Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman
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Book Reviews of Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
Book Review: Nothing like it! Brilliant!
Summary: 5 Stars
It's a book you'll read over and over again throughout your lifetime! Eagleman is brilliant and leaves you deep in thought after each chapter. A must-buy book!Book Review: Outstanding
Summary: 5 Stars
I buy many things from Amazon and only rate a few... This little book is fascinating, thought provoking and incredibly unique. I highly recommend it.Book Review: Fun and Thought Provoking
Summary: 5 Stars
Just a fun read that will keep you thinking well into the night and next day discussing with friends!Book Review: Sum: 40 Tales from the Afterlives
Summary: 5 Stars
Loved this book so much that I bought another 10 copies to give as Christmas presents this year!Book Review: Imagine the moment when your name is spoken for the last time...
Summary: 4 Stars
- can you? I cannot, no matter how hard I try. And this is the main reason why I love this little book: its thought experiments keep resonating in my mind weeks after I've read it.
This is what a book should be like: original, inventive, wise and thought-provoking. Even though some tales are very brief (being less than 2 pages long) they are sketched powerfully gripping. The ideas and concepts Eagleman comes up with are brilliant and profound, and after many chapters I felt the urge to close the book and pause to let them sink in. Very often, just when I had marveled at the originality of a scenario, it was the final section or even sentence that hit me as the real thought provoker.
Some scenarios create a truly otherworldly experience, visualizing our planet's very insignificance within the gargantuan cosmos as we know it. They made me think. Others draw their appeal from reflecting our earthly human nature and everyday-life traps. They made me smile.
Why I don't give 5 stars? Because even with 35 instead of 40 tales Eagleman wouldn't have diminished his chance to spend his afterlife in heaven.