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Post by Jenny on Mar 8, 2017 12:29:54 GMT -5
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Post by drodri123 on May 31, 2017 19:26:09 GMT -5
Thank you for this post Jenny. Up until now, people still think the clues lead you to the starting point of the journey - not the end. This takes a weight off my mind and gives me new hope of finding the treasure!
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toppop
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Post by toppop on May 31, 2017 22:28:03 GMT -5
That can be taken two ways. The clues DO take you to the starting point. Those clues tell you the city the treasure IS IN. The paces, steps, lead you to the end.
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Post by aksarben on May 31, 2017 22:34:51 GMT -5
Ask it he'll narrow it down to any state east of the Mississippi River. Obviously its an eastern city
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Post by drodri123 on May 31, 2017 23:09:28 GMT -5
When I say "start of the journey" what I mean is that some people think the clues will lead them to the location of Lane's apartment and they are trying to calculate miles driven, directions taken, and possible highways to get to the final location in the story because they are following the characters on their journey instead of following them from their last stop.
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Post by astree on Jun 1, 2017 5:43:21 GMT -5
Pete has been fairly cagey when he talks about whether it is in a city or not, in most of the interviews. In the interview Jenny highlights, he says "go to the city and follow what the people in the book do."
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Post by zaphod73491 on Jun 1, 2017 13:06:42 GMT -5
In more than one interview, Pete has said that there are ~15 (or 14 or 16) different clues to a city in the first 3/4 of the book, and that once you figure it out you replicate what the characters in the story do. But he has been less explicit about whether that city is the starting point of the Winnie the Beast drive from the city where Nelson lives, or perhaps the final parking spot of the Butterscotch Clipper and the beginning of the walking directions. I think it's the former -- after all, there is no evidence that the final park in the book is even in or near a city. And why mention all the places that the group visits over their several-day journey if you don't have to figure them all out?
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Post by TxTH on Jun 1, 2017 21:29:08 GMT -5
Ask it he'll narrow it down to any state east of the Mississippi River. Obviously its an eastern city That's interesting. Why do you say that it is obviously an eastern city? It would be great if we could eliminate everything west of the Mississippi River but I am not so sure about that at this point.
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Post by drodri123 on Jun 1, 2017 23:08:39 GMT -5
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpMS8Jvtmf8at 2:18 Pete explains that the first 3/4 of the book has about 15 hints as to where the treasure is. That doesnt mean there are no hints in the last 1/4, only that the first 3/4 has about 15 clues. You then take the book to the city you think its in and do what they do in the book meaning you follow their paces. It doesnt mean you hop in your car and follow their entire road trip. Why would Pete make the reader potentially fly to the real life treasure's location only to rent a car and drive away from the treasure by following the vague pretend road trip found in the book!?
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Post by zaphod73491 on Jun 2, 2017 15:36:13 GMT -5
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpMS8Jvtmf8at 2:18 Pete explains that the first 3/4 of the book has about 15 hints as to where the treasure is. That doesnt mean there are no hints in the last 1/4, only that the first 3/4 has about 15 clues. You then take the book to the city you think its in and do what they do in the book meaning you follow their paces. It doesnt mean you hop in your car and follow their entire road trip. Why would Pete make the reader potentially fly to the real life treasure's location only to rent a car and drive away from the treasure by following the vague pretend road trip found in the book!? I agree that Pete's claims about clues to the city being in the first 3/4 of the book don't preclude there also being clues to that city in the final quarter of the book, but it does beg the question of why mention 3/4 at all if there are additional clues in that final 1/4? He could have just said there are over a dozen clues to the city in the book. Period. Instead, he specifies a portion of the book. However, the fact that he does specify the 3/4-point lends support to the idea that you aren't supposed to drive the characters' complete route to the treasure location. By the middle of page 146 (the 3/4 point), they are only 55 miles from the treasure, so most of the driving has already happened. They are parked on page 150, which is certainly close enough to 3/4 of the way through the book to be a match. So Pete's reason for bring up "the first 3/4 of the book" may not be a city-clue dividing line so much as it is a marker for where to begin following in the characters' footsteps.
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Post by drodri123 on Jun 2, 2017 22:10:43 GMT -5
I agree
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