Just read "The Man Who Was Thursday" ..

Daxim on 9/2/2002 at 16:34

Smilla Jaspersen: does this ring a bell?

tripwood on 7/3/2002 at 07:03

i've emailed the man who wrote the mini parts for Jacob's shadow a few months ago. he assured me it was not a book that existed, and that pheraps he would use it for a real novel some day. he also sent me all the parts of Jacob's shadow, but asked that i not distribute it, so I won't. :D I was pretty amazed that he would respond so quickly and politely. :)

ICEBreaker on 15/3/2002 at 00:30

Just want to confirm that Jacob's Shadow is not a real book. The sections were written by (http://www.7crows.com) Chris Todd (web info from Tech).

King Ronald on 25/3/2002 at 18:53

I dont know about Smilla Jasperson, but Hippolyta Hall from Los Angeles is a big character in the Sandman comics by Neil Gaiman.

ICEBreaker on 26/3/2002 at 00:54

On the subject of the Hotel Register:

Gully Foyle - The Stars My Destination, by Mark Wilson

Gabriel Syme - The Man Who Was Thursday, by G.K. Chesterton

Oberst Enzian - Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon

(Corrections appreciated).

ICEBreaker on 26/3/2002 at 11:38

I got The Man Who was Thursday out from the school library today. So far I have read 4 chapters and it is quite interesting. I have not read novels for close to a decade and so am finding the language rather different from reading science papers. I saw Napoleon of Notting Hill next to it but it didn't strike me as very interesting. So many text books to read, I just don't have much time to indulge in literature.

Big Brother on 27/3/2002 at 02:36

I liked it -- I loved Sunday's deception. And the title is great, too.

Random on 28/3/2002 at 01:40

I thought TMWWT was an interesting book, but I didn't really 'get' it. Probably something you have to read a couple of times to really understand it.

If anyone wants to read it, you can get it here:

(http://www.ccel.org/c/chesterton/thursday/thursday.html)

It comes in various formats. Don't worry, it's legal. :)

vesuvius on 9/5/2002 at 19:15

Quote:

Originally posted by ICEBreaker
On the subject of the Hotel Register:

Gully Foyle - The Stars My Destination, by Mark Wilson

Gabriel Syme - The Man Who Was Thursday, by G.K. Chesterton

Oberst Enzian - Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon

(Corrections appreciated).

the stars my destination, originally entitled tyger tyger, was written by Alfred Bester. it's a DAMN GOOD book, so don't give credit to someone who had nothing to do with it while ignoring the author.

Meisterdieb on 14/6/2002 at 00:24

Smilla Jaspersen is from Peter Hoeg's Smilla's sense of snow
That was mentioned in this forum before.

But does anyone know why they put her name in the guest book of the 'ton;
or for that matter if they had reasons to put the other persons' names there?

Was it just for fun, because they were just reading that book, becasue they had liked this or that book; or are there any other links?