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4.05 AVERAGE
4.05 AVERAGE
challenging
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
Strong character development:
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adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
inspiring
lighthearted
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
dark
funny
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
What fun. Like Einstein's Dreams, I feel I read this too fast, and need to spend some time contemlating all the different afterlives. I'm going to review this later, but right now, my two favorite afterlives are the one in which you get to change one thing about your life and relive it, and the one in which the atoms that make up your body go their own way after you die, and then eventually decide to come back together to make you again.
This is going straight to my top 10 fav. books.
40 absolutely mind-boggling possibilities of "life after death" that make us value "life before death"
Must read, highly recommended.
40 absolutely mind-boggling possibilities of "life after death" that make us value "life before death"
Must read, highly recommended.
adventurous
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Forty short stories about afterlives of various kinds. Most of the stories are only a handful of pages long, most have some kind of sting in the tail, and most of them are thought provoking. More than once I was left stunned, needing to sit and think about what I had just read before proceeding to the next story.
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
N/A
Really wanted more imagination from this, a lot of it felt like things you've probably thought of before and weirdly situated in a Western Christian headspace
"Humans have discovered that they cannot stop Death, but at least they can spit in his drink" - if that's not that epitomy of the younger generations, i don't know what is. This book is deeply phylosophical but also entertaining and silly at the same time. The end of the second chapter blew my mind. This is the second book that i've read this year that, casually or not, mentions the possiblity of humanity destroying itself. The death switch was eerly realistc, creepy, and not far from giving someone an actual future idea.
4.5 stars. A very interesting and intelligent little short story collection.