Journal Entry 1 by loopy1 from Herne Bay, Kent United Kingdom on Monday, July 07, 2003

According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter - the world's only totally reliable guide to the future - the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just after tea...

I've read a couple of pages so far, and I love it! from the caveat on the first page: "Kids: Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your own home." to the cast list , which includes "Full chorus of Tibetans, Aliens, Americans, Atlanteans and other rare and strange creatures of the Last Days". It looks like typical Terry Pratchett fun and I look forward to reading it. Then I hope to send it out on a bookray.
 

Journal Entry 2 by loopy1 from Herne Bay, Kent United Kingdom on Monday, July 07, 2003

Interested in this so far are (post order):
Leanne345 (UK)
Lucycat (UK)
jmg49 (Canada)
andycap14 (california, USA)
16stepper (Arizona, USA)
LarkOnapost (Oregon, USA)
Lotus-Flower (Lisbon, Portugal)
nrrdgrrl (netherlands)
kerisa (Berlin, Germany)
fio-dagua Portugal
Caracas Germany
MrFancyTeeth Singapore
DianeO UK
JesseBC US
Mawolf Germany
Anyone else wishing to join please pm; you'll be added to the bottom of the list.
 

Journal Entry 3 by loopy1 from Herne Bay, Kent United Kingdom on Tuesday, July 15, 2003

Well, I finished this book. Not sure where Neil Gaiman comes in, because this is typical Terry Pratchett, except not on Discworld. Footnotes and humorous comments abound.
Interesting ideas about the end of the world, which seem to echo others I've come across recently, not least the Northern Lights series by Philip Pullman.
This book will be heading out to leanne345 tomorrow.
 

Journal Entry 4 by Leanne345 from Liverpool, Merseyside United Kingdom on Thursday, July 31, 2003

Got this book today, thanks very much. Shall read on my holiday when i go tomorrow - might make the train journey go faster! 

Journal Entry 5 by Leanne345 from Liverpool, Merseyside United Kingdom on Sunday, August 24, 2003

I loved this book! Shall pass it on to the next person asap! 

Journal Entry 6 by lucycat from Hull, East Yorkshire United Kingdom on Monday, September 01, 2003

Hurrah! Landed on the mat this morning, in a rare and fortuitous moment of perfect BookCrossing timing, as I was a hundred pages from the end of the thoroughly absorbing 'Mystery', by Peter Straub, and idly starting to wonder what to read next.

Will crack on straight away, and then it'll go surface rather than Air over to John in Canada, as I've a few other books to go to him that I've been meaning to send for ages! In an nice little twist that's just occurred to me, it was actually John that sent me 'Mystery', too...:O)

Update 14/9/03

'Good Omens' is currently en route to Jmg49 (set off on 11th Sept)...and now through the miracle of 'edit journal entry', I can go back in time and let you know what I thought to it...

My boy has been nattering on at me for ages now to read Terry Pratchett, and I always stubbornly refuse...and since I read 'Coraline' I've been nagging him to read Neil Gaiman, and he hasn't...but we both absolutely adored this.

Witty and indescribably clever, wry and funny and deliciously dark...bloody brilliant stuff, (also, although I have a deeply irrational loathing for footnotes, the ones herein were hysterical.)

Perhaps the tide is a-turning...am off to covertly dig out 'The Colour of Magic' now while boy is away in Bristol to avoid unbearable smugness...;O) 

Journal Entry 7 by jmg49 from Woodstock, Ontario Canada on Wednesday, October 15, 2003

Thanks, Lucy. This came in the mail yesterday. I'm really looking forward to reading it. 

Journal Entry 8 by jmg49 from Woodstock, Ontario Canada on Thursday, November 13, 2003

I'm sorry it's taking me so long to read this book. I've been having some medical problems and due to pain and other factors my concentration hasn't been there. I will have it read and mailed to the next recipient some time next week. 

