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Feb 14, 2025 06:16AM
Fran and I are reading The Mechanics of Memory. It’s on the newest Edgar Award List and seems to fit the science tag. All are free to join in!
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Thanks Nancy! I'm moving faster than I expected with my current audiobook so I may join and start this one this weekend.
I’m about 15% of the way through. When the book starts, the MC is in a loving relationship with a nice man, and has a great relationship with his teenage daughter. Then, jump to one year later, she is a “guest” in a luxurious facility with celebrity patients. She cannot remember the last year of her life, and the doctors use traditional therapy and high tech methods to help her. Another patient is a tech CEO who is there because he attacked a friend, he cannot remember a thing about it. The book has science fiction tags, and there is room called “VICTOR.” I’m starting to get creepy vibes about the doctors and the facility. (view spoiler)
The chapter titles are intriguing.
Jen K wrote: "Thanks Nancy! I'm moving faster than I expected with my current audiobook so I may join and start this one this weekend."Great!
I'm 12% in. I'm at the point that I'm trying to figure out what is happening.
I’m enjoying the story, but I’m only reading a bit at a time. The memory manipulation book written by a character sounds like it would be pretty interesting, but so far they haven’t shown how it can be used for good (e.g. on ptsd patients ) Some of it is very consistent with scientific research articles I read decades ago when taking a cognitive psychology memory course. Unethical interrogators used the verbal techniques to plant false memories in suspects.
What I can’t buy is (view spoiler)
NancyJ wrote: "I’m enjoying the story, but I’m only reading a bit at a time. The memory manipulation book written by a character sounds like it would be pretty interesting, but so far they haven’t shown how it..."
I am moving very slowly in this, as I am reading another book as well. This one hasn't really put a hook in me yet.
It took a while to really understand what was happening, but memory is a topic that will always catch my attention. Once it all clicked, I couldn’t put it down. In the meantime I enjoyed getting to know the characters in the hospital. I really liked Hope, Quinn, Spookie (Spencer), and Carter. Like most thrillers imo, we have to suspend disbelief, and there were several twists. I was hoping for one, and was annoyed by another. Overall I enjoyed the story. I hope you end up liking it too.
I'm about 37% in and have so many theories. I like the crew at the center, the patients. I'm not really sure how this will all play out. I am enjoying but also not completely hooked yet as it is a bit of a struggle to keep it all straight in my head.
I need to wrap up my other book and then I will make up for lost time with this.I always fall for books with memory issues- amnesia, Alzheimer's and other causes, but I frequently am not fond of the solution.
I hope this pleases me more.
Finished this last night. Really got sucked into the last third of the book. Some twists I guessed and others were a surprise. Overall not my usual but I did enjoy.
I'm close to the half-way point. It is not only a mystery but a real puzzler.I'm trying to see the total picture.
I'm at over 80%. It is quite exciting right now.
I've finished it and really quite enjoyed it. It was quite exciting in the end.
I’m glad you liked it too! I like mysteries that don’t follow the predictable detective formula, even though, like this one, they might be harder to get into.
