I might not have done research on the American novelist. While I consider myself an avid reader, I have to come forward and divulge that I had no clue who Doug Dorst was. So it shouldn’t come off as a surprise that book binding fanatic Abrams created S. Paired with Doug Dorst who wrote the splendid The Surf Guru: Stories, the team came up with the perfect book for every bibliophile. Once more, you have to watch the TED talk. He further talked about Lost, and how he learned very early in his career that you should never (ever) hurt Tom Cruise’s nose. In the eighteen minute talk, he mentioned his love for his late granddad, his obsession with odd little crafts like letterpress and magic, and where his fascination with mystery came from. His opening line was genius I’m not going to spoil it, so you really have to watch it.

I enjoyed it so much that I ran it on the Blu-Ray player just to show my dad why J.J.

I came across the five year old video sometime around November, so I think seven is a pretty big deal. is their love letter to the written word. Introducing S by Doug Dorst and JJ Abrams (seriously, is there anything he can’t do?), S. Relish the good times! You owe it to yourself. When you’re finished with it, reserve a special spot in your dusty bookshelf, place the book there and brag about it. Be gentle when you’re flipping the pages and perusing through the postcards and letters. 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.It wouldn’t be the same if you read this book on your eReader you wouldn’t be able to immerse yourself in it. 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. A world of mystery, menace, and desire.Ī young woman picks up a book left behind by a stranger.

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