false 1162022 8 My father took one hundred and thirty two minutes to die. ‘I counted. ‘It happened on the Jellicoe Road. The prettiest road I’d ever seen, where trees made breezy canopies like a tunnel to Shangri-La. We were going to the ocean, hundreds of kilometres away, because I wanted to see the ocean and my father said that it was about time the four of us made that journey. I remember asking, “What’s the difference between a trip and a journey?” and my father said, “Narnie, my love, when we get there, you’ll understand,” and that was the last thing he ever said. ‘We heard her almost straight away. In the other car, wedged into ours so deep that you couldn’t tell where one began and the other ended. She told us her name was Tate and then she squeezed through the glass and the steel and climbed over her own dead – just to be with Webb and me; to give us her hand so we could clutch it with all our might. And then a kid called Fitz came riding by on a stolen bike and saved our lives. ‘Someone asked us later, “Didn’t you wonder why no one came across you sooner?” ‘Did I wonder? ‘When you see your parents zipped up in black body bags on the Jellicoe Road like they’re some kind of garbage, don’t you know? ‘Wonder dies.’ 6479100 book 2006 On The Jellicoe Road total:1179|5:554|4:363|3:197|2:34|1:31| 1179 4912 2141 496 5 10 false false Sat Jan 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 18:29:36 -0800 2009 Thu Jul 09 10:35:07 -0700 2009
I had no idea what was going on for the first, oh, 150 pages? When I hit page 100 and I still wasn't into it, I thought about how some people have a ...more...]]> 4 8 false false Wed Jan 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 10:22:39 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 10:26:06 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 5 false false Wed Jan 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 16 18:19:54 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 21 21:03:00 -0800 2009
I'll admit, it took me awhile to get into it, partially because I was so confused. But as I started to figure thi...more...]]> 5 7 false false Mon Jan 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 07:00:04 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 22:31:14 -0800 2009 bawling. Give this book the Printz. Please.]]> 2 6 false false Mon Jan 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 18:05:49 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 07:44:17 -0800 2009
I felt like the writing was very, very confusing. For the first...more...]]> 4 4 false false Wed Nov 19 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 19 11:57:16 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 26 09:02:02 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 4 false false Mon Apr 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 08 17:47:02 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 27 12:06:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 4 false false Wed Jan 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jul 30 13:57:32 -0700 2008 Wed Jan 14 13:49:24 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 2 false false Wed Mar 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 08:49:11 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 06 12:08:53 -0800 2009
i think perhaps i expected too much of this book, thanks to the reviews and my friends, but i actually didn't think the book was THAT slow started. that said, i realized something was going on very early - and so i started treating it like a mystery and ...more...]]> 5 3 false false Wed Feb 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 17:43:11 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 19 12:45:37 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 6 false false Fri Feb 13 17:24:43 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 13 18:00:33 -0800 2009
I will also preface this review by saying that you shouldn't decide whether you belong in group A or group B before you get to page 125 or so. The first 125 pages are a confusing, emotional slo...more...]]> 5 2 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Nov 28 11:08:43 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 28 11:09:35 -0800 2008
My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die. I counted. It happened on the Jellicoe Road. The prettiest road I'd ever seen, where trees made breezy canopies like a tunnel to Shangri-la. We were going to the ocean, hundreds of miles away, because I wanted to see ...more...]]> 3 3 false false Fri Mar 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 20 17:55:26 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 15:28:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 2 false false Fri Feb 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 08:18:20 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 06 10:17:42 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Apr 09 07:23:46 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 16:52:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Jan 29 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 12:52:46 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 06:46:31 -0800 2009
taylor ha...more...]]> 5 3 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu Feb 21 02:07:49 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 21 02:14:09 -0800 2008
I worked in a...more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 14:40:42 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 22:55:18 -0700 2009 One that starts out a little on the confusing side. There are so many things going on in this book it was hard to keep them straight. There is Taylor Markham, abandoned by her mother when she was 11, her father has never been around and she d...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Jun 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 04 18:20:14 -0700 2008 Sun Jan 18 20:20:19 -0800 2009 3 blog review.

This is one of those books that 1) you should go into not knowing much of anything, 2) that will probably leave you very confused for the first 100 pages or so, but 3) is ultimately one you’ll end up loving, or at the very least appreciating the clevern...more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Feb 05 06:01:09 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 06:05:37 -0800 2009
This book I actually struggled to stay with for the first hundred, maybe a bit more pages. I didn't understand what all the fus...more...]]>