So I have just started to read a book. I just wanted to find a good pass time while I get all my stuff together for classes and all the christmas shopping and decorations, but then I bought this book. I was still under the impression that it was just a pass time when I purchased it, and then again when I arrived home. It was only in the train, where I decided a pass time was needed that I started reading the 'so-called' pass time. Then of course, I could not stop.
The End of Mr. Y
by Scarlett Thomas
Having just started this book I can't tell you my deepest and most developed thoughts about this particular story but I can tell you that it is a rare moment indeed when I get pulled into a story after a few chapters in, and it is even rarer when the book is neither Science Fiction/Fantasy or Romance. This particular little gem has a whole other world of meaning behind it and the metaphysical stuff that is thrown out here and there is just so much to wrap your mind around you can't help but delve into the world the writer has created for us.
We follow the story of our main character Ariel who is studying for her PhD and developing her studies on certain scientific ideas and especially the ideas and writings of Lumas. The interesting thing about Lumas is that his last book, 'The End of Mr. Y' is one of the rarest books of all time (only one copy is for sure in a safe in Germany) is rare for one very good reason. Everyone who reads this book, dies. Her teacher, supervising her PhD, disappears soon after he loses interest in Lumas or tries to make her lose interest in it. We find ourselves with her in a second-hand book store asking, out of pure habit, about Lumas only to discover one of the rare copies of the book.
Will she read it? Does she believe in the curse? And will it affect her?
What about the torn page in the last few chapters of the book?
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