Registered for release!

Another from the BookCrossing Meeting of 24.02.07, Fopps Cafe, Central Manchester. I recently saw this included in a list of "best books of our time" so I thought it must be worth trying.

Finished reading this 21.03.07. This is a great book, I love the way all the bits of the story fit into each other like a jigsaw! Very satisfying. The characters all have a profound effect on each other, not always consciously. The main female character suffers from narcolepsy, but sleep in its other manifestations plays a big part in the plot. Gregory Dudden is one of the most unsympathetic fictional personalities I have ever come across and one longs for him to get his come uppance, which happens hilariously in a prestigious management seminar. But the "mad" episode near the end is perhaps a tad overdone.

It's a funny book, but it also poses some deep questions about identity and relationships - is gender important, or would you love someone because they are themselves, no matter what sex they happened to be?

Left this book at Fopps Cafe, after the Bookcrossing meeting on 31/03/2007.

picked up at the meeting

I enjoyed this book, once i got into it i read it in pretty much one sitting (nightshifts have got to be useful for something)

Wow, lots of clever people have liked this. I probably will unless I'm in a bad mood. Looks intriguing (darn it, I thought I'd done so well taking eleven books to the last meeting. Then I came home with *seven*. Help me)!

After reading this, I made various selfish and pathetic noises at the last meeting and said that I wanted to keep it myself and not let anyone else have it, ever. I'm mean like that. I have had, however, a rare attack of what I believe is called conscience, and so I'm going to bring it to the next meeting in the hope that nobody wants it and I can evilly and slyly slip it into my bag, cackling gently, at the end. (To be fair, no one else showed any interest in it.)It's so very clever and fun, emotionally as well as psychologically. The article with the missed footnote is a piece of utter genius. Oh damn it, I'm going to read it again with pleasure at some point so I'm just going to damn well keep it. I shall release something else from my shelves in its place.