The Jacket (The Star-Rover)
Jack London
Jan 2021 · Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
4.8star
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311
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The story is told in the first person by a convict of San Quentin Prison (professor of agricultural science Standing Darrell) who had been sentenced to death penalty. For a long time Darrell had been in an individual cell where he had been tortured by so called “jacket”, a canvas cloth in which the whole body can be tightly laced, inducing angina.
Looking for a method to mitigate the torture, Standing tries “the short death” (a kind of trance state) about which he found out from another prisoner while communicating by tapping. As a result, he travels among the stars and then experiences a lot of episodes of his past lives. The main part of the book contains the descriptions of the journeys to his old lives.
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4.8
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Christian Ford
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May 19, 2023
Challenging, yet a great read. Confronts you with topics that most seem to be uneasy speaking about. I would recommend to anyone looking for a book to really dig into your mind, I've had the wildest dreams after reading a chapter if this before bed due to the mind space you go to. 10 out of 10
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