Love and Other Thought Experiments: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020
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Love and Other Thought Experiments: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020
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Ward's ingenious fiction debut stands in a tradition of philosophical fiction: Voltaire's Candide , Sartre's Nausea . Each chapter begins with the explanation of a particular thought experiment and then uses that experiment as the foundation of the fiction that follows. She has to be among the nicest, and most generous interviewees, and the online tube blogger Erik Karl Anderson hosts a wonderful interview about this book. These pieces all fit into a single over-arcing narrative, but they’re varied enough that one never knows what to expect next. A fantastic debut and I hope the author continues to blend philosophy and fiction in her future writings.
The experiments are renowned studies of the imagination; the stuff of philosophers and psychologists. Also, however brilliant YA is, there are some things it just can’t tackle because of the constraints of its remit – e. I agree with you, the book is such an interesting concept but the philosophy focused theme throughout was a bit over my head, and I did throughly enjoy the second book with the boy stuck out in the water. Regardless, the ripple of a book's effect on your life can be strong; whether the change is immediate or revealed much later varies from book to book.Eliza wants to believe her partner but, as a scientist, can’t affirm something that doesn’t make sense (“We don’t need to resort to the mystical to describe physical processes,” she says). I did like the majority of it, the different stories, events and characters, up until the last few chapters. My least favourite part of the book and with the exception of Greg’s hypothesis of after death explained to a child (which I thought was a very clever link), the substance of the stories was too much for me to handle (and comprehend).
I think the emotional distance is going to get in the way for a lot of readers who look for personal connections in what they read. This collection of scattered but interconnected short stories across which its various characters interact and intersect in their various paths, seem to all revolve around the same central questions: what is life? It’s by no means a serious, high-minded deep dive (so anyone looking for that might be disappointed).Reach a hollow pocket at the top of her spine and lock my jaws on a sinuous wall as the last of the tide flows past me. Starts off conventionally enough, about a lesbian couple, one of whom keeps insisting that she has an ant in her eye that is too small to see.
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