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Starting this soon! In a hurry. More to come later!

This book is AMAZING! (Confusing at first, but AMAZING!)

It's worth it! I promise it comes together.

I read it twice, it's so bloody good.

Awesome - Looking forward to it!

Cool! Great comments:) So far it's just Terry and I. Feel free to join us! I'd be ready to start it today. Does that sound good?

I can start tomorrow. Whole family is going to one of those break out rooms tonight - we'll see if we escape!

Ok. Tomm is good for me too! Sounds like a blast. Been wanting to try that. You will have to tell me how it is and if it's worth it!

Yes, I'll let you know. Hopefully we'll all still be talking to each other when it's over!

Break out room was a blast! We missed making it out by just a few minutes, but had a lot of fun figuring it out - and everyone is still talking to each other, too :)

Thats awesome! Sounds like a fun time. I will definitely have to check it out. My dad and my boys would love to do something like that. Do you think its appropriate for an 8 yr old?

Our group was my wife and I, my 16yr old, my 9yr old, and our two 16yr old nieces. Everybody had fun, including my youngest He likes puzzles and math, which was a lot of the stuff in our room. We asked when we signed up and they helped us pick the room that was best for the young guy.

Cool! I might try it out for my son's birthday in September. I think he wud love it!

That sounds fun!

I 5 starred this book back in August '16. It's an awesome story. You need to read it carefully, it's quite complex in the first half, by the time you get into the 2nd half it all pulls together.

A great story.

This was available from my library digitally, so I'll join in

Sounds great Scott! Welcome! Just started this myself and it's pretty cool so far.

Welcome Scott! I'm only about 20 pages in, but what a strange beginning so far.

I stopped at ch2. Very strange indeed:)

I tried starting this tonight but I couldn't keep my eyes open. No fault of the book just a long day. Somehow though I ended up on page 25 on my kindle and no idea what I read! Haha

I'm starting over fresh tomorrow.

As I pointed out earlier, the story is quite complex and there is a lot to take on early. But it is very much worth persevering with.

Trust me - it's a killer story.

Thanks Graeme

Ch1(view spoiler)[I'm interested to see how Carolyn is going to find an innocent heart in America (hide spoiler)]

Addy wrote: "Ch1[spoilers removed]"

Yeah, (view spoiler)[ I laughed at her reluctance when she was asked. (hide spoiler)]

Carolyn is highly focused and motivated. Watch her carefully.

I'm still recovering from the awesomeness of this story.

11811 (Eleven) wrote: "I'm still recovering from the awesomeness of this story."

Great to know Eleven! Are u going to be lurking?

Graeme Rodaughan wrote: "Carolyn is highly focused and motivated. Watch her carefully."

Thanks for the heads up! Seems like she might have her own motivations.

Addy wrote: "11811 (Eleven) wrote: "I'm still recovering from the awesomeness of this story."

Great to know Eleven! Are u going to be lurking?"

Of course. It's what I do.

Scott wrote: "I tried starting this tonight but I couldn't keep my eyes open. No fault of the book just a long day. Somehow though I ended up on page 25 on my kindle and no idea what I read! Haha

I'm starting o..."

If you said you made it to page 25 of this book and understood what you read (even if fully awake), I would think you were lying! ;)

End of ch2(view spoiler)[I'm not sure what happened here other than the fact that Carolyn is trying to cover her tracks (hide spoiler)]

Addy wrote: "End of ch2[spoilers removed]"

Yes, it took me a little bit to figure out that was probably what she was doing. In ch3 (view spoiler)[ it's hard after reading the interlude flash backs what kind of timescale this story is spanning across. (hide spoiler)]

Ch2(view spoiler)[Rachel having to strangle infants to make her agents sounds kind of extreme doesn't it? (hide spoiler)]

There are all kinds of strange statements about stuff like that, aren't there? (view spoiler)[ and that is mentioned just so off-hand, like it wasn't a big deal to Carolyn as she's telling us, too. It is extreme! (hide spoiler)]

Terry wrote: "There are all kinds of strange statements about stuff like that, aren't there? [spoilers removed]"

Yes, I agree(view spoiler)[just like that story about the widow and the sad circumstances between herself and her son...Jennifer called it heart coal (hide spoiler)]

Yes, that was another strange one! (view spoiler)[ What a crazy idea that those people are dead and resurrected, and have no relation to each other, too! (hide spoiler)]

Well (view spoiler)[if you can die and be resurrected easily, the whole moral issue around death disappears - it becomes trivial. What's not trivial is the suffering associated with the method of dying. (hide spoiler)]

In this story, power over reality is (view spoiler)[mediated via language. Each of the students are marked by their mastery of one or more languages. Bear this in mind as you read it. (hide spoiler)]

I just made it to ch4. I didn't realize how much I had left of ch3.

Np, Addy :). I'm right at ch5.

Nice comments, Graeme. Those are both fascinating ideas that I'm interested to see play out as we move forward in the story.

Graeme Rodaughan wrote: "Well [spoilers removed]"

yes, that makes sense. if dying is trivial, then does no one truly die? i guess, unless someone resurrects you. still, its kind of a hard concept to swallow..

Addy wrote: "Graeme Rodaughan wrote: "Well [spoilers removed]"

yes, that makes sense. if dying is trivial, then does no one truly die? i guess, unless someone resurrects you. still, its kind of a hard concept ..."

Certainly confuses the idea of using violence against somebody to get what you want.

I'm in the middle of ch4 and ch5 isn't that long, so I'm gonna stop at ch6. It's been one of those days, where I haven't been able to do much reading:(

Np! I've not been able to read today either. I'll try to get to ch6 also.

Funny title for ch6! In ch5, (view spoiler)[ Markus sure got what he deserved! What a fascinating idea that the lion could either kill its prey with no pain, or the ultimate pain, and that as the hunter, it decides. Props to nature I guess. (hide spoiler)]

i know i havent been writing much, but thats because im still trying to put s@# together (as Erwin woud say). Plus i cant stand this Erwin guy. Not a very likable character for me.

No worries and no rush! I'm still at the start of ch6 anyway.

Im sorry. I meant that im trying to put this book together in my head...lol. How are you fairing?

Good! I'm still confused - but, in a curious, want to keep reading it to figure it out kind of way :)