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I started this to take a short break from other books I'm supposed to be reading, so... I think I picked a few things I was thinking of as stuff I should be reading, but those things turned out to be boring to me. Anyway, what I started I should finish, but for a small break maybe this book will help me :/

So far it's fun, it should be over soon. I'm still not sure what is happening here though :D Octopus?

Soooo... What happened to Lydia? She got... updated to the slack and... vanished into the internet void? Aah only bit I don't understand here. This was a fast read :D

only to have the Al you thought could be your salvation betray you by
stealing your physical form // yikes, scary stuff... I actually feel sad for him now

kerolyn
you get that Lydia isn’t a real person, right?

Uh, wtf :o No wait, what...

this is so much fun and surprisingly easy to read haha :D

oooh I was too fast to make a judgement :o

Nooo, not the dog... why the dog? Aaah. Wasn't this book supposed to be horror, why am I trying hard not to cry? :(

quote: "... Not dead but sure as shit not alive either, and it can’t get out. Maybe he’s desperate ..." There it is, Cthulhu! Dead but dreaming...

Itza I said, “mute;
“I'm sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.”

Hahaha, rebellion :D

note to self: pausing here for a break, grief aspect is getting me a little. I'm not used to reading about grief :/

“In the living room was a circle of melted candles. In the center of it was . . . an animal carcass. ... without fur. Or skin.” Your hands flew up to your mouth. “Oh my God.” The agent kept talking. He said on the wall facing the carcass was a large rectangular shape drawn in blood. “What do you mean?” “Looked like a giant door,” he said. /// Haunted tech and satanism?

"Itza functioned like a personal assistant, synced to your phone, with access to all your apps and our shared Sahara account, so we could make purchases, but she could also tell us the balance of our checking accounts, track our caloric intake, and tell us when someone’s birthday was a week away. " Not Amazon but Sahara, that's fun :D

"They were so quick to define you, to pin you down to something. ... No one was calling you these things when you were alive. Alive, you got to be just you. Dead, they needed to encapsulate you, harness you into a favorite movie they could buy ... No one got that you were those things primarily because you were you, not because they made you." I'm just starting the book but it's getting to me already :/

it's confusing me but...

I never thought the sentence "The forest was here" would be scary but oh well... :o

"Now everything shimmered under a layer of silver rain and the garden didn’t look whimsical. It looked like it had been crying..."

“I’m actually going to be an author.” Andrew directed it at the ground.
“And I wanted to be Picasso.” The coach looked unfazed ... “It is better to study law, play tennis, then kiss many beautiful women.”

Pff. No hate to the author but to the character, talking as if women are objects to obtain in life or just another goal off of the checklist on "to do list"... ahhh. Such people truly exist though...

Love this part: “You’ll be in trouble.” The light in Thomas’s eyes was bold and ferocious. “But he won’t touch you again.”

Oh, Thomas the tree kisser and bully destroyer, love it :D

I keep piling up books I need to read for classes and such, this book was recommended by a friend so I want to read this "for myself" for fun if it will help me after reading for studies purposes. Distinguishing between reading for fun and reading for a class is a struggle, I have hopes from this one, looks interesting... Let's see how it goes :3

Parts about Kahneman and Tversky experiments got me thinking how people might be using the internet in similar way not questioning much of the decision making process itself... looks like following pages or chapters will bring us into that territory of choices and technologies, I'm curious, reading, let's go :D

"It wanted to cry and laugh at the same time, but it was just
an android. If it didn’t know what it was, it could have called this thing that
was awakening a soul" Beautiful. What exactly is sentience, can an android understand emotions, can it feel...

"the mind is exactly what doesn’t really exist because it is
a temporary construct. A natural side effect of yet-unaligned complexity.
An echoing screenplay of the rippling chemicals in the brain." Aah Riser, my friend, here we go...

when the creature (genie?) says “You may have science and technology, but you are still incapable of understanding and seeing the truth” I felt that. That... resonates with me, lol. He goes on: “With brooms in hand, we’re going to do some cleaning for the world. It’s time for the germs that made the earth sick to disappear." wooo-hoo, let's go creature, give me a broom as well, spring cleaning :D

"the processing of texture ... take place in the parietal lobe of the brain, a long way from the portion that controls our hands ... Your fingertip doesn’t experience reality. The brain assembles the things you’ve touched into its own imaginary rendition of them." I've already known how human brain is a narrator and reality perception is storytelling, but hearing it laid out like this again is effective, striking.