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S.
Issued in slipcase.
Title and statement of responsibility from spine of slipcase.
Edition and production statements from colophon, back pastedown of volume.
Volume title: Ship of Theseus / by V.M. Straka. 1st ed. New York : Winged Shoes Press, 1949.
Consists of a "found" book, a novel titled Ship of Theseus, with library markings and marginal notations by two fictional readers, Jennifer and Eric, reacting to the text and to each other.
Volume also includes 22 inserted items purporting to be documents relating to the supposed author, V.M. Straka, and his translator, F.X. Caldeira, and such items as postcards, notes, written sheets, and a code wheel relating to the fictional readers.
Marginalia printed in various colors.
Cover illustration.
Title and statement of responsibility from spine of slipcase.
Edition and production statements from colophon, back pastedown of volume.
Volume title: Ship of Theseus / by V.M. Straka. 1st ed. New York : Winged Shoes Press, 1949.
Consists of a "found" book, a novel titled Ship of Theseus, with library markings and marginal notations by two fictional readers, Jennifer and Eric, reacting to the text and to each other.
Volume also includes 22 inserted items purporting to be documents relating to the supposed author, V.M. Straka, and his translator, F.X. Caldeira, and such items as postcards, notes, written sheets, and a code wheel relating to the fictional readers.
Marginalia printed in various colors.
Cover illustration.
Pages: 456
ISBN: 9780316201643
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Read Letter D.
Feb 8, 2026
There was no way this wasn't going to be a 5 star book for me. It's definitely not a book for everyone, but it was for me. The whole experience of reading it was worth 5 stars, almost regardless of the content. Though the content was excellent too.
I was amazed at how much we were able to get from Eric and Jen just from (sort of) dialog between them. I liked (and I bet some people didn't like) that not everything was on the page. there were times they met up when things clearly happened but we dont get to know any specifics, and we just have to be ok with that.
Though, I would 100% read a novelization of their actions during the time they were working on their Straka project.
Its definitely a book where you get out what you put in, you can read it straight through (which I dont recommend) or read it in passes with each color note. You can play along in searching for clues and decoding the footnotes and text or you can let Jen and Eric tell you what they found.
I do wish that some of the coding/mystery could have been a little simpler as I would have liked to sleuth more myself, but when I did get to where answers were given I knew there was no way I could have gotten there on my own, but I don't even try to guess the end of thrillers so, that shouldn't have really surprised me.
I'll still liekly spend a few days on the S. websites digging deeper. And i will never let this book out of my collection. If you were a LOSTie, this book is for you. If you watch that show and think (wrongly) 'this is boring and obtuse, and WTF are the writers on about' this book isn't' for you. If you don't know what LOST is, go watch it first.
I was amazed at how much we were able to get from Eric and Jen just from (sort of) dialog between them. I liked (and I bet some people didn't like) that not everything was on the page. there were times they met up when things clearly happened but we dont get to know any specifics, and we just have to be ok with that.
Though, I would 100% read a novelization of their actions during the time they were working on their Straka project.
Its definitely a book where you get out what you put in, you can read it straight through (which I dont recommend) or read it in passes with each color note. You can play along in searching for clues and decoding the footnotes and text or you can let Jen and Eric tell you what they found.
I do wish that some of the coding/mystery could have been a little simpler as I would have liked to sleuth more myself, but when I did get to where answers were given I knew there was no way I could have gotten there on my own, but I don't even try to guess the end of thrillers so, that shouldn't have really surprised me.
I'll still liekly spend a few days on the S. websites digging deeper. And i will never let this book out of my collection. If you were a LOSTie, this book is for you. If you watch that show and think (wrongly) 'this is boring and obtuse, and WTF are the writers on about' this book isn't' for you. If you don't know what LOST is, go watch it first.