the_grimm_reader 's review for:

Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters by Brian Klaas

5.0

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It had been years since a book engaged my mind in the way that Fluke did. It is not a long read coming in at 264 pages, but it took me much longer to finish than most. Page after page, it was completely thought provoking. I found myself stopping more frequently to contemplate what I’d read, and to consider how these ideas could be seen in my own life, on through the unending chain of of ancestors, causes, and effects that make up my (and our) present reality. Fluke is a book I wish I had read as a younger man, as I do feel it provides a healthy message of accepting things as they are without adding a narrative. I am learning that raw acceptance of things as they is the door to a quite beautiful sense of awe and wonder at the mystery. This is certainly a book that I will continue to think on for many years to come, and I find the ideas presented to be quite reasonably adoptable. I would encourage anyone interested in social science, chaos theory, history, genetics, evolution, religion, war, or quantum physics to ad this to their reading list.