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Contact by Carl Sagan
5.0

"For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love." Sob. Sob. Literal sobbing.
Carl Sagan is and has been my one significant inspiration, not because I do anything as important as he did, (or because I possibly could- I couldn't) but because I've never felt more alive and in awe as I do when I read his works. Doesn't matter if it is fiction or non-fiction. Actually just watching Cosmos is a fascinating experience in every way.
I so strongly connected to this book I cried intermittently through the last 50-75 pages, and sobbed through the last few. I finished the final page and I, absentmindedly, carried the book around with me until I realized what I was doing.
Spectacular. What a beautiful world he left for us in his passing, but what a devastating loss we should feel now that he's not here to share it with us.
5 stars. 5 billion, actually. No, billions and billions.