Retrieved from: my library076531179, 2005
Suggested by: me when I cataloged it--LOOK at that cover!
My Ratings: 9 Merit, 8 Interest, 8 Fun
Philosphy in a book, set in Vienna. In this askew view of reality, people, when they die, don't just stop--they start working through their 'unresolved issues' by living in a world they created--while alive--in their dreams. But Chaos is threatening the way the world works, and if it succeeds humans and the rest of creation will cease to exist. Like, forever. Like a tree falling in the forest and not making a sound because no one is there to hear it fall.
This is a deceptively deep book, easily read for the 'story' in about 3 hours. Very accessible. Then, when you start thinking about it, it starts sucking you into the big questions. For instance, Who's running the world? Does it exist in the same way for everyone in it? Does the way I experience things change the way the world works? Do we know what the future holds, but keep it hidden from ourselves? Can we change fate, and thereby change the world? Is God a polar bear?
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