Journal Entry 9 by jmg49 from Woodstock, Ontario Canada on Sunday, November 16, 2003

I have finished reading this book today. I enjoyed it very much. It was full of clever dialogue and was extremely funny.
I will mail it to 16stepper this week. 

Journal Entry 10 by jmg49 from Woodstock, Ontario Canada on Monday, November 17, 2003

I will mail this to 16stepper this afternoon.
Enjoy! 

Journal Entry 11 by 16stepper from Gilbert, Arizona USA on Saturday, November 29, 2003

Good Omens has arrived in Gilbert. I will add it to the stack o' rays and keep reading my way through it. 

Journal Entry 12 by 16stepper from Gilbert, Arizona USA on Wednesday, January 21, 2004

Clever and funny book about the End Times. It's the ineffability of it all that appeals to me more than the the Left Behind series ever has. Thanks for sharing this, Loopy1. Sorry it took so long for me to get to it! Mailing to LarkOnAPost today. 

Journal Entry 13 by LarkOnapost from Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco Mexico on Friday, January 30, 2004

Journal Entry 14 by LarkOnapost from Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco Mexico on Saturday, July 03, 2004

It's long past time that I apologize to all involved for having stalled this book's journey. I am currently working on a project 25 miles from the nearest post office, and I have found no contractors who mail internationally on weekends. I did plan to have another bookcrosser mail the book for me, but that did not work out.

The above is a bad excuse, I could have mailed it before the project started, I just never got around to it... Now this book is my albatross, my shame, that nasty mark on my bookcrossing record... It sits on my virtual bookshelf and scowls at me. In reality it is with all of my belongings in a storage unit in La Grande.

I will be finished with my project on July 31. I promise to mail it to the next bookcrosser then.

Bad, bad, Lark.

I am very sorry I have spoiled the game so badly. 

Journal Entry 15 by LarkOnapost from Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco Mexico on Monday, October 11, 2004

The nerve of some people. I have finally escaped LarkOnapost and am on my way to the Netherlands and then Africa. After all that bird put me through I am not in the best shape but you wouldn't look so good either after spending almost 9 months with Lark. At one point, I was caged in a storage unit. Then, she dragged me to Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington and back to northeast Oregon. Apparantly, she thought she'd get her flakey act together somewhere in there and mail me on the road. But noooooo, instead, her water jug leaked all over me thoroughly drenching all 383 pages. So then this chick sticks me in her freezer! Like I haven't been through enough! Instead of drying out I freeze into a solid brick. After about two weeks of that, I am placed in a sunny place to dry, and she puts stickers on my inside cover as some sort of, reinforcement? I don't know. Who knows what she was thinking. All I know is, I am out of here. I never want to visit northeast Oregon again. Lark has been locked in her bathroom with a bunch of non-fiction and I've stolen her wallet and hitched a ride to the post office. I hope I am respected in the future.

God, that awful, pleading, ass kissing journal entry she wrote is just enough to make a book puke. Don't buy it. That bird is evil. 

Journal Entry 16 by nrrdgrrl from Fourways, Gauteng South Africa on Friday, November 12, 2004

the famous dutch comedian herman finkers* once stated: if you can't possibly tell new parents their child is beautiful, just because you can't lie that outrageously, then tell them: your child is very sweet.

this is one of the sweetest books i've seen in a long time.
there is very good news though. the poor booklet has - according to it's own statement - suffered enough already. i have just told it it doesn't have to travel to dangerous west africa. due to the current reinvigoration of the war in the ivory coast, the new reader is no longer stationed there.

while waiting for a new assignment, it's conveniently being enveloped by safety in the netherlands for both of us now. and as much as i'm looking forward to reading this book, i'm already wondering if a pratchett overdose might occur. just today i sent out the last book i read: pratchett's night watch. i'll keep you posted!

