The Ghost Road (The Regeneration Trilogy)
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Third volume of the regeneration trilogy by Pat Barker
lent to the Booker prize winner ring run by Tantan
Decided to send the whole trilogy as it really is one story
Participants in this bookring:
on its way 24th feb
dodau (England)
lady-anglophile (Kuwait) on its way to Kuwait 22 march
blurbren (Malaysia)
NeedSun (Ontario, Canada)
tania-in-nc (North Carolina, USA)
tantan (Queensland, Australia)
fushmush (New South Wales, Australia)
meganh (Victoria, Australia)
boreal (New Zealand)
Lillyanna (Spain)
Jazz-ee2
Back to Jenatleisure in England!
lent to the Booker prize winner ring run by Tantan
Decided to send the whole trilogy as it really is one story
Participants in this bookring:
on its way 24th feb
dodau (England)
lady-anglophile (Kuwait) on its way to Kuwait 22 march
blurbren (Malaysia)
NeedSun (Ontario, Canada)
tania-in-nc (North Carolina, USA)
tantan (Queensland, Australia)
fushmush (New South Wales, Australia)
meganh (Victoria, Australia)
boreal (New Zealand)
Lillyanna (Spain)
Jazz-ee2
Back to Jenatleisure in England!
Recieved this morning through a very brief snowstorm. It says it is the final part of a trilogy so I hope that won't make it difficult to read.
decided to wait and view this trilogy together as a whole so apologies to previous readers who will get three copies of the same review. But as each book follows directly on from the end of the previous one they are in effect three sections of the same story.
That being said down to the story. This is set in the last two years of the great war and follows of the story of,Rivers a psychologist treating soldiers and some of his patients. Although quite a few different ones are featured the main one in Billy Prior. Sent home from the front mute and shellshocked the books follow his recovery, a posting in London and then his return to the front in the last months of the war. The last chapters of book three The Ghost Road are in the form of his diary and I found myself counting down the days knowing that he only had to survive until Nov 11th.
These are excellent books and I think should really be read as a whole to appreciate the depth of the story.
That being said down to the story. This is set in the last two years of the great war and follows of the story of,Rivers a psychologist treating soldiers and some of his patients. Although quite a few different ones are featured the main one in Billy Prior. Sent home from the front mute and shellshocked the books follow his recovery, a posting in London and then his return to the front in the last months of the war. The last chapters of book three The Ghost Road are in the form of his diary and I found myself counting down the days knowing that he only had to survive until Nov 11th.
These are excellent books and I think should really be read as a whole to appreciate the depth of the story.
Journal Entry 4 by dodau at To the next participant in Bookring/Bookray, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- Canada on Tuesday, March 22, 2005
Released 19 yrs ago (3/22/2005 UTC) at To the next participant in Bookring/Bookray, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- Canada
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received this book along with its other two volumes.i wont start reading it until a week from now since i have a book in hand that i should finish reading it and send it back to its owner.
many thanks all for sending this book my way :)
many thanks all for sending this book my way :)
i only reached half of this book then i decided to stop reading it!!! it seems i really lost interest in reading this trilogy or maybe i got tired of it after reading the 2 previous volumes!!!
thanks anyway for sending this book to me
i PM'd the next receiver of this book and i'm waiting the reply.
update 28th,Aug: mailed to NeedSun...Enjoy!
thanks anyway for sending this book to me
i PM'd the next receiver of this book and i'm waiting the reply.
update 28th,Aug: mailed to NeedSun...Enjoy!
This book arrived today along with three others, two of which are part of a trilogy, I am beginning to understand.
Thank you for sending them to me.
Thank you for sending them to me.
Sent by surface mail today to tania-in-nc
'Tis now here in North Carolina. My pile of books to read has grown by 4 this afternoon! But I'm not complaining :)
Update October 18th, 2005 -- This is next after She Walks These Hills by Sharyn McCrumb, c. 1994. A little sorbet between Booker winners!
I collect quotes as I read. These ones are fun, poetical, or even philosophical. Take what you like, and leave the rest. Note that these aren't necessarily the "best" in the book. These happen to be close to the spot where I stopped reading each night.
Bought this in a stationer's just off Fleet Street quite a long time agi. I've been carrying it round with me ever since unused, mainly because it's so grand. I bought it for the marbled covers and the thick creamy padges and ever since them the thick creamy pages have been saying, Piss off, what could 'you' possibly write on 'us' that would be worth reading? It's a marvellous shop, a real old-fashioned stationer's. Stationers', second-hand bookshops, ironmongers'. Feel a great need at the moment to concentrate on small pleasures. If the whole of one's life can be summoned up and held in the palm of one hand, 'in the living moment,' then time means nothing. World without end, Amen.
Load of crap. Facts are what we need, man. Facts. p107
Rivers would say, remember 'now' - any suppressed memory stores up trouble for the future. Well, too bad. Refusing to think's the only way I can survive and anyway what future? p193
[comment: something to ponder]
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Comment: I finished this last night. I have to admit that I was confused at times. It jumped too much for my liking. I will read the others in the series though.
Update October 18th, 2005 -- This is next after She Walks These Hills by Sharyn McCrumb, c. 1994. A little sorbet between Booker winners!
I collect quotes as I read. These ones are fun, poetical, or even philosophical. Take what you like, and leave the rest. Note that these aren't necessarily the "best" in the book. These happen to be close to the spot where I stopped reading each night.
Bought this in a stationer's just off Fleet Street quite a long time agi. I've been carrying it round with me ever since unused, mainly because it's so grand. I bought it for the marbled covers and the thick creamy padges and ever since them the thick creamy pages have been saying, Piss off, what could 'you' possibly write on 'us' that would be worth reading? It's a marvellous shop, a real old-fashioned stationer's. Stationers', second-hand bookshops, ironmongers'. Feel a great need at the moment to concentrate on small pleasures. If the whole of one's life can be summoned up and held in the palm of one hand, 'in the living moment,' then time means nothing. World without end, Amen.
Load of crap. Facts are what we need, man. Facts. p107
Rivers would say, remember 'now' - any suppressed memory stores up trouble for the future. Well, too bad. Refusing to think's the only way I can survive and anyway what future? p193
[comment: something to ponder]
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Comment: I finished this last night. I have to admit that I was confused at times. It jumped too much for my liking. I will read the others in the series though.
Received today - thanks tania-in-nc!