Sum: Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman
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Sum: Tales from the Afterlives
- By: David Eagleman
- Narrated by: Gillian Anderson, Emily Blunt, Nick Cave, Jarvis Cocker, David Eagleman, Noel Fielding, Stephen Fry
- Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins
- Categories: Literature & Fiction
About this listen
In this astounding book, David Eagleman entertains 40 fictional possibilities of life beyond death. With wit and humanity he asks the key questions about existence, hope, technology and love.
These stories are full of big ideas and bold imagination.This audiobook assembles a stellar cast of readers who bring the scenarios of SUM brilliantly alive: Gillian Anderson, Emily Blunt, Nick Cave, Jarvis Cocker, Jack Davenport, Lisa Dwan, David Eagleman, Noel Fielding, Kerry Fox, Stephen Fry, Clarke Peters, Lemn Sissay and Harriet Walter.
©2009 David Eagleman (P)2010 Canongate Audiobooks
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Fables about afterlife
The most interesting and funny compendium of philosophical ideas about the afterlife. Great food for wondering minds.
andrew johnstone
Has Its Moments.
Was aware of this novel and had always intended to read it but it had drifted from my radar until Jenji Kohan mentioned it while being interviewed by Kim Hill (Radio New Zealand) recently.
Kohan, the writer producer of Orange is the New Black, has it under development for a TV series.
Anyways…… David Eagleman is a celebrity neuroscientist. This could be construed as a putdown, it’s not. He is a first rate speculative thinker and scientist.
As for Sum………taken literally, as I took it for the first two stories, I was thinking mediocre. I had made the same mistake so many christians do when approaching the bible. Sum is to be taken as a metaphor and is filled with myriad and wonderful philosophical musings about human nature, like that other aforementioned book.
Mostly provocative, beautifully composed and from my perspective, worthwhile. Fans of speculative science fiction will probably appreciate, literal biblical christians won’t.