Jumper by S. Gould: what is in Chapter 17?
Jan Vanek jr.
Gould's _Jumper_, when I noticed a discrepancy: while the page number
was still rather far from the total I had ascertained earlier, the
remaining part of the book seemed suspiciously thin. So I looked
closer and indeed, my copy missed a... I don't know the English
polygraphic term for this, one of smaller, in this case 32-page
booklets made by repeated folding of original large printed sheets,
which are then glued together to make a book. It was the one with
pages 283 to 314 (Tor paperback, 4th printing, if I read the numbers
correctly; but apparently quite recent, as the cost is US$6.99. Seems
quite a long life for a comparatively low-profile book, but I know
next to nothing about these matters). Would somebody be so kind as to
summarize their content for me?
I looked ahead and the story continued just in the middle of the final
showdown with, uh, the head terrorist, the beginning of which would
probably fill some of the missing pages, but there had been already
two false alarms before the gap and Gould probably wouldn't want to
tire the readers with many more of them; I am afraid I might be losing
some important scene with Millie, or whatever. Also, the last chapter
heading before the gap is 16 and he first one afterwards is 19, so
there is whole Chapter 17 missing, not only those two interrupted
mid-way.
And an unrelated question: especially for those who own the hardback,
what titles of books on the cover art have you been able to make out?
(Myself: Moscow 2042, Success - Martin [Amis, I guess], Tom Wol[fe,
apparently] plus some I forgot and several where I can read, or
almost, the letters, but they don't coalesce into anything meaningful
- what would be Carpenter Gothic?). Perhaps getting a magnifying glass
would be enough.
Thanks,
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Jan Vanek jr.
Joel Baxter
> I was awake until three o'clock this Saturday night, devouring Steven
> Gould's _Jumper_, when I noticed a discrepancy: while the page number
> was still rather far from the total I had ascertained earlier, the
> remaining part of the book seemed suspiciously thin. So I looked
> closer and indeed, my copy missed a... I don't know the English
> polygraphic term for this, one of smaller, in this case 32-page
> booklets made by repeated folding of original large printed sheets,
> which are then glued together to make a book. It was the one with
> pages 283 to 314 (Tor paperback, 4th printing, if I read the numbers
> correctly; but apparently quite recent, as the cost is US$6.99. Seems
> quite a long life for a comparatively low-profile book, but I know
> next to nothing about these matters). Would somebody be so kind as to
> summarize their content for me?
Sure.
Spoilers ahoy, of course, for anyone who hasn't read _Jumper_.
(Although hopefully the title of this thread has been clear enough about
that.)
Page 283 concludes chapter 16. Davy finishes disposing of the body
(becoming fairly nauseated), seeds the pond with fish and crawdads to
finish the job, puts the pieces of the body in a tub on the taxiway in
Cyprus, briefly thinks "Who picked up Mom's body?", and goes home to Millie.
Chapter 17 begins "There was a great deal of debate over the video
footage that showed me appearing on the 727's wing," and talks about the
news coverage a bit. Davy revisits Stanville and has another run-in
with Sue Kimmel, who is now in AA, and they talk about Davy's dad. Davy
calls his dad and tells him to get into rehab; they argue of course.
Davy then calls the feds to demand to be left alone; Brian Cox offers
him employment and makes vague threats.
Davy misses out on a hijacking, some people get killed, he gets
depressed and talks to Millie. At the next hijacking (in Athens) he
again sees the Reuters guy (from Algiers), gets some info from him, and
takes his card; he foils the hijacking, comes back to meet the Reuters
guy, and gives him a demonstration/proof by jumping him to Cairo.
Davy and Millie go to Hawaii, the feds kidnap Millie, and they shoot
Davy with a tranq dart attached to a tracking device, before he jumps
out, but the dart misses (snags in his clothing). Davy tells Millie's
lawyer brother-in-law that the feds have got her. Davy fashions a
cylindrical shield and jumps to Perston-Smythe's office, fights off the
fed agents and abducts P-S, quizzes him about Cox and Millie, then dumps
him in Ankara. Davy goes on a rampage dumping fed agents at various
spots around the world, and has phone arguments with Cox. He arranges a
meeting with Cox and snatches him, depositing him on the little island
in the pit in Texas.
