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Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman

2.0

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This was good for, oh, the first 20 minutes. A few clever, thoughtful, and funny vignettes. I am attracted to the idea of an afterlife where one lives one's own life backwards. And to the one where one spends time with one's alternative selves, the one that finished graduate school, the one that didn't quit that job, etc. But the concept -- nice at first -- grew old quickly.