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by Doug Dorst, J.J. Abrams
First i must say that I like the book, it's appearance (I actually love the appearance, I am buying books mostly because they look good in the library- I read usually e-books as they are easier to travel with or store but sometimes it is hard to beat physical book and this one is the case) and it's content, but I have just one minor complain. If you write book and want to use another language you don't actually speak yourself, just do your research properly. The czech language used here is terrible, maybe somebody pointed it out earlier but it looks like direct google translation. Frankly, it kind of spoiled my reading experience a little bit. Because this book is wannabe genuine library book with 'real' articles and postcards and notes in it but it doesn't look like 'real' deal (the best fake 'real' you can make) because of those poor translations. But overall I am satisfied with the mystery it presents. I am casual reader and appreciate fun and relaxing books and this one is indeed more than your ordinary fiction. I can't even count how many layers it has, but I am not finished with all of them and I am eager to find out more. There is the 'main' book but the real story presented through marginals is, at least for me, the most intriguing one, not just because it is actually a main storyline but because we know so litle about the two of them and their lives, and that creates endless possibilities for my imagination about who they are, what they do when they're not reading the book or where they are when they are writing marginals, the whole backstory (I am not already finished with the book so maybe there is more to their backstory).