The Ghost Road (The Regeneration Trilogy)

by Pat Barker | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0140236287 Global Overview for this book
Registered by Jenatleisure of Chobham, Surrey United Kingdom on 2/20/2005
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Journal Entry 1 by Jenatleisure from Chobham, Surrey United Kingdom on Sunday, February 20, 2005
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!

Journal Entry 2 by dodau from Ellesmere Port, Cheshire United Kingdom on Monday, February 28, 2005
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.

Journal Entry 3 by dodau from Ellesmere Port, Cheshire United Kingdom on Saturday, March 12, 2005
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.

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Journal Entry 5 by norafrvr from Kuwait, Kuwait Kuwait on Friday, July 15, 2005
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 :)

Journal Entry 6 by norafrvr from Kuwait, Kuwait Kuwait on Monday, August 8, 2005
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!

Journal Entry 7 by NeedSun from Perth Road, Ontario Canada on Thursday, September 29, 2005
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.

Journal Entry 8 by NeedSun from Perth Road, Ontario Canada on Tuesday, October 4, 2005
Sent by surface mail today to tania-in-nc

Journal Entry 9 by tania-in-nc from Mooresville, North Carolina USA on Wednesday, October 12, 2005
'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.

Journal Entry 10 by tantan from Melbourne CBD, Victoria Australia on Sunday, January 15, 2006
Received today - thanks tania-in-nc!

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