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Matéria Escura – Blake Crouch

Um livro imperdível para quem gosta de ficção com base em teorias e descobertas da física, astronomia e cosmólogos. O livro parte daquela ideia (que uma vez eu já tinha lido em um livro do Richard Bach que se chama Um) que cada vez que alguém toma uma decisão, sua vida segue aquela opção tomada, mas um “outro eu” vai pelo caminho da outra decisão... e todo o universo fica diferente! Então, um professor que abre mão de uma carreira científica muito avançada em benefício de ter uma família de repente se vê as voltas em um mundo que um seu outro eu resolveu não se dedicar a família, mas sim à ciência... E é um mundo completamente diferente!

Veja como isso é descrito no livro:

“É assustador pensar que cada ideia que a gente tem, cada escolha que a gente faz se ramifica num novo mundo. Hoje, depois do jogo de beisebol, fomos ao Navy Pier, depois viemos jantar aqui, certo? Mas isso é só uma versão do que aconteceu. Numa realidade diferente, em vez do píer, fomos a um concerto de música clássica; em outra, ficamos em casa. Numa terceira, sofremos um acidente fatal na Lakeshore Drive e nunca chegamos a nenhum outro lugar.

- Mas essas outras realidades não existem concretamente.

- Na verdade, elas são tão reais quanto a que estamos vivendo agora – diz Jason.”

“- Por que as pessoas se casam com versões das mães controladoras? Ou dos pais ausentes?Para, quando adultos, consertarem o que as magoou quando eram crianças. Pode ser que não faça sentido num nível superficial, mas o inconsciente funciona de seu próprio jeito...”

E há a possibilidade de alcançar essas outras alternativas... enfim, muitíssimo bem escrito. Um livro que não se quer largar.

Vai ser adaptado pela Netflix, mas não deixe de ler o livro!

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Sometimes if you look long enough you’ll find it. I’ve been looking for the first two Pines books by Blake Crouch for a while. Stumbled across them in 2nd & Charles yesterday. How’s your luck at finding hidden book treasures? #waywardpines #blakecrouch #usedbooks #2ndandcharles #paperbacks #bookstagram #bookshelves #booknerd #readinglife #bookphotography #bookcommunity #bookblogger #sodacityreads #suspensebook #bookhaul #literarycrimefiction #homelibrary #thrillerbooks #domesticthriller #crimefiction #thriller #characterdrivenbooks #mysterythriller #bookrecs #mysterysuspense (at 2nd & Charles) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmKPi9NP7cf/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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tvrundown USA 2024.05.08

Wednesday, May 8th:

(exclusive): In Limbo (hulu, ghost dramedy, all 6 eps), "Hollywood Con Queen" (apple+, docuseries, all 3 parts), "Everybody's In L.A." (netflix, livestream in primetime)

(movies): "The Final: Attack on Wembley" (netflix, documentary), "Let It Be" (dsn+, newly-restored classic 1970 Beatles documentary)

(streaming weekly): Dark Matter (apple+, Blake Crouch sci-fi series premiere, first 2 eps), Acapulco (apple+), The Big Door Prize (apple+), LOOT (apple+), Palm Royale (apple+, limited series finale), Under the Bridge (hulu), Blood Free (hulu, next 2 eps, season 1 finale), House of the Owl (hulu|dsn+, season 1 finale), "X-Men '97" (dsn+, part 2 of three, penultimate), Sister Boniface Mysteries (BritBox, next 2 eps), The Challenge: All Stars (Para+), The Circle (netflix, season 6 finale), Frankly Speaking (netflix)

(also new): "Buying Back My Daughter" (LMN original movie, 2hrs), John Mulaney Presents: "Everybody's In L.A." (netflix, night 4)

(hour 1): Chicago Med (NBC), Walker (theCW), Jeopardy! Masters (ABC, 60mins), The Masked Singer (FOX), Survivor (CBS, 90mins)

