At this point I was almost expecting S. and Sola to just never meet again. Although I guess if you look at them as mirroring Jen and Eric, they'd HAVE to finally meet.

Also, I don't know why I didn't expect Sola to have been on board one of the other ships. She was obviously heavily involved in everything, based on the periodic sightings S. caught and the little bit Maelstrom could tell him about her. But I just hadn't made that assumption. It makes perfect sense, though, why she didn't seem alarmed when he got drugged and taken on board way back at the beginning of the book.

How did all of this start though? How did he originally get involved in everything? I've been wondering this whole time if maybe this was a fight he'd gotten tangentially involved in in his previous life, and made the decision to devote the rest of his life to it knowing the cost was forgetting his entire past (probably for the protection of loved ones). In which case it's too bad he can't at least know that this was in fact his choice. But of course, he would only have someone else's say-so that it was his choice. So what is that actually worth in his current state?

Will this ever get actually resolved? And does it count if the ending was of Filomela's choosing instead of Straka's?

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I got #S. by #DougDorst and #JJAbrams for Christmas, and have been attempting to read it ever since. I'm only on pg 39, and have had to reread already as I try to figure out my "plan of attack" so I actually get what's going on. The main text is a story called #ShipOfTheseus by fictitious author #VMStraka and tells the story of a man with amnesia who gets shanghaied (is that still an acceptable term for it? Probably not. I'm gonna have to look into that later, but if someone else corrects me in the comments before I make an edit, here's a pre-emptive THANK YOU!) and finds himself part of a mysterious crew where he is apparently known as "S".

In the #margins is a conversation between two fictitious college students named Jen and Eric. They've so far never met, but converse via the margins of this book as well as random bits of paper they tuck between the pages. Most of their conversation revolves around solving the mystery of who VM Straka really is, but also some flirting and some comments on their own lives.

I'm having a bit of a hard time keeping both stories straight in my mind, so I think my plan is to read each chapter with the corresponding comments and bits of paper, then going back and rereading the chapter with JUST the text of Ship of Theseus. My brain is currently doing a GRAND job of keeping Eric and Jen's part of the story straight, so it's just the main text I need to revisit

Has anyone in the #bookstodon #fediverse read this book yet? Any tips on how best to proceed? This #book is definitely an amazing experience, it's just a lot to take in at once!

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Effluvium: an unpleasant or harmful odor, secretion, or discharge.

"The tavern is a low brick building on the corner of two streets that must form the nexus of the city's stink, a powerful mixture of dead fish, low tide, and human, canine, and feline effluvia."

#ShipOfTheseus by #VMStraka (#S by #JJAbrams and #DougDorst)

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