and journalling again soon.

Journal Entry 10 by Annodyne from Sale, Cheshire United Kingdom on Thursday, August 21, 2008
Well, I had it read about 10 minutes after I'd made the last journal entry! As I'd already read Extremely Loud...(together with Everything is Illuminated), there were only a few pages of material that were new to me and which I eagerly devoured. I do like Jonathan Safran Foer's inventive style of writing, and am intrigued by his attempt to give shape to the different forms of the spaces between the words people use with those who are close to them. There is always that edge of tension, of reproach and slight insinuation, between people who share a history, and I think he has it spot on. What a shame he couldn't develop the idea further, and it has to remain as a (very) short story, but I enjoyed reading it anyway.

Thank you to ukcanaus for setting the book off on its travels. It is small enough to fit into a pocket or a bag, and I've got this one earmarked for an early wild release!

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