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Jonathan Katz
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Cleave the Sparrow
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This book is way too intelligently written for my feeble mind to comprehend in any type of coherent fashion. But I enjoyed it anyway and the philosophical and scientific discussions were very well presented and the dialogue i" Read more of this review » |
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"“Hitchhikers Guide to the galaxy” meets “Jacob’s Ladder”
The main character details their descent into an existential crisis, while dealing with death cults, nuclear Armageddon, and the importance of choice." |
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"The most insane books of read
This felt like reading the most unhinged Phillip K Dick story married to a Kurt Vonnegut satire. If you want an extremely weird absurd roller-coaster where you have no idea what direction this is going read this book. " Read more of this review » |
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“Odd, don’t you think, that everyone always talks about killing baby Hitler, but no one ever talks about going back to comfort him, help him through art school, and so forth. It’s always kiss kiss bang bang with time travelers.”
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“There’s a first mover problem in theology and metaphysics”
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| Sensational! Dastardly creative lunacy from cover to cover! Not to be missed, unless you're wearing a nice shirt and drinking a hot beverage. Daniel Eric Finkel is a comedic force to be reckoned with! ...more | |
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“Which suggests something ominous to me. That all our self-knowledge, all our dreams and motivations, our histories even, might be nothing more than a seat-of-our-pants, ex post facto rationalization of things that were decided billions of years ago by an ancient civilization of alien slugs.”
― Cleave the Sparrow
― Cleave the Sparrow
“Remember this when you’re considering the odds of your own existence—meaning the chances of your precise genetic combination emerging from the primordial ooze. As calculated by biologist Ali Binazir, those odds are 1 in 10 to the 2,685,000th power. That’s a one with two million, six hundred eighty five thousand zeros. It’s a number so absurdly large, it dwarfs our mammoth estimates of planets and digital humans. In fact, it dwarfs everything, everywhere. There’s really nothing larger in this whole universe than the improbability of your own existence, and yet here you are.”
― Cleave the Sparrow
― Cleave the Sparrow
“Thorp had tried to build a wall between North and South Dakota for some reason. He contracted the job to his son, and the whole thing turned out to be a money laundering scheme to fund disbanded Nicaraguan Contras who were launching a tech start-up in Ireland.”
― Cleave the Sparrow
― Cleave the Sparrow
“Which suggests something ominous to me. That all our self-knowledge, all our dreams and motivations, our histories even, might be nothing more than a seat-of-our-pants, ex post facto rationalization of things that were decided billions of years ago by an ancient civilization of alien slugs.”
― Cleave the Sparrow
― Cleave the Sparrow
“Performative violence is all you troglodytes can understand. So, we’ll do it that way.”
― Cleave the Sparrow
― Cleave the Sparrow
“Remember this when you’re considering the odds of your own existence—meaning the chances of your precise genetic combination emerging from the primordial ooze. As calculated by biologist Ali Binazir, those odds are 1 in 10 to the 2,685,000th power. That’s a one with two million, six hundred eighty five thousand zeros. It’s a number so absurdly large, it dwarfs our mammoth estimates of planets and digital humans. In fact, it dwarfs everything, everywhere. There’s really nothing larger in this whole universe than the improbability of your own existence, and yet here you are.”
― Cleave the Sparrow
― Cleave the Sparrow
“Tom, do you know how evolution by natural selection works? — Mostly, yeah. — Then you know it’s not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent— — It’s the one with fins. — It’s the one who’s most responsive to change. — Oh, right.”
― Cleave the Sparrow
― Cleave the Sparrow