Abrams and written by award-winning novelist Doug Dorst, is the chronicle of two readers finding each other in the margins of a book and enmeshing themselves in a deadly struggle between forces they don’t understand, and it is also Abrams and Dorst’s love letter to the written word.

The readers: Jennifer and Eric, a college senior and a disgraced grad student, both facing crucial decisions about who they are, who they might become, and how much they’re willing to trust another person with their passions, hurts, and fears. The writer: Straka, the incendiary and secretive subject of one of the world’s greatest mysteries, a revolutionary about whom the world knows nothing apart from the words he wrote and the rumors that swirl around him. Straka, in which a man with no past is shanghaied onto a strange ship with a monstrous crew and launched onto a disorienting and perilous journey. The book: Ship of Theseus, the final novel by a prolific but enigmatic writer named V.M. She responds with notes of her own, leaving the book for the stranger, and so begins an unlikely conversation that plunges them both into the unknown. Inside it are his margin notes, which reveal a reader entranced by the story and by its mysterious author. Abrams (the film-maker) directed the project while award-winning author Doug Dorst supplied the words.

I knew it would be right up my alley with its annotations and inserts, but I’d just never gotten around to reading it. If you enjoy mysteries, you’ll love this book. Straka, whose true identity has never been revealed but who is. A world of mystery, menace, and desire.Ī young woman picks up a book left behind by a stranger. S, also known as Ship of Theseus by JJ Abrams and Doug Dorst, had been sitting on my shelf for probably six or seven yearsa Christmas gift from a colleague. As we learn from the marginalia, Ship of Theseus is the final novel by mysterious author V.

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