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marko167

From Sitges, Barcelona Spain
Age 56
Joined Wednesday, October 22, 2003
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Absolute book nut, never ever without something to read. Originally from Finland, lived in UK for about 30 years, but moved to Madrid in January 2004. Since then have decided to earn a bit of cash so am contracting over Europe. THE First twelve months (Feb 2005-Feb 2006) in Brussels passed well enough and am now for a year going to be in Basel, Switzerland. Not bad considering I am travel phobic (terrified of flying and scared of driving).

My big authors are Gabriel Garcia Marquez, John Irving, Frank Herbert, Chuck Palahniuk and Iain Banks.

Mediterranaen junkie, currently saving for a casa rural/brasserie somewhere in the south of France or in the Catalan region of Spain. Intend to end my days living in this most wonderful part of the world.

New big passion is sailing. After an experimental week tryout in Greece have decided that yachting will have to become one of my regular weekend and holiday activities.

Collect Booker Prize winners.

Manic Leeds Utd supporter for my sins.

I am willing to LEND books from my PC but and it is a big but, only to people I know and can trust. Sorry, if you are new and eager but my PC is important to me and whilst I enjoy sharing, only when I am convinced that there is a good chance of the book being returned to me.

When the PM system is not functioning please use the below email address, please put bookcrossing in the subject line so I can distinguish it from spam. Thanks :o)

marko167@hotmail.com

My Rings/Rays are listed below, PM with location and shippin preferences to join:




The Nobel Spiral.


In short it is a book spiral (series of rings, each book following the previous with 1 month delay between each). Each book is one of the works of the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. The work from each author will be chosen either by selecting the authors seminal work or if this is not obvious or if I think there may be a problem with this book then by consulting with the mages of BookTalk.

Here’s the running order:

marko167
geetheflea<==== Snow is on it's way here
Brunton11
katrinat
iliotropio <==== The Hive and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich are here
afraberg
**********************Sorry to say Fotomiep is suspended from the spiral temporarily (I hope) as there has been no contact from her for a couple of months and two books are no presumed lost. I will purchase two replacements. Fotomiep please contact us to let us know that you are OK, anyone who has info please let us know if everything is OK.************************
fotomiep<==== The Plague and Siddhartha are here
Marsala<==== Blindness is here
Moonwoolf<==== For Whom the Bell Tolls are here
hioniam
Dworin
Bibliocrates <==== Pygmallion is here
NMReader
jaenelle<===== Waiting for the Barbarians is here

I will try to mix up nationality and decade of the winners so we all get a good mix of styles, subject and method.

Book 1 - Waiting for the Barbarians J. M. Coetzee, South Africa, 2003
Book 2 - The Plague Albert Camus, Algeria/France, 1957
Book 3 - Siddhartha Hermann Hesse, Germany, 1946
Book 4 - For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemmingway, USA, 1954
Book 5 - Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw, Ireland, 1925
Book 6 - The Hive Camilo José Cela, Spain, 1989
Book 7 - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russia, 1970
Book 8 - Blindness José Saramago, Portugal, 1998
Book 9 - Snow Orhan Pamuk, Turkey, 2006
Book x - The Waste Land T. S. Eliot, USA, 1948



The Silent by Jack Dann - Ray completed.

The First Rule of the Ring is you do not talk about the Ring bookring : Fight Club by Chuck Palahuik - The Ring was completed successfully and the book now resides in my PC. Many thanks Space Monkeys

The Going Straight to Hell Bookring : The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto by Mario Vargas Llosa - STALLED by bookreadera

Winnie the Pooh audiobook Bookray. STALLED BY WILLOWSNOW :O(

The Favorite Game bookray by Leonard Cohan STALLED by JohnSteed



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