Chapter 18 begins "Cox awoke to find the chemical toilet beside him and
a sign that said, DON'T POLLUTE THE POND, IT'S YOUR DRINKING WATER."
Davy gets news of a cruise ship hijacking and sees Matar's photo. He
contacts the Reuters guy and they take a helicopter out to observe the
ship while the reporter fills him in on what's been happening. The
terrorists start shooting at them and Davy jumps to the ship while the
helicopter flees. Davy starts exploring the ship and examining where
the terrorists are positioned, and that's where your copy of the book
resumes, if our pages are numbered the same.
Lawrence Watt-Evans
wrote:
> I don't know the English
>polygraphic term for this, one of smaller, in this case 32-page
>booklets made by repeated folding of original large printed sheets,
>which are then glued together to make a book.
A signature.
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Marilee J. Layman
wrote:
>I was awake until three o'clock this Saturday night, devouring Steven
>Gould's _Jumper_, when I noticed a discrepancy: while the page number
>was still rather far from the total I had ascertained earlier, the
>remaining part of the book seemed suspiciously thin. So I looked
>closer and indeed, my copy missed a... I don't know the English
>polygraphic term for this, one of smaller, in this case 32-page
>booklets made by repeated folding of original large printed sheets,
>which are then glued together to make a book.
Signature
It was the one with
>pages 283 to 314 (Tor paperback, 4th printing, if I read the numbers
>correctly; but apparently quite recent, as the cost is US$6.99. Seems
>quite a long life for a comparatively low-profile book, but I know
>next to nothing about these matters). Would somebody be so kind as to
>summarize their content for me?
Tor would normally replace this for you -- why not email them & ask?
I know you've been given a synopsis, but actually reading it is beter.
--
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Jan Vanek jr.
> On 3 Feb 2003 07:01:42 -0800, jan.va...@seznam.cz (Jan Vanek jr.)
> wrote:
>
> > [...] my copy missed a
>
> Signature
>
> > with pages 283 to 314 [...] Would somebody be so kind as to
> >summarize their content for me?
>
> Tor would normally replace this for you -- why not email them & ask?
Because I bought it in a second-hand bookshop in a regional capital of
a small, backwoods, godforsaken, freshly president-less :-)
Central-European country for rather less than the postage would be,
even if I were eligible for the replace.
Thanks a lot to Joel Baxter.
--
Jan Vanek jr.
Robert Carnegie
Marilee J. Layman <mjla...@erols.com> writes
Or take it back to the store. They've probably got copies that are
okay.
I haven't read _Jumpers_ - whoops, that's wrong - but people here
speak very well of it. I think it was quite successful. I hope the
synopsis was satisfactory.
When I got a book with a bad signature once (jumped to near the
end of the story, they put some of the last pages in near the front
instead of the ones that should be there), I spent about six
months after that checking all page numbers in any book I bought,
for myself or most particularly as a gift. And, on reflection, that's a
good reason to keep a store receipt for book gifts, even if you don't
expect the choice of book to be unsatisfactory (and I don't
suppose many stores would take a book back because the
reader didn't like it, or owned a copy already - caveat emptor).
I think I mentioned before that it was Roger Zelazny's _Today We
Choose Faces_ in my case, which made it hard to tell at first
exactly what had gone wrong with the story. But the "this doesn't
make sense" index suddenly shot up several points from the
Zelazny median while the guy was parachuting(?) in to the secret
base ;-)
Robert Carnegie at home, rja.ca...@excite.com at large
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mazboot
thirties and found myself enjoying it a great deal. As near as I could
figure, it seemed to appeal to the latent 'young adult' in me. My question
is: Was this book intended as -or at least largely received as- a 'young
adult' science fiction story? It seems to have all the earmarks of such.
From there, are Gould's other books of the same vein (I mean, intended for
younger readers)?
David Dyer-Bennet
I have the impression it was largeley received as such. I reacted to
it that way (and also enjoyed it considerably).
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Ron Clinton
busy writing the sequel to JUMPER...so hopefully, if the publishing
climate is friendly enough, we'll be seeing that soon. Sure hope
so...the first chapter he teased me with was *great*!
Joel Baxter
_Wildside_ is very similar in tone, and I liked it for much the same
reasons that I liked _Jumper_.
