{"id":2192,"date":"2016-09-20T20:18:11","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T14:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fableandi.com\/?p=2192"},"modified":"2020-03-04T15:13:56","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T09:43:56","slug":"dark-matter-blake-crouch-nail-biting-race-parallel-realities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebooksatchel.com\/dark-matter-blake-crouch-nail-biting-race-parallel-realities\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Matter by Blake Crouch – A Nail Biting Race Through Parallel Realities"},"content":{"rendered":"
A man is plucked away from the life that he has lived so far and is transported to another parallel reality where he might be happier. Does he want to stay or leave? And can he do that?<\/p>\n
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When I received a package that read \u201cThere is a version of you that will open this and a version of you that won\u2019t\u201d I immediately cut it open (as any genuine reader would do) and into my lap fell this beauty of a book.<\/p>\n
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How often have we gone off wandering in day dreams with \u201cwhat if\u201d beginnings? Every human thinks how different his\/her life would have been if one had chosen different options in the past. And that is what makes this book so compelling.<\/p>\n
Imagine you have an ordinary, not perfect, but happy life. You have a wife you are in love with and a child. You are on your way back home after congratulating a friend for winning the Pavia prize. On the way back you encounter a masked man who asks you \u201cAre you happy with your life?\u201d You go dizzy as if drugged and when you open your eyes again a man whom you have never seen before, smiles at you, stretches out his hand and says \u201cWelcome back\u201d.<\/p>\n
Sounds confusing? This is exactly what happens to Jason Dessen. He is whisked away into another world where his \u2018life\u2019 does not exist in the way he knows it, but in another alternate reality where had he made certain different choices in life, he might have ended in. Then follows a mad race to get back to his original version of life with the realization that he has no clue where to begin. Here are a few highlights<\/p>\n
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