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lwdt · Kilroy Joined: 28 Jun 2007 Posts: 1

Hello, the Amazing Tom here.

Although I have absolutely no idea what's going on, I felt I might as well point out that I'll be in Bath at the weekend, and thus able to visit Waterstone's.

I'd assume it'd be another "Dupine" book?

**Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:15 am

myf

Greetings, Amazing Tom! Thank you so much for your help thus far Very Happy

If you don't mind giving up some of your time and sanity to check out the Bath shop, that would be great. I guess it's more of the same, as to my knowledge, we haven't been told anything that suggests otherwise.

**Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:22 am

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Gupfee

Add me to the list of extremely jealous people not in the UK right now. Smile

Just a few quick thoughts I've had that I want to get down in case they are important.

Remember how Jurisfiction travels around the Book World--thru the Great Library. The Great Library books are the penultimate versions and if they are changed, then all the books are changed. It looks like the fffake Ffforde (I love typing that) may be stealing/changing books from the Great Library.

It sounds from the description that the "groom" that Amy saw that first day might be Thursday's teenage son, Friday.

Also, in addition to echidna's excellent suggestions, I would look for Alice in Wonderland in the ettiquette or grammar sections, since the Wonderland creatures are always correcting her on those subjects.

**Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:56 am

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Andh · Boot Joined: 21 Jun 2007 Posts: 14 Location: Belgium

Hi, I'm sort of following this (even though I don't know Fforde and don't live in the UK)
I entered the scribbling contest out of curiosity and the starter line I got is apparently a line from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the finisher line is from Dickens's Great Expectations (I googled them). I don't know if anyone else has noticed something similar.
Anyway, this game has definitely made me interested in Fforde's books

**Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:14 am

Jaybird

Whahoooo!

**Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:20 am

Sarah B

Right, I've got Cheltenham and Birmingham covered at the weekend. Two days in bookshops sounds like fun to me!

Where was Gulliver found?

**Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2007 12:31 pm

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Canzonett · Unfettered Joined: 28 Jun 2007 Posts: 489 Location: Munich

**Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2007 2:08 pm

bellymonster · Boot Joined: 16 Feb 2007 Posts: 41 Location: York, UK

My starter is apparently from "Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" and my finisher from "Picture of Dorian Gray"

**Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2007 2:12 pm

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Canzonett · Unfettered Joined: 28 Jun 2007 Posts: 489 Location: Munich

Same as mine, bellymonster? I've just discovered that my finisher line is from "Dorian Gray" as well.

He might be trying to remap the Bookworld completely!

**Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2007 2:15 pm

myf

I truly am rubbish at this. I've been over to Wokingham library, and stared at their books for an hour and a half, but didn't find any more of our ones. I did hope that it would be Three Men In A Boat nestling in the local history section (as we're not far from the Thames) but no. Nowt that I could see Sad

Tomorrow afternoon, I will be looking slightly shifty in Waterstone's in Reading if anyone would care to join me? Over the weekend I think I can do Fareham on Saturday and High Wycombe on Sunday afternoon unless anyone else has a burning desire to do them.

**Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2007 2:23 pm

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echidna

My starter is from Dorian Gray and my finisher is from The Man Who Was Thursday. It looks like he's trying to make a patchwork classic from bits and pieces of all the others. The question is why?

I'm going to check out Nottingham Waterstones tomorrow should anyone like to join me. Fingers crossed I find something.

**Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2007 4:28 pm

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Mikeyj

I'm nowhere near any of the books - but I think I can convince my brother to have a look in Leeds - he doesn't need many excuses to visit bookshops and he's already been forcefully initiated into ARGs running round the muddy Big Weekend field lol. Will get onto him tomorrow Smile

**Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2007 4:55 pm

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ammonite · Boot Joined: 28 Apr 2005 Posts: 49

More stuff in the Poe book!

**Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2007 3:56 am

myf

Oh! So that's only the second book known to have more than one page of text - the other being Wind In The Willows, which had that faint/smudgy page. Hmm......... were pages missed in the other books we've found, or did this page appear after the book was originally located?

EDIT - I've created a Flickr group, so everyone can put all their photos for this thing in one place to make them easier to find: http://www.flickr.com/groups/book-hunt/

Feel free to join it and add any relevant pictures Very Happy

**Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2007 4:55 am

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Jaybird

I forgot to mention, actually, Gullivers had a page with random lines on! I'll post it when flickr stops hating me. I assume they were just lines from the book, but i've never read it myself.

**Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2007 5:48 am