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A review by okiecozyreader
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
5.0
Recursion was one of my favorite sci fi books I have read the last few years. My husband loves sci fi, so I had him read both of these. I have had this one on my list for years and when I saw it in my IMDB to-watch list, I decided now is the time.
It has been a nice change of pace this weekend. It’s so stressful in parts, it is compulsively readable. I read it in less than 24 hours. It kind of reminds me of Midnight Library, but based on quantum mechanics.
Jason Dessen is brilliant. But he and his wife both sacrificed their careers to raise a child. One night, he goes out to meet a friend and runs into a guy in a mask who injects him with a chemical and he wakes up in the floor of a strange building, where they all know him and want to know where he has been. But he doesn’t know…
Ch 5:
“We all live day to day completely oblivious to the fact that we’re a part of a much larger and stranger reality than we can possibly imagine.”
Ch 6:
“It’s terrifying when you consider that every thought we have, every choice we could possibly make, branches into a new world.”
“Most astrophysicists believe that the force holding stars and galaxies together—the thing that makes our whole universe work—comes from a theoretical substance we can’t measure or observe directly. Something they call dark matter.”
Ch 8:
‘The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.’ ” Einstein
Ch 11:
“If you strip away all the trappings of personality and lifestyle, what are the core components that make me me?”
“…the path not taken isn’t just the inverse of who I am. It’s an infinitely branching system that represents all the permutations of my life between the extremes of me and Jason2.”
“Until everything topples, we have no idea what we actually have, how precariously and perfectly it all hangs together.”
“The world you’re looking for is a grain of sand on an infinite beach.”
Ch 14:
“But it’s all, in the end, just life. We see it macro, like one big story, but when you’re in it, it’s all just day-to-day, right?”
“Every moment, every breath, contains a choice. But life is imperfect. We make the wrong choices. So we end up living in a state of perpetual regret, and is there anything worse? I built something that could actually eradicate regret. Let you find worlds where you made the right choice.”
Dedication
“For anyone who has wondered what their life might look like at the end of the road not taken.”
The story behind DARK MATTER
“We’ve all wondered—what would’ve happened if I took that job I turned down? What if…”
“So what is this novel? I like to think of it as a story about the road not taken. It contains elements of thriller, science fiction, paranoid suspense, the slightest touch of horror, but at its core, it’s a love story…”
“It’s also the manifestation of everyone’s existential question: Am I who I was supposed to be? Is this the life I was meant to be living?”
It has been a nice change of pace this weekend. It’s so stressful in parts, it is compulsively readable. I read it in less than 24 hours. It kind of reminds me of Midnight Library, but based on quantum mechanics.
Jason Dessen is brilliant. But he and his wife both sacrificed their careers to raise a child. One night, he goes out to meet a friend and runs into a guy in a mask who injects him with a chemical and he wakes up in the floor of a strange building, where they all know him and want to know where he has been. But he doesn’t know…
Ch 5:
“We all live day to day completely oblivious to the fact that we’re a part of a much larger and stranger reality than we can possibly imagine.”
Ch 6:
“It’s terrifying when you consider that every thought we have, every choice we could possibly make, branches into a new world.”
“Most astrophysicists believe that the force holding stars and galaxies together—the thing that makes our whole universe work—comes from a theoretical substance we can’t measure or observe directly. Something they call dark matter.”
Ch 8:
‘The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.’ ” Einstein
Ch 11:
“If you strip away all the trappings of personality and lifestyle, what are the core components that make me me?”
“…the path not taken isn’t just the inverse of who I am. It’s an infinitely branching system that represents all the permutations of my life between the extremes of me and Jason2.”
“Until everything topples, we have no idea what we actually have, how precariously and perfectly it all hangs together.”
“The world you’re looking for is a grain of sand on an infinite beach.”
Ch 14:
“But it’s all, in the end, just life. We see it macro, like one big story, but when you’re in it, it’s all just day-to-day, right?”
“Every moment, every breath, contains a choice. But life is imperfect. We make the wrong choices. So we end up living in a state of perpetual regret, and is there anything worse? I built something that could actually eradicate regret. Let you find worlds where you made the right choice.”
Dedication
“For anyone who has wondered what their life might look like at the end of the road not taken.”
The story behind DARK MATTER
“We’ve all wondered—what would’ve happened if I took that job I turned down? What if…”
“So what is this novel? I like to think of it as a story about the road not taken. It contains elements of thriller, science fiction, paranoid suspense, the slightest touch of horror, but at its core, it’s a love story…”
“It’s also the manifestation of everyone’s existential question: Am I who I was supposed to be? Is this the life I was meant to be living?”