_Helm_ is a little different... seems less like a "young adult" book in
its themes and its style of writing. The protagonist is still a young
guy who grows up, learns stuff, takes responsibility, and kicks ass :-),
but that is of course not the sole province of YA writing.
Marilee J. Layman
I didn't like Helm as much, but I'm not that interested in martial
arts so I spent a lot of time skimming things.
Brian Henderson
<rja.ca...@excite.com> wrote:
>I haven't read _Jumpers_ - whoops, that's wrong - but people here
>speak very well of it. I think it was quite successful. I hope the
>synopsis was satisfactory.
Actually, it was a very, very good book that I had forgotten. Last I
spote to Mr. Gould, he said he was working on another book, I should
go look that up.
Brian Henderson
wrote:
It was written for young adults, yes, but like Harry Potter, appeals
to people of all ages. I think Gould was rather surprised by that, as
he seemed shocked when I told him I liked it and I was in my 30s.
Peter Meilinger
>mazboot wrote:
>> On a related note about this book, I read it years ago while in my early
>> thirties and found myself enjoying it a great deal. As near as I could
>> figure, it seemed to appeal to the latent 'young adult' in me. My question
>> is: Was this book intended as -or at least largely received as- a 'young
>> adult' science fiction story? It seems to have all the earmarks of such.
>> From there, are Gould's other books of the same vein (I mean, intended for
>> younger readers)?
I believe it's been re-issued lately and specifically targeted at
young adult readers. At least, the local sci-fi/fantasy bookstore
has it shelved in the YA area, and the picture on the cover is
definitely very similar to the covers of other YA books.
>_Wildside_ is very similar in tone, and I liked it for much the same
>reasons that I liked _Jumper_.
I liked Wildside even better. And yes, I'd say both have a lot
of appeal to young adults. If only because the protagonists ARE
young adults, to whom all sorts of weird things happen.
>_Helm_ is a little different... seems less like a "young adult" book in
>its themes and its style of writing. The protagonist is still a young
>guy who grows up, learns stuff, takes responsibility, and kicks ass :-),
>but that is of course not the sole province of YA writing.
I haven't read Helm yet, though I own it. For some reason, I always
put it down after picking it up and considering it. It just doesn't
seem as interesting to me as Jumper and Wildside. That's probably
because I really enjoy stories where impossible things happen to
people in the real world, whereas Helm is "just" a normal science
fiction story.
Pete
James Nicoll
Peter Meilinger <mell...@bu.edu> wrote:
>
>I haven't read Helm yet, though I own it. For some reason, I always
>put it down after picking it up and considering it. It just doesn't
>seem as interesting to me as Jumper and Wildside. That's probably
>because I really enjoy stories where impossible things happen to
>people in the real world, whereas Helm is "just" a normal science
>fiction story.
_Helm_ has some serious problems in world-building. For
example, does it make sense that post-Big Whoopsie the survivers
huddling on the Moon would send all that terraforming gear to
the stars when Mars is so close and most of the refugees are
not going to the stars? Does it make sense that after someone
uses the Instant Supercaldara Device on Earth that the -Moon-
would suffer moonquakes? Why, exactly? And it's certainly
interesting that the planet around Tau Ceti (I think) is so
close to being Earthlike that a mere century will do to terraform it.
But _Helm_ is _Romeo and Juliet_ compared to _Greenwar_'s _Titus
Andronicus_. I can't believe I had a choice of De Camp bio or _Greenwar_
and I picked _Greenwar_.
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Steven Gould
> to people of all ages. I think Gould was rather surprised by that, as
> he seemed shocked when I told him I liked it and I was in my 30s.
I don't normally read newsgroups but a buddy pointed me at this
thread. Hope I don't stop things dead by replying.
I was sorry to hear about the missing signature. What a pain.
As to what age group I was writing to in JUMPER and WILDSIDE: I very
much had in mind the Heinlein YA's like SPACE CADET, RED PLANET,
FAMRER IN THE SKY, BETWEEN PLANETS, THE ROLLING STONES, STARMAN JONES,
and TUNNEL IN THE SKY. These are books that are still readable by
adults =and= teens and this was my goal from the beginning. Even the
original cover had this in mind. Davy is faded on the cover and it is
deliberately difficult to determine his age.
