S., J. J. Abrams
S., J. J. Abrams
22 Rating(s)
List: $26.98 | Sale: $18.89
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S.

Author: J. J. Abrams, Doug Dorst

Narrator: Graeme Malcolm, Simon Prebble, Kevin T. Collins, Therese Plummer, Suzanne Toren

Unabridged: 26 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Published: 10/29/2013

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

One book. Two readers. A world of mystery, menace, and desire. A young woman picks up a book left behind by a stranger. Inside it are his margin notes, which reveal a reader entranced by the story and by its mysterious author. 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.The book: Ship of Theseus, the final novel by a prolific but enigmatic writer named V.M. 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 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.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.S., conceived by filmmaker J. J. 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by M.G. on December 04, 2013

As a tutor of homeschooled students in my community, I have to fight against a certain proclivity when reading books: no writing or marking them! The parents generally won't allow their children to "damage" the books, so they can be reused by younger siblings or resold to other homeschooling familie......more

Goodreads review by jessica on January 30, 2023

this isnt a book. its an experience. and one that captured both my heart and mind. because i wasnt just reading a story. i was participating in a mystery unfolding within the pages and witnessing a relationship developing in the margins in real time. this is an immersive love letter to storytelling,......more

Goodreads review by Janet on November 28, 2013

I wonder what it's like to be JJ Abrams. Does a trip to the supermarket become a frantic sortie into a grocerian wilderness? Do battles rage between produce and deli, with stalks of celery raining like arrows upon quivering chunks of roast beef and aged Vermont cheddar? Are the pizzas lurking in a co......more

Goodreads review by Wil on January 01, 2015

I just closed the book after finishing the final chapter. I'm profoundly confused and unsettled. I think I may have to go all the way back to the beginning, and read the margins again, going in chronological order (according to the colors) to piece together Jenn and Eric's story. I thought I'd figur......more

Goodreads review by Ruby on December 15, 2013

TEN. FUCKING. STARS. Okay, actually, in my mind it's more like 9.5 as I had some quibbles with the last chapter, however "9.5 stars" didn't quite sound right for a heading. Reading this book was an "Experience". There was pure joy for me in this act. What more could anyone ask? [Review to be continued......more