(hour 2): Chicago Fire (NBC), Sight Unseen (theCW), Abbott Elementary (ABC) / . / The Conners (ABC), Animal Control (FOX, season 2 finale) / . / Family Guy (FOX, repeat), The Black Hamptons (BET, season 2 finale), Survivor (CBS, contd) / . / The Amazing Race (CBS, 90mins), Top Chef (BRAVO, 75mins), Supermarket Stakeout (FOOD), "A Brief History of the Future" (PBS, part 6/6, docuseries finale)

(hour 3): Chicago P.D. (NBC), grown-ish (Freeform), Reginald the Vampire (SyFy, season 2 opener), The Amazing Race (CBS, contd, penultimate)

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Apple TV+ debuts trailer for SciFi series “Dark Matter"

Apple TV+ has just dropped the trailer for its much-anticipated sci-fi thriller series, “Dark Matter,” and it’s already creating a buzz in the entertainment world. The series, which stars Joel Edgerton and Academy Award winner Jennifer Connelly, is set to make its global debut on May 8, 2024, with a storyline that promises to captivate audiences with its exploration of alternate realities and the essence of identity. Dark Matter is based on the novel by Blake Crouch. It stars Joel Edgerton as Jason Dessen, who has a nice life with his wife (Jennifer Connelly) and son (Oakes Fegley). He does mysterious science work and seems happy enough until one night he is abducted and wakes up in a world that’s very, very different. The summary spells it all out: Hailed as one of the best sci-fi novels of the decade, Dark Matter is a story about the road not taken. The series will follow Jason Dessen (played by Joel Edgerton), a physicist, professor and family man who — one night while walking home on the streets of Chicago — is abducted into an alternate version of his life. Wonder quickly turns to nightmare when he tries to return to his reality amid the mind-bending landscape of lives he could have lived. In this labyrinth of realities, he embarks on a harrowing journey to get back to his true family and save them from the most terrifying, unbeatable foe imaginable: himself. The series also stars Westworld’s Jimmi Simpson and A Murder at the End of the World’s Alice Braga. Crouch himself is the series’ writer and showrunner—his third time working on an adaptation of his own work (he co-created Good Behavior with Chad Hodge, and was a writer for Hodge’s adaptation of Wayward Pines).    The trailer, which has garnered over 1.9 million views since its release, teases a series filled with suspense, emotion, and existential twists. Alongside Edgerton and Connelly, the ensemble cast includes Alice Braga, Jimmi Simpson, Dayo Okeniyi, and Oakes Fegley, all of whom contribute to the rich tapestry of this complex narrative. “Dark Matter” is not just a sci-fi series; it’s a profound look at the choices we make and the paths those choices lead us down. It’s about the road not taken and the infinite possibilities that exist within the multiverse. The show is poised to join the ranks of Apple TV+'s growing roster of acclaimed sci-fi originals, such as “Foundation” and “For All Mankind.” The series is produced for Apple TV+ by Sony Pictures Television, with Crouch at the helm as creator, executive producer, showrunner, and writer. Matt Tolmach and David Manpearl also serve as executive producers, alongside Joel Edgerton.

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Dark Matter Review

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch is a 352 page Science Fiction Stand-Alone novel.

Jason Dessen is walking home through the chilly Chicago streets one night, looking forward to a quiet evening in front of the fireplace with his wife, Daniela, and their son, Charlie—when his reality shatters. "Are you happy with your life?" Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious. Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits. Before a man Jason's never met smiles down at him and says, "Welcome back, my friend." In this world he's woken up to, Jason's life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife. His son was never born. And Jason is not an ordinary college physics professor, but a celebrated genius who has achieved something remarkable. Something impossible. Is it this world or the other that's the dream? And even if the home he remembers is real, how can Jason possibly make it back to the family he loves? The answers lie in a journey more wondrous and horrifying than anything he could've imagined—one that will force him to confront the darkest parts of himself even as he battles a terrifying, seemingly unbeatable foe.

I rate this book 3/5 stars.