JUMPER =and= WILDSIDE both owe a lot to TUNNEL IN THE SKY, if you
think about it.
If Brian thought I sounded surprised in my response to his email, it
wasn't because of his age. I've gotten fanmail from readers aged 10
through 65 on JUMPER so I have some idea of its appeal. However, I am
always genuinely pleased (and surprised) when I get fanmail on a book
I wrote over twelve years ago, so it may be this surprise he detected.
(Thanks again, Brian, for the kind words.)
WILDSIDE is also being released in a new format (as JUMPER was)
because there is a special size for books that the chains shelve in
their YA section. It seems to have worked quite well for JUMPER--the
numbers on the new edition were quite respectable.
I find it odd that the same book is a dollar less in the new format.
I guess you pay the extra dollar for the Mass Market edition so that
you don't look like your reading a "kid" book. It's a "coolness" tax.
The long requested and overdue sequel, JUMPER(S), is almost done. I'm
on manuscript page 392 today and closing on the end. It's been eleven
years since JUMPER came out and that's the span of time that has
passed for Davy and Millie, too. JUMPER(S) definitely takes place in
a post 9/11 world and, as the title implies, there is more than one,
now.
Warm regards,
Steve
Richard Horton
wrote:
>The long requested and overdue sequel, JUMPER(S), is almost done. I'm
>on manuscript page 392 today and closing on the end. It's been eleven
>years since JUMPER came out and that's the span of time that has
>passed for Davy and Millie, too. JUMPER(S) definitely takes place in
>a post 9/11 world and, as the title implies, there is more than one,
>now.
Hmmm. I certainly read the book -- I liked _Jumper_ quite a lot. But
I really don't like the title.
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Robert Carnegie
, Steven Gould <s...@digitalnoir.com> writes
>The long requested and overdue sequel, JUMPER(S), is almost done.
>I'm
>on manuscript page 392 today and closing on the end. It's been eleven
>years since JUMPER came out and that's the span of time that has
>passed for Davy and Millie, too. JUMPER(S) definitely takes place in
>a post 9/11 world and, as the title implies, there is more than one,
>now.
>
>Warm regards,
>
>Steve
Sequel almost done? You can be sure that that's going to make a
lot of people here real happy. I'd better get around to reading the
first book. Everyone's telling me to.
Er...I presume that's more than one Jumper and not more than
one world, although SF of course could include the latter. Roger
Zelazny produced another fine YA story, _A Dark Traveling_ with
one or more letter Ls, where you could get to a parallel world
either by mechanical teleportation, or by walking through a sort of
magic fog if you had the knack.
Which reminds me of something, which I'll start a new thread for.
Brian Henderson
wrote:
>If Brian thought I sounded surprised in my response to his email, it
>wasn't because of his age. I've gotten fanmail from readers aged 10
>through 65 on JUMPER so I have some idea of its appeal. However, I am
>always genuinely pleased (and surprised) when I get fanmail on a book
>I wrote over twelve years ago, so it may be this surprise he detected.
> (Thanks again, Brian, for the kind words.)
No problem. I just wanted you to know how much I enjoyed your work.
Since this thread started, I've gone back and found my copy of Jumper
and am also going to look for some of your more recent books as well.
I was surprised that you had written quite a few that I had missed.
>I find it odd that the same book is a dollar less in the new format.
>I guess you pay the extra dollar for the Mass Market edition so that
>you don't look like your reading a "kid" book. It's a "coolness" tax.
Far too many people worry about how they look. A good book is a good
book, it doesn't matter who puts it out or what shelf it sits on. I
don't really understand people who argue that because a book is good,
it simply cannot be intended for or marketed for non-adults.
>The long requested and overdue sequel, JUMPER(S), is almost done. I'm
>on manuscript page 392 today and closing on the end. It's been eleven
>years since JUMPER came out and that's the span of time that has
>passed for Davy and Millie, too. JUMPER(S) definitely takes place in
>a post 9/11 world and, as the title implies, there is more than one,
>now.
I just added it to my list of things to get in my PDA. :) Do you have
a rough idea/wild guess when we might see it on the shelves?
