Recursion [18th June 2019]

[Angela, I'm Silverfox lost]

Buddy read 18th June.

[Aristotle]

Stepping off a cliff into a black hole. What a ride!
Another nose bleed!

[RuinEleint]

In

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Yup... looking forward to this... not sure if Soo will pop in or not... she's been quiet since February/March...

[RuinEleint]

After Dark Matter, I am basically up for anything by Black Crouch.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Same... altho I thought the Letty Dobesh stuff was just OK... probably because they were mostly old short stories that were cannibalized into a TV series...

[Latasha]

i may join in if no one minds and if i can get it by the 25th.

[Petrik]

In for this one. I have it in my kindle already!

[Petrik]

Bloody hell, I'm so sorry. I finished it already. This book was insane, so unputdownable that I forgot to comment about it here! xD

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

How dare you... it happens...

[Petrik]

Timelord Iain wrote: "How dare you... it happens..."

It's crazy.. you'll understand when you reached 20% in the book! :D

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Petrik wrote: "Timelord Iain wrote: "How dare you... it happens..."

It's crazy.. you'll understand when you reached 20% in the book! :D"

I looked through your shelves, and read your review of Every Heart a Doorway... you should try Middlegame when you get a chance... it's Seanan McGuire's newest standalone book (with a possible followup in the future, which makes sense within the story)... it has a lot of elements of Seanan McGuire books, and is actually probably her longest book, I think, at 528 pages... just finished it in 2 work shifts... saved it for when I could pay attention... gonna need to pallette cleanse before I start recursion, because I think there will be some similarities in the story... I didn't realize there would be a time aspect to the story from the blurb... saying anything more is probably too much of a spoiler... like Dark Matter, it's best to go in blind, I think...

I'll start this tomorrow, probably...

[Tammie]

I started this yesterday. So far it's pretty good, but it didn't grab my attention as much as Dark Matter did.

[Petrik]

Tammie wrote: "I started this yesterday. So far it's pretty good, but it didn't grab my attention as much as Dark Matter did."

Oh really? I thought the first 25% was the only relatively slow part! The rest after that was non-stop insane ride xD

[Tammie]

Petrik wrote: "Tammie wrote: "I started this yesterday. So far it's pretty good, but it didn't grab my attention as much as Dark Matter did."

Oh really? I thought the first 25% was the only relatively slow part!..."

Well I'm still in the first 25%.

[RuinEleint]

Starting

[RuinEleint]

22% in.

So far so ominous.

[RuinEleint]

Yeah so I finished

Wow.

I agree with Petrik, you cross the first quarter and there's no looking back. What a book.

(view spoiler)[ I physically cringed at the thought of the number of deaths and repeated lives Helena had to endure.

I can't even fathom the level of disorientation when FMS hits.

This book shook me. (hide spoiler)]

[RuinEleint]

Also I see Middlegame was referenced earlier.

Read that. I loved it.

[Petrik]

@Arkadeb

It's amazing isn't it? I couldn't put it down at all after the first quarter. It was so damn good and thrilling.

(view spoiler)[I feel so bad for Helena! :(
It was beyond insane what she and Barry went through!!! :(
Not gonna lie, I almost shed a tear when Barry returns to the original timeline and told Julia that they're just not meant to be. I don't know, it just felt like, after going through hundred years of pain, seeing people's death by nuclear and mass suicides, and finally he can tell her that. And that ending! Killing Slade and then asking Helena out! Arghhh so good! (hide spoiler)]

[RuinEleint]

Petrik wrote: "@Arkadeb

It's amazing isn't it? I couldn't put it down at all after the first quarter. It was so damn good and thrilling.

I feel so bad for Helena! :(
..."

Yes! (view spoiler)[ The last part of the book was heartbreaking to read because you could see the toll on Helena, repeating the same thing, always under the shadow of doom.

And when it was done, and he went to the bar, he felt so vulnerable, because, he had given up everything, and if this did not work, and there was no guarantee that it would, he would be truly alone. I got really emotional at that scene (hide spoiler)]

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

I know I'm still in the "slow part", but I love what the book's doing already, because it just did one of my favorite things, which is to feed off of real world data...

I've heard of the Berenstein/Berenstain Bears phenomena before... i read about it a year or 3 ago... less familiar with the Mandela Effect...

I did a google search and had to cut myself off... that is a rabbithole I could go down for days... Jif vs Jiffy peanut butter... chem trails in the sky in this dimesion, etc etc etc...

There's a reason the Final Destination movie with the photographs is my favorite... it posited that 9/11 and the Lincoln Assassination were Final Destination events...

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Chapter 7/8: Is this the point when the book takes it up a notch?... I have a feeling it is...

I had my suspicions, so I doublechecked Audible, and they used the same male narrator for both Recursion and Dark Matter... I wonder if this was a conscious choice, because of the similarities in subject matter... or just a preferred narrator of the publishers...

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

So I finished this over the weekend. then work/life got crazy... all I've done since then is work and sleep, with small wind down and wind-up times before and after work...

They really condense this book into 2 very long chapters towards the end, and the rest are relatively short jumping between POVs... but then when the really long chapter happen, they jump between POVs sometimes, as well... I think one of the chapters was half a page...

I compared this to Middlegame before I started... this turned out to be kinda true and kinda false... there ARE some similar elements, but they're completely different books, between subject matter, timescale, on-page violence... the endings are kinda similar tho... I guess I should have expected that, given the ending of Dark Matter, but I was a bit concerned when the Epilogue started...

Early on, I had a lot to say about Marcus Slade... but things kept happening that shifted the focus of the book a bit...

I really liked it, obviously... 5 stars for me...

[Tammie]

I finished this but I didn't like it quite as much as the rest of you. It was a good book, but I still like Dark Matter better. (view spoiler)[ There were a lot of heartbreaking things that happened and that was what made it good. For some reason I don't get super invested in Blake Crouch's characters, but I can always root for them and sympathize with them anyway. I did feel like it was too repetitive, even though I knew it would be going in. I also got frustrated with the characters for not figuring out the solution sooner. It was kind of obvious. (hide spoiler)]