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And now for something completely different. It's sortuva meta-book. Imagine a young college student named Jen finds a book in the library called Ship of Theseus by the mysterious, yet prolific author V.M. Straka. She sees that there are notes written in the margins and she writes a reply to one of them. Eric, a disgraced grad student, writes back and they continue doing so through multiple readings (and multiple-colored pens) throughout the book. In the margins they discuss the book, themselves, and the mysterious author and equally mysterious tranlator. The story concerns an amnesiac man (called S.) who gets shanghaied onto a strange ship with a very strange crew and sets off on a weird, dangerous journey. The book is stuffed with almost two dozen inserts ranging from postcards, to letters, to copies of telegrams and newspaper articles, etc. Ship of Theseus is made to look like a library book from the 50s. It's very cool. It's also very puzzling, ofttimes confusing, but pulls you in nonetheless. Probably would've taken me a lot longer to plow through it had I not read it while on vacation. And even though I was mystified by much of it, I was captivated by the twin stories and kept reading all the way through. Not all the book's questions are answered. I was glad I read it but would hesitate to blindly recommend it. This book was concieved by J.J. Abrams and written by Doug Dorst.