Kate Nepveu
I don't know about intended; it does seem to have been received that
way, and was recently reprinted in a YA imprint.
I believe many of his later books are have some of the YA appeal,
except for _Blind Waves_.
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Kate Nepveu
>The long requested and overdue sequel, JUMPER(S), is almost done. I'm
>on manuscript page 392 today and closing on the end. It's been eleven
>years since JUMPER came out and that's the span of time that has
>passed for Davy and Millie, too. JUMPER(S) definitely takes place in
>a post 9/11 world and, as the title implies, there is more than one,
>now.
I look forward to reading it, though as Rich said, I also quite
dislike the title. If I could be so bold, what's the reasoning for not
just a simple plural?
John F. Eldredge
Hash: SHA1
On 3 Feb 2003 07:01:42 -0800, jan.va...@seznam.cz (Jan Vanek jr.)
wrote:
>And an unrelated question: especially for those who own the
>hardback, what titles of books on the cover art have you been able
>to make out? (Myself: Moscow 2042, Success - Martin [Amis, I guess],
>Tom Wol[fe,
>apparently] plus some I forgot and several where I can read, or
>almost, the letters, but they don't coalesce into anything
>meaningful - what would be Carpenter Gothic?). Perhaps getting a
>magnifying glass would be enough.
Carpenter Gothic is the common term for a style of residential
architecture that was popular in the USA in the late 19th century.
The houses tended to be decorated on the outside with fancy cut-out
wooden shapes, railings made with lots of multiply-curved spindles,
and the like. Such decorative woodwork is sometimes called
"gingerbread". The "Gothic" part of the name is because the houses
tended to have steeply pointed roofs, and sometimes Gothic-styled
windows. The book in question would probably have a discussion of
the style, and lots of pictures, and would be aimed at laypeople, not
architects. A good example of the style can be seen at
http://architecture.about.com/library/weekly/aa061200b.htm.
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Nix
> If Brian thought I sounded surprised in my response to his email, it
> wasn't because of his age. I've gotten fanmail from readers aged 10
> through 65 on JUMPER so I have some idea of its appeal. However, I am
> always genuinely pleased (and surprised) when I get fanmail on a book
> I wrote over twelve years ago, so it may be this surprise he detected.
Have another one. I read _Jumper_ last year, and, well, it reminded me
of _Citizen of the Galaxy_ for some reason; since that's a Heinlein
juvenile, I guess your attempt at producing a new one succeeded :)
--
2003-02-01: the day the STS died.
Steven Gould
> s...@digitalnoir.com (Steven Gould) wrote:
> I look forward to reading it, though as Rich said, I also quite
> dislike the title. If I could be so bold, what's the reasoning for not
> just a simple plural?
Hmmm. Mostly I think, because it becomes too easy to confuse it with
the original. I really am willing to take suggestions for a
completely different title if anyone has an idea.
David E. Siegel
> Brian Henderson <ceph...@aol.com> wrote in message
> > It was written for young adults, yes, but like Harry Potter, appeals
> > to people of all ages. I think Gould was rather surprised by that, as
> > he seemed shocked when I told him I liked it and I was in my 30s.
>
> I don't normally read newsgroups but a buddy pointed me at this
> thread. Hope I don't stop things dead by replying.
>
> I was sorry to hear about the missing signature. What a pain.
>
> As to what age group I was writing to in JUMPER and WILDSIDE: I very
> much had in mind the Heinlein YA's like SPACE CADET, RED PLANET,
> FAMRER IN THE SKY, BETWEEN PLANETS, THE ROLLING STONES, STARMAN JONES,
> and TUNNEL IN THE SKY. These are books that are still readable by
> adults =and= teens and this was my goal from the beginning. Even the
> original cover had this in mind. Davy is faded on the cover and it is
> deliberately difficult to determine his age.
>
> JUMPER =and= WILDSIDE both owe a lot to TUNNEL IN THE SKY, if you
> think about it.
>
Yes, and in a lesser degree to teh other RAH Juvies. Which is intended
as praise. I enjoyed both _Jumper_ and _Wildside_ -- infact I
reread wildside just the other day. I als very much enjoyed Helm. I
liked _Blind Waves_, but a bit less, and _Greenwar_ yet a bit less,
but it was still a positive for me.
