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| Selected Product: | Sum: Tales from the Afterlives Paperback Author: David Eagleman Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd Release Date: April 2010 ISBN-10: 1847674283 ISBN-13: 9781847674289 List Price: £7.99 Average Customer Rating: | | | To use our price comparison to get the cheapest price, please click on the "Find the Cheapest Price" button located above for Sum: Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman (ISBN-10: 1847674283, ISBN-13: 9781847674289). At this time we have not yet written a review for Sum: Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman (ISBN-10: 1847674283, ISBN-13: 9781847674289). Please continue to keep checking back to this page as we are constantly adding reviews. Summaries and Customer Reviews are supplied by Amazon.com Sum: Tales from the Afterlife This is a funny thoughtful book. What an imagination the author has. Also for a busy person the 'tales' are short and pithy so one can be read over coffee and enjoyed for hours afterwards. I didn't realise this beforehand so it is a bonus. As usual swift efficient delivery almost straight after ordering. Absolutely no complaints Interesting book for group discussion Very interesting book. Each scenario is quite short, lending themselves to use in other contexts such as book groups, assemblies etc. Interesting Runs out of steam a bit and the tales get a little bit repetative. Still, it was cheap and kept me off the streets for a while. Cogito, ergo... What this book isn't: it isn't a genuine contemplation of our non-physical progress beyond the grave. The afterlife concept is a framework to muse on the human condition, in a collection of short pieces. Some fall into the category of "count your blessings" by imagining some of the ways a reordering our current existence could be so much worse. Some are philosophical musings reminiscent of the best sciFi. It's only a couple of hours' worth of entertainment but thoroughly recommended. (Not sure if "Sum" is supposed to mean "total" or "I am" - or both.) Don't believe the hype! Having been fished in by the ridiculously fantastic reviews, I purchased this item. I managed to make my way through about 5 of the 'insights' before giving up all together. I normally persevere with a book however irritating but wow, what a pile of pants. There are only two other books I have found as annoying and self indulgent as this. The first being American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis and the other being How Late it Was, How Late by James Kelman. A severe case of the emperors new clothes here. Avoid.
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