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11 journalers for this copy...
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The book is leaving today...all the way from Sydenham to Minneapolis!! Looking very much forward to all your comments on the book. the pic is the building where my office is located... seems grand, doesn't it?
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Here the official shipping list, which is not going to be changed as far as the US bit is concerned, as some of the members are only prepared to ship within their own country:USA: Flashgirl, Piper1, kymberlie, Lorelei03, caligula03 Canada: Dragonfly4 Germany: Dani75, goldloeckchen Sossap - Portugal<--- the book is here! Gatsbythesee - Italy lavale - Italy Solimano - Italy beckys - Italy Silviazza - Italy Kernow8 - UK loopy1 - UK talkland - UK Balham - UK Benjaminread - UK ----->no longer BC active<----- Theresa-A - UK flajol - UK laura0141 - UK YowlYY - UK ----->start of the bookray<----- veritas9 - Australia(moved at the beginning of the bookray as did not answer the PMs) HOW TO USE MY BOOKRING… 1. First of all, as soon as the book arrives, please make a journal entry to inform about its safe arrival. 2. The book gets to be the first on your TBR pile – if problems, please contact me timely (see 3.). 3. PM the person next in line in order to obtain his/her mailing address and to find out if he/she is ok with receiving the book soon after… If the person is going away or on vacation for longer, please PM me and I will move him/her down the line (suggestions welcome). 4. Although the book is a second-hand one, please try to avoid eating while reading, especially if your fancy lies in chips, saucy currys, ice cream, spaghetti al pomodoro or anything that could stain forever the pages... However, if you promise to eat while protecting the book with a transparent plastic screen.... 5. After reading the book, make another entry and add your comments as you like… pics uplodaded and quotes welcome 6. ship the book to the next reader (no release note pleeeze!) and…you've made it!!!! Thanks to everyone who joined in, and I hope you all will enjoy the book – I look forward to reading all your comments in due time. |
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Calcutta has arrived safely in Minneapolis, and I'm already on Chapter 5! (Though the chapters are short, I admit...) Will read and report back ASAP. This picture is Minneapolis in some crazy parallel universe where everything is a funny color.Thanks for sharing, YowlYY! |
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Friends who read this book after me: Do not make the same mistake I did! Don’t assume this will be just like all those mainstream mystery/thrillers where you don’t need to pay too much attention because you know everything will be neatly explained at the end. This is not one of those books! I read it, in fact, because a friend of mine asked me to. “PLEASE! Read it and tell me what happened,” she begged. Being one who prides herself on her logical mind, I took the challenge. But as I read, I was lulled into complacency by the oh-so-gradual thickening of the mystery plotline. The chapters were short, the story was interesting, and next thing you know I was three pages from the end, with a sinking feeling: “There’s no way the author could possibly wrap this up in three pages!” Lack of linear answers aside, this was definitely a good time. I enjoyed it for the delerious mystery, the hazy coincidences, the atmospheric metaphors. So what if I have no idea what happened? I even grew to like how irritating and abrasive the character of Murugan was.Some thought-provoking questions follow (WARNING: may contain spoilers!). To read them, highlight the text with your mouse. At the end of the story, Murugan is in a mental institution. Is he really crazy and all this was just in his head? (Seems like an awfully simple explanation.) Or has he been placed there so no one will take his crazy theories seriously (until Antar does)? Murugan says that he is just a pawn of the "secret society," that he is putting together pieces of the mystery for someone else to solve later (which will cause a mutation of reality)... is Antar that person? What is the mutation the secret society wishes to create? And why? (In writing these questions, I feel like I am Murugan: just a pawn, putting together small pieces of this puzzle for someone else to solve later, once the big picture becomes clearer!) When they are in the taxi to the station, Urmila promises Sonali and Murugan that wherever she goes, she will take them both with her. Years later in New York, Urmila/Tara has Sonali/Maria with her, but Murugan seems to have been left behind. Is the virtual reality SimVis that Antar experiences the beginning of a process for Urmila to live up to her promise to Murugan (giving him immortality by bringing him into Antar's body)? But wait, wouldn't that involve some sort of medical procedure that would have to happen in person? What was the deal with the mystery train and the red railway lantern? Why did Phulboni give up shooting after this experience at the train station? What happened to him in the end? Did he finally "find the silence" he had been looking for all his life? What happened to Romen? Was he one of the cult of silence, or was he its victim? What does it all mean? HELP! Calcutta is on her way to Piper1 in today's mail. |
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Some further questions generated in e-mail discussion between piper1 and I: Piper1 asks, “was it just a chosen few [who became “immortal”], or everyone In that secret society? Like you said in your journal entry - what was with that train & red lantern? Did they just keep killing people they didn't want in on the secret?” As for me, I keep wondering about the immortality piece. Remind me: how exactly did that work? It seems like it all started with the people with syphillis being treated with malarial cells. And something about the membranes in the brain being thin or weak. Antar has malaria, and I think it's implied that Murugan is intentionally infected by someone in the secret society... is that so he can HAVE immortality, or so he can be a host body to someone else? The more I think about it, the more I realize that whether it's good or bad, a confusing book sure is fun to read in a book ring! I can't wait to see what everyone else thinks! |
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Journal Entry 16 by
Released 7 yrs ago (9/11/2004 UTC) at WILD RELEASE NOTES:
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Journal Entry 20 by
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This book has washed ashore at the Lost Book Island after not being heard from for many months. This new arrival will be shown to a room and be allowed a bit of rest before being introduced to the many fun things to do here at the island.All around there are books sipping cool drinks under shady palms while other books participate in a wide variety of beach sports. There is plenty of sand, surf and sun here for all of the lost and wayward books to enjoy. It is hoped that very soon a new journal entry will come to rescue this book from the island and send it back out into the BookCrossing world so that it may continue on its journey. It is hoped that the new journal entry will tell all the interested parties where this book has been this long time and where it will be traveling to next. |
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