I Am the Messenger (edit title)

Timothy Gray approved Halie’s request to combine 2 books, including I Am the Messenger, 14 hours ago.

Halie submitted a request to combine 2 books, including I Am the Messenger, 2 days ago.

Kelsey R edited the quotations of I Am the Messenger 12 days ago.

• Added a quotation: “I'm not the messenger at all. I'm the message.”Ed Kennedy
• Added a quotation: “Believe it or not - it takes a lot of love to hate you like this.”Ma
• Added a quotation: “Marv, you will kiss this dog. And when you kiss him, you're going to like it.”Ritchie

Kelsey R edited the characters of I Am the Messenger 12 days ago.

• Added the description of Marv: One of Ed's friends who saves all his money and likes to smoke cigars.
• marked the description of Marv as not a spoiler
• Added the description of Ma: Ed's mother who doesn't really like him all that much.
• marked the description of Ma as not a spoiler
• Added the description of The Gunman: The one who held up the bank in the first chapter. Turns out he was involved in the aces plot.
• Added the spoiler-free description of The Gunman: The man who held up the bank.
• marked the description of The Gunman as a spoiler
• Added the description of Simon: Audrey's taxi-driving boyfriend.
• marked the description of Simon as not a spoiler

Kelsey R edited the summary of I Am the Messenger 12 days ago.

• Ed Kennedy was a nobody whose life changed when he received an ace in the mail. The ace has three addresses and times and obviously he is supposed to go to these places. Ed first wonders who's sending them then debates on whether he should go to addresses at all. He convinces himself to go. At the first address, he witnesses something terrible that happens every night. He knows he's supposed to stop it, but he is a scrawny cab-driver, what can he do. He decides to move on to the next address. There he succeeds. The events that go down there touch his heart, it was a beautiful moment. He moves on to the third address and he succeeds there too. He witnesses the beauty and determination of a young runner and helps her out. With only one address left, he receives a gun in his mailbox. After a drugged drink and attempted murder, he succeeds with the final address.
  He receives the aces one by one, each one leading to different locations and different situations. Between addresses and aces, Ed hangs out with his friends, Marv, Ritchie, and Audrey, playing cards and talking. He drinks coffee with his dog and argues with his Ma. His brother and two sisters have left the town and are living good lives, while Ed is hopelessly driving his cab around. His Ma doesn't like Ed very much. Ed is in love with Audrey, but Audrey won't let it happen and Marv and Ritchie aren't making much of their lives either. The guys participate in the Annual Sledge game, which is a game of drunken barefoot soccer that lots of people show up to. At the games, he receives the 3rd ace. Daryl and Keith are the two guys that delivered the 2nd ace. The 4th ace he gets at the cinema after watching a creepy video of himself carrying out the deeds on the aces.
  The fourth ace leads him to his three best friends. He helps Ritchie start to make something of his life. Marv gets to see his long-lost girlfriend and their baby that he'd never seen before. Audrey lets herself love Ed, if only for three minutes. After he completes his tasks, he receives the joker in his mailbox, with his own address on it. He gets to meet the one who's been orchestrating all what Ed has been through. If someone hopeless like Ed can change 12 peoples lives, then why can't everyone else. That was what it was all about. In the end, Ed is a better person, and he gets the girl.

Kelsey R edited the ridiculously simplified synopsis of I Am the Messenger 12 days ago.

• Added: 19 year old nobody, Ed, changes his life and others' with the arrival of an ace in the mail.

Kelsey R edited the characters of I Am the Messenger 2 weeks ago.

• Added the description of The Doorman: Ed's smelly, coffee-drinking dog that Ed loves.
• marked the description of The Doorman as not a spoiler
• Added the description of Audrey: One of Ed's best friends, he's in love with her.
• marked the description of Audrey as not a spoiler
• Added the description of Ritchie: Ed's friend who's actual name is Dave Sanchez. He is called Ritchie because the tattoo of Jimi Hendrix that actually looks more like Richard Pryor.
• marked the description of Ritchie as not a spoiler

eissme edited the quotations of I Am the Messenger Friday, November 13 2009.

• Added a quotation: “My first memory is of being four years old and getting a piggyback from Gregor Kennedy, my father. That was when the world wasn't so big and I could see everywhere. It was when my father was a hero and not a human.”Ed Kennedy

Amanda edited the books like this book of I Am the Messenger Friday, October 9 2009.

• Added The Butcher Boy
• Added How I Live Now

Amanda edited the books like this book of I Am the Messenger Friday, October 9 2009.

• Added You & You & You