I still don't know how to feel about this book. At certain points I wish the story had taken different turns. It took me too long to read, even at 1.5x speed, as it wasn't really a book I wanted to keep coming back to once I'd put it down. It gives me strong midnight library vibes, which I also though was an alright book. The ending suck in my opinion. It was with a soft hiss instead of the bang I was expecting.

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The Choices We Make

Note on the text: I used Dark Matter by Blake Crouch as published in 2017 by Ballantine Books

   I’ve seen so many versions of you. With me. Without me. Artist. Teacher. Graphic Designer. 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? And isn’t that what you have to make peace with? (314).

Writing an essay about this book without giving away every detail about this book is very hard. This is a really great piece of science fiction that takes place across a multiverse that is, at its core, about choice- about the choices we make about our own lives and how we need to own them. 

The main character in this saga, across the whole multiverse, is Jason Dessen. Now although we meet multiple variations of this character as they pop up across the multiverse, the main version of Jason, the one that we follow all the way through, is a physics professor at a local college who is married to a woman named Daniela and has a teenage son named Charlie. 

When we meet Jason at the beginning of the book a mostly happy though somewhat remorseful man who wonders about the road not taken. In his youth his was a highly acclaimed researcher in the field of quantum physics. But once Daniela got pregnant with Charlie he decided to abandon his job as a researcher and settle down as a college professor. In fact, when we meet Jason, his old college roommate (and fellow researcher), Ryan, is being given the in world equivalent of the Nobel Prize for his research on the brain. Now when they were in college, everyone thought that Jason was the genius who was destined for greatness and “scientific immortality”, and yet because of his choices his life went in another direction. Ryan became the prodigy and Jason became just another academic. 

We all make decisions in our lives and those choices have consequences. Our happiness comes not so much from the choices themselves (although those are definitely important) as they do from our ability to accept the choices that we have made and move on. Every choice we make in life closes the door on one set of possibility while opening the door on others. Regret is powerful because it involves standing in front of doors that will never open, wondering about paths that can never be taken, while denying the reality of the path that we’re on right now. 

The antagonist of this book is one of the alternates of Jason called Jason2. He is a genius from another world whose life went down a different path. In his case, when Daniela told him that she was pregnant he opted to leave her so that he could focus on his work as a scientist. Eventually he developed a machine that allows him to go between realities. But he is extremely unhappy and has come to regret making the decision he made all those years ago, and instead of accepting the choice he made and finding a way to move forward, he has opted to go into this reality to take over this Jason’s life and send this Jason back to his own world. 

The way he sees it, life, as it is usually lived, will inevitably end in regret. Everyone has to make decision all the time which means that eventually they will make the wrong one, which in turn means that everyone is doomed to live in a state of regret. He sees his invention as a way to correct this. But “life doesn’t work that. You live with your decision and learn [from them]. You [can’t] cheat the system” (326). 

In some sense, Jason2′s choice wasn’t the problem: his decision to stay in a state of perpetual regret was, his unwillingness to accept the decision he made and move on from it was. As Samuel Beckett once said: “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better”. All of us make mistakes. The key to happiness is to not let those mistakes keep us from moving on. Instead we need to learn from our mistakes and keep going: “Try again. Fail again. Fail better”. 

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Is it this world, or just a dream? Even if the home he remembers is real, how can he possibly make it back to that familiar place? All the answers lie in a journey more wondrous and terrifying than he could have imagined. On one path he will have to confront the darkest parts of himself on the other who knows. ❓️Is there a book you've read lately that you think would make an awesome movie or show?? . . #darkmatter #blakecrouch #broadwaybooks #penguinrandomhouse #thriller #thrillerreads #sciencefiction #suggestedreading #bookstagrammademedoit #greatread #reader #igbookreviewer #bookreview #bookopinion #bookstaig https://www.instagram.com/p/Cj02KcCg4sf/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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This book kind of gives me the feel of the straight-to-video sci-fi thrillers I was fond of in the late-90s. Wish I still had those tapes.... #upgrade #upgradenovel #blakecrouch #books #reading #sciencefiction #scifi #nostalgia https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg-V1E9pFJg/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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In my new interview with writer Blake Crouch about his "sci-fi" thriller "Upgrade," he explains what prompted me to put the word "sci-fi" in quotes. https://paulsemel.com/exclusive-interview-upgrade-author-blake-crouch/ 📖🧬✂️

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Recursão – Blake Crouch

Tenho vontade de matar o tradutor que deixou um livro tão bom com um título tão “sem sentido”.... O que é recursão??? Teria sido bem “menos pior” se usassem ao menos “Recorrência”, ou, com alguma licença poética, algo como “De novo, e de novo....”