[*more about the king of the understatement here, but i'm afraid it's apparently only in dutch] 

Journal Entry 17 by nrrdgrrl from Fourways, Gauteng South Africa on Monday, November 22, 2004

good news for larkonapost: all the freezing and drying and stickering and whatnot has been well worth the effort. the book is perfectly legible - and readable!

it took me a while to get into the story, but now i'm well on my way. it's a peculiar mix between two different types of high intelligence; gaiman's true darkness and pratchett's multi-omni-everything. 

Journal Entry 18 by nrrdgrrl from Fourways, Gauteng South Africa on Friday, November 26, 2004

gaiman's finger exercise for american gods, and pratchett just being himself. i found the buildup somewhat lenghty, the concept brilliant, the finishing appropriate. all in all a very enjoyable read and i'm happy to have had the chance to read this. thanks!

update 13 dec.: this book's fate now depends on dianeo. kerisa is terribly busy; after that it has disappointed me how many people just don't react on friendly pm's about a ray they subscribed for! 

Journal Entry 19 by nrrdgrrl at Controlled Release in Controlled Release, --by post or by hand (ie ring, ray, RABCK, trade) -- Controlled Releases on Wednesday, December 15, 2004

Released on Wednesday, December 15, 2004 at about 12:00:00 PM BX time (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada) at Controlled Release in Controlled Release, Controlled Release Controlled Releases.

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whodathought: good omens is on it's way again. it's off to dianeo in england. depending on the postal gods it might even arrive before christmas.

it's a good thing the book has finally left hilversum! otherwise it would have had to join me to africa after all.
my apologies for the unusual packaging; i'm convinced it won't get hurt any worse and it is now safe from being treated as a parcel. 

Journal Entry 20 by DianeO from Chesterfield, Derbyshire United Kingdom on Friday, December 24, 2004

Received today - thanks! A perfect choice to read over Christmas. 

Journal Entry 21 by DianeO from Chesterfield, Derbyshire United Kingdom on Sunday, January 09, 2005

This is simply one of the most thoughtful, insightful and funny books I have ever read! By far the most enjoyable book by Terry Pratchett and I'm off now to find another by Neil Gaiman. Thanks for sharing!

Update 28th Jan - Just heard from JesseBC who has asked to be skipped. PM on it's way to MaWolf...

Update 8th Feb - On it's way to Germany! 

Journal Entry 22 by DianeO at on Tuesday, February 08, 2005

Released 7 yrs ago (2/8/2005 UTC) at

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Journal Entry 23 by calisson from Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg Germany on Saturday, August 20, 2005

came today by mail after all this time, I can't believe it.
However it looks so miserable, as if it's had been lying in a very wet place for quite a while, poor book....

Update:
This is a wonderful book. I had it already in a German translation years ago, however that was nothing compared to the original. A great read! 

Journal Entry 24 by calisson from Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg Germany on Wednesday, July 05, 2006

I passed it on to Mary-T.
Enjoy! 

Journal Entry 25 by Mary-T from Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg Germany on Sunday, July 09, 2006

Well - talked about this book a couple of days ago - and voilà: during the special meet-up in Mannheim calisson already gave it to me!
Thanks so much, calisson! :)
After only reading the notes of the authors, I'm really interested in reading it!
But since I have here so many books I need to read - I assume it will take me some time... so enough for now -
to be continued... ;)

Also interested (and will receive this as soon as I read it):
soleille


31-December-09
Ups - somehow this was out of my mind.
But, thanks to the challenge: "Vom Mount Everest zum Brocken" I've read it.
Or better: I tried. This is not my cup of tea....

So, I've asked Soleille if she's still interested...


4-Jan-09
... on its way to soleille 

Journal Entry 26 by soleille from Leipzig, Sachsen Germany on Saturday, January 16, 2010

This book has arrived safe (while, not surprisingly, not very sound anymore, but in better shape than I would have expected) and is now in my drawer at work as a standby for the next "Oh my god, my current read is finished and I'm stuck at work for 12 hours" ordeal :O)