Personal Effects

I was honestly a little wary of Personal Effects when we first started with it, as I've always kind of liked traditional books more. However, once we began to read it I found that I couldn't put the book down. Since the author uses first person, the narrator's knowledge of the subject at hand is fairly limited, and we know only what he does. By giving us the materials at the narrator's disposal as well as any information we could find on our own through the internet and phone calls. I really enjoyed the aspect of the book that allowed us to explore a totally different world by giving us websites to places that don't really exist (like Brinkvale Psychiatric) yet appear to be legitimate websites. I also thought the implementation of "official records" and government issued ID cards was clever as well, and gave a kind of validity to the story which, with its mentions of "the Dark Man" would have seemed rather less realistic without.