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Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

David Eagleman

Hardcover | Pages: 110 pages

Rating: 4.14 | 14326 Users | 1969 Reviews

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Original Title:	Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
ISBN:	0307377342 (ISBN13: 9780307377340)
Edition Language:	English

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At once funny, wistful and unsettling, Sum is a dazzling exploration of unexpected afterlives—each presented as a vignette that offers a stunning lens through which to see ourselves in the here and now. In one afterlife, you may find that God is the size of a microbe and unaware of your existence. In another version, you work as a background character in other people’s dreams. Or you may find that God is a married couple, or that the universe is running backward, or that you are forced to live out your afterlife with annoying versions of who you could have been. With a probing imagination and deep understanding of the human condition, acclaimed neuroscientist David Eagleman offers wonderfully imagined tales that shine a brilliant light on the here and now.

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Title	:	Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
Author	:	David Eagleman
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 110 pages
Published	:	February 10th 2009 by Pantheon
Categories	:	Short Stories. Fiction. Philosophy. Fantasy. Religion. Adult. Death

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Ratings: 4.14 From 14326 Users | 1969 Reviews

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All 40 stories in this book are about afterlife. These are not your typical stories. They do not have a plot, characters, or even a clear clear beginning or an end. These are more like meditations on life. They contemplate on what afterlife may be like. The stories are highly creative, original and witty, and they rarely fail to amuse you(or make you smile).The theme of the book is "afterlife". This may mislead you that this book has a religious or holy side, or it is a spiritual book. However,

Interesting that on a reread and many years after first reading this, I have lowered my rating! Its a quick read and thought provoking but I found the stories a little hit and miss. They were snippets of ideas. I wonder if my reading taste has changed- I used to be much more engaged with ideas of life after death, so its weird that as I get older and presumably closer to finding out the truth for myself, Im less interested!

Such a quaint little read! I didn't know what to expect when going into this book but I was pleasantly surprised. Eagleman takes the reader to mystical and dark places as he contemplates what the afterlife may hold. From a heaven where Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein) is Queen to an afterlife where you act as the extras in living peoples dreams - this book is a real look into an incredible imagination. Although each tale is only a couple of pages long I was fully transported to each ghostly

My favourite video game of all time is a homemade 2D platformer on the little-known Yarozea black, programmable Playstationcalled Time Slip . In this game you are a snail with a one-minute lifespan who has to use his time on screen to stand on buttons that open doors to other parts of the level. Once the minute is up, the snail is reincarnated as another snail at the beginning of the level, or at the latest checkpoint. The ghost of your previous snail remains on the map, reliving its movements

probably 3.5 actually. A fascinating book of short tales about possible afterlives, including one where all possible versions of you exist (quantum physics I think), another where God is so small he works on a microbal (?) level, and is simply unaware of us, a bi-product of bacteria. Or where the afterlife conforms to capitalist principles and for a reasoable price you can download your version of heaven. Or When you arrive in the afterlife, you find that Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley sits on a

Pure delight to those who love speculations and out-of-the-world stories. Pun intended.

5★Everyone is a brother to all, and for the first time an idea has been realized that never came to fruition on Earth: true equality. The Communists are baffled and irritated, because they have finally achieved their perfect society, but only by the help of a God in whom they dont want to believe. The meritocrats are abashed that theyre stuck for eternity in an incentiveless system with a bunch of pinkos. The conservatives have no penniless to disparage; the liberals have no downtrodden to