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So much about The Five Lost Days appeals to my adventurous side. Taking place in Belize, a small Latin American country I long to see, it focuses on Michael Burns, a documentary film director who takes his crew to the jungles to film a “curandero”. Curanderos are a sort of Mayan medicine man, close to extinction. Their focus on herbs and medicinal plants only heightened my fascination with the book.
Kelly, an American who lives in the jungle with distant pot-smoking rebel husband Frank, works for an American pharmaceutical company. She was sent to Belize ten years previous to study the healing plants; in her love for the jungle and a deep affection for the elderly curandero, she stays on much longer than she’d originally intended.
As Burns soon finds out, the five days he’s scheduled to film are considered in Mayan tradition to be The Five Lost Days – an evil time Mayans of the old ways see fit to stay home and wait out in fear But the show must go on… if Burns can help it.
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sounds like a great read and i’m an avid reader
As an herbalist and a travel bug, I’d love to read this one! Sounds like it’s right up my adventurous alley as well. Thanks!
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I’ve studied alot of Native American Shamanism. This book is right up my alley of interest. Five Lost Days that are frightening to the natives…I might heed the warnings instead of plunging forward. That last sentiment in itself is enough to want to read this book. Thanks for the opportunity! Indigo
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sounds cool, like the ruins.
I love to read and this book sound gread
This book looks great
It sounds interesting and different from my recent readings.
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This sounds very interesting.
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Sounds like an interesting book. Something I haven’t read about yet.
This sounds really interesting. I would like to read this. Please enter me.
I love healing plants too and the jungle must be beautiful. I want to read this book to see what happens during that time when others who know better stay away from the jungle. I want to find out…what evil lurks there.
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I’d love to win this book. I’m fascinated by the Mayans and I don’t really know anything about Belize. So I get to learn about the country and some culture from the Mayans. I’d really enjoy this one.
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I love learning about the medicinal uses of herbs. To combine this with a novel is great!
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I am very interested in the shamanic practices of other cultures and have read of Curanderos before!
I would like to read this because I would love to have a chance to live in the wild.
When I worked at a book store, I had a customer who
lived in Belize. She told me how beautiful it was,
that there were lots of pyramids & that most of the
archealogical things had not been looted or noticed
by outsiders. She made it sound as if it were a place
I would like to visit. That’s not something I would
ever be able to finance, so a book placed in Belieze
would be an interesting read for me.
I would very much like to read Five Lost Days, as it intrigues me and makes me make to learn all I can about Belize and the Curanderos. I have always found Mayan history to be interesting.
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I have always been interested in ancient cultures and herbology, so I would love a chance to read this book.
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this sounds like the perfect book for our book club. i’m always interested in ancient cultures
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I love that the book is about herbs and another culture. It reminds me of the movie “Medicine Man with Sean Connory which is a favorite at our house.
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sounds interesting, i’ve always been interested in precolumbian civilizations
this sounds like a fabulous adventure – think we have much to learn from the Mayans
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It sounds similiar to the movie “The Medicine Man”. Sounds like an awesome book…I would love to read it and find out the rest of the storyline. Thanks for the chance to enter.
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I would love to read this, it sounds fascinating and a fun read..thanks for the fab contest.
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I would like to read this.
sounds interesting to read- and I love reading but get bored with the same stories over and over- this looks different
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sounds like it could get scary and I like scary books
I am a armchair adventurer. I love experiencing others fun and wild times vicariously and because of this I shall live to observe another day! I have always loved sociology and archeaology as long as its from the comfort of my own home, lol.