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Recursion

Written by: Blake Crouch
Narrated by: Jon Lindstrom, Abby Craden
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Publisher's Summary

A breathtaking exploration of memory and what it means to be human, Recursion is the follow-up novel to the smash-hit thriller Dark Matter, by Blake Crouch. 

What if someone could rewrite your entire life?

'My son has been erased.' 

Those are the last words the woman tells Barry Sutton before she leaps from the Manhattan rooftop. Deeply unnerved, Barry begins to investigate her death, only to learn that this wasn’t an isolated case. All across the country, people are waking up to lives different than the ones they fell asleep to. Are they suffering from False Memory Syndrome, a mysterious, new disease that afflicts people with vivid memories of a life they never lived? Or is something far more sinister behind the fracturing of reality all around him?

Miles away, neuroscientist Helena Smith is developing a technology that allows us to preserve our most intense memories and relive them. If she succeeds, anyone will be able to re-experience a first kiss, the birth of a child, the final moment with a dying parent.

Barry’s search for the truth leads him on an impossible, astonishing journey as he discovers that Helena’s work has yielded a terrifying gift - the ability not just to preserve memories but to remake them...at the risk of destroying what it means to be human.

©2019 Blake Crouch (P)2019 Penguin Random House LLC

Critic Reviews

"Recursion takes mind-twisting premises and embeds them in a deeply emotional story about time and loss and grief and most of all, the glory of the human heart." (Gregg Hurwitz, international best-selling author of Orphan X)

"A fantastic read." (Andy Weir, number one New York Times best-selling author of The Martian)

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To many life times

loved it? it was totally crazy and absolutely mind blowing. if you feel confused in the middle then you're reading it right.. the end is worth it.

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Great concept limited by voice actors & love story

The concept is great. But rather than extract all the mindbending goodness of that, it gets lost in a sci fi love story.

What made this a slightly irritating listen were a few tics of the voice actors:
The male reader had a lovely rich voice, but also that strong midwestern habit of dropping his 'G' everywhere, sounding like "They were waiteen and watcheen for the ringeen of the phone" etc that kept me stumbling. (That's not an actual quote from the book)

The female reader was perhaps attempting vocal fry, but not achieving it. Every descriptive sentence ended in a lower tone - which made it sound to me like she was always on the verge of tears. Almost unlistenable, once I noticed it.

I've just realised why I like British voice actors - even with regional variations, they tend to sound neutral.

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mind boggling

another wonderful book by Blake crouch. takes you across timelines into a loop of memories..... grasping n kept me on the end of my seat throughout!

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Brilliantly Temporal

“Memory is everything” an absolutely immersive piece of writing that has honestly left an indelible mark. Wow! The performance from both the narrators really brings out the best of the characters. One of those books from which you don’t know where to go to, what to pick next which will be equally good in its scale, story line, twists and turns and finally the denouement so satisfying and filling. Highly recommend to the fans of sci fi and thriller genre.

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Perfect Closures

I love the story for being a perfect balance of fiction and science the only line between the both of plausibility which is perfectly put together by the author. I wish to have a sequel of Dark Matters though.

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Thrilling Recoursion of Nerve gripping experience

From start to end, the story and the story telling never fails to amaze! Waiting for this book to be be made into a killer TV series like GOT.

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mind-blowing

absolutely loved the story. worth the time and must read everyone. Narration was just okay.

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Engaging story.

I read this book immediately after completing three body problem series of Liu Cixin. I realise now that most of science fiction will not be able to match the scope and depth of that series and some comparison in inevitable. Still, this is a really engaging and interesting premise. Blake Crouch is great at introducing deeply drawn charactors in his books like he did in dark matter. Worth a read.

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Excellent. mind Bending

This is exactly what I expected from a Blake Crouch book. not as good as dark matter but still brilliant

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Beautiful Love Story

Keeping the scientific accuracy aside, it is an interesting story of two people trying to put the genie back in the bottle.

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