> If Brian thought I sounded surprised in my response to his email, it
> wasn't because of his age. I've gotten fanmail from readers aged 10
> through 65 on JUMPER so I have some idea of its appeal. However, I am
> always genuinely pleased (and surprised) when I get fanmail on a book
> I wrote over twelve years ago, so it may be this surprise he detected.
> (Thanks again, Brian, for the kind words.)
>
> WILDSIDE is also being released in a new format (as JUMPER was)
> because there is a special size for books that the chains shelve in
> their YA section. It seems to have worked quite well for JUMPER--the
> numbers on the new edition were quite respectable.
>
Glad to hear it.
> I find it odd that the same book is a dollar less in the new format.
> I guess you pay the extra dollar for the Mass Market edition so that
> you don't look like your reading a "kid" book. It's a "coolness" tax.
For me the mass-market size fints nicely in a pants pocket, so it
might be a convenience tax, but I suspect it is really a
small-print-run effect
>
> The long requested and overdue sequel, JUMPER(S), is almost done. I'm
> on manuscript page 392 today and closing on the end. It's been eleven
> years since JUMPER came out and that's the span of time that has
> passed for Davy and Millie, too. JUMPER(S) definitely takes place in
> a post 9/11 world and, as the title implies, there is more than one,
> now.
>
I shall certianly look for, and almost certianly purchase, it. In HC
if need be.
> Warm regards,
>
> Steve
Thanks for writing.
By the way, i first picked up Jumper because your name was so close to
that of the late Stephan J Gould, and I wondered if he was gettign
into fiction. Mind you, I was clear on what it was before I ever took
it to the register, but that is what got it off the shelf and into my
hands. Since then i have picked up every book with your name on it I
have seen.
-DES
Kate Nepveu
>Kate Nepveu <kne...@steelypips.org> wrote in message news:<a3h84v4di3nudngfq...@news.earthlink.net>...
>> s...@digitalnoir.com (Steven Gould) wrote:
[_Jumper(s)_]
>> I look forward to reading it, though as Rich said, I also quite
>> dislike the title. If I could be so bold, what's the reasoning for not
>> just a simple plural?
>Hmmm. Mostly I think, because it becomes too easy to confuse it with
>the original. I really am willing to take suggestions for a
>completely different title if anyone has an idea.
Well, it would be easier to generate ideas if we had the text. =>
Seriously, I'd just hate for it to get lumped in with those Wit'ch
books as "titles with weird and unnecessary punctuation" in readers'
minds. Coming up with titles out of thin air is hardly my strong
point, though.
Robert Carnegie
>> s...@digitalnoir.com (Steven Gould) wrote:
[Forthcoming sequel, _JUMPER(S)_]
>> I look forward to reading it, though as Rich said, I also quite
>> dislike the title. If I could be so bold, what's the reasoning for not
>> just a simple plural?
>
>Hmmm. Mostly I think, because it becomes too easy to confuse it with
>the original.
If I may say, when one asks for it in a store, it is /still/ easy to
confuse it with number one. How do you pronounce "JUMPER(S)"
orally to be distinct from "JUMPERS" and clearly distinct from
"JUMPER"?
>I really am willing to take suggestions for a
>completely different title if anyone has an idea.
Jumper II
Jumper II: The Revenge
Jumper II: Jumpers Go To Paris
One Or More Than One Jumpers, The Author Wishes To Leave
The Question Open Until The Purchaser Starts Reading The
Book, And Their Further Adventures
Harry Potter And In British It Means A Sweater
Or you could make this one "High Jump" and the next "Triple
Jump".
Robert Carnegie at home, rja.ca...@excite.com at large
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Peter Meilinger
>If I may say, when one asks for it in a store, it is /still/ easy to
>confuse it with number one. How do you pronounce "JUMPER(S)"
>orally to be distinct from "JUMPERS" and clearly distinct from
>"JUMPER"?
This is true.
>>I really am willing to take suggestions for a
>>completely different title if anyone has an idea.
>Jumper II
>Jumper II: The Revenge
>Jumper II: Jumpers Go To Paris
Jumper II: Teleport Boogaloo
I swear, by all I hold holy, that I'll buy at least a dozen
copies if you use that title.
Pete