O livro é instigante... a gente não quer parar de ler para ver o que vai dar.... Uma jovem pesquisadora, cuja mãe está perdendo a memória pelo Alzheimer, procura uma forma de guardar (e restituir) lembranças. Daí suas pesquisas são encampadas por um jovem endinheirado, que lhe fornece todos os recursos possíveis e imagináveis, mas suas ideias são diferentes das dela... Aparece uma epidemia de “falsas memórias’ e um policial começa a investigar, mesmo que o caso em que esteve envolvido tenha sido apenas de um suicídio... Por que recorrência? É possível reviver uma vida, fazendo diferente? E o que isso causa aos demais? Lembre-se sempre que, como diz o ditado: O inferno está cheio de gente com boas intenções!

“Porque memória.. é tudo. Fisicamente, uma lembrança não passa de uma combinação específica de impulsos nervosos, uma sinfonia de atividade cerebral. Mas, na verdade, é o filtro que se coloca entre nós e a realidade. Você acha que está tomando vinho, ouvindo as palavras que eu digo, no presente, mas isso não existe. Os impulsos neurais das suas papilas gustativas e dos seus ouvidos são transmitidos para o seu cérebro, que processa tudo e joga na memória operacional. Então, quando você tem a percepção de estar vivendo alguma coisa, essa coisa já é passado. Já é uma lembrança. O que nosso cérebro faz para interpretar um mero estímulo como esse já é incrível. As informações visuais e auditivas chegam aos seus olhos e ouvidos a velocidades diferentes, e são processadas a velocidades diferentes. Nosso cérebro espera até que o estímulo mais lento seja processado, para então reordenar corretamente os impulsos nervosos, e é assim que ele permite que a gente absorva tudo junto, como um evento simultâneo... cerca de meio segundo depois que aquilo realmente aconteceu. Achamos de apreendemos o mundo direta e imediatamente, mas todas as nossas experiências são essas reconstruções tardias e cuidadosamente editadas.”

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July is a crazy month for new releases. Blake Crouch and David Baldacci have new books coming out this week. Baldacci and his 40+ books are on the top row here. His new book is very good except there’s an extremely unlikable character named Brad (Brads cannot catch a break 🤦🏼‍♂️) Are you looking forward to any July hew releases? #shelfie #sundayshelfie #bradshelfie #homelibrarygoals #davidbaldacci #the620man #blakecrouch #upgrade #julynewreleases #bookstagram #bookshelves #booknerd #readinglife #bookwormlife #sodacityreads #bookworm #suspensebook #bookhaul #literarycrimefiction #homelibrary #thrillerbooks #domesticthriller #crimefiction #thriller #characterdrivenbooks #mysterythriller #bookrecs #financialthriller #medicalthriller (at White Rock, South Carolina) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf1MDzQAnXW/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Blake Crouch is one of the most beloved authors in the world today. His books have kept readers captivated and entertained over the years, with their unique blend of suspenseful stories, engaging characters, and thrilling plots. Blake Crouch's books never fail to bring something new and exciting to the table.

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Upgrade by Blake Crouch

New Review: Upgrade by Blake Crouch #Upgrade #BlakeCrouch #scifi #review @panmacmillan

“You are the next step in human evolution.”   At first, Logan Ramsay isn’t sure if anything’s different. He just feels a little . . . sharper. Better able to concentrate. Better at multitasking. Reading a bit faster, memorizing better, needing less sleep.   But before long, he can’t deny it: Something’s happening to his brain. To his body. He’s starting to see the world, and those around him—even…