Loved itDark Matter is his same life but a different version of it.
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Dark Matter (2016)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive One night after an evening out, Jason Dessen, forty-year-old physics professor living with his wife and son in Chicago, is kidnapped at gunpoint by a masked man, driven to an abandoned industrial site and injected with a powerful drug. As he wakes, a man Jason's never met smiles down at him and says, "Welcome back, my friend." But this life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife; his son was never born; and he's not an ordinary college professor, but a celebrated genius who has achieved something impossible. Is it this world or the other that's the dream? How can he possibly make it back to the family he loves? The answers lie in a journey more wondrous and horrifying than anything he could have imagined--one that will force him to confront the darkest parts of himself as he battles a terrifying, seemingly unbeatable foe. --
- ISBN:
- 9798217298976
- Length:
- 383 pages
Genres: science fiction, mystery, thriller
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Loved itDark matter. The OG. Don't know if I just forgot. But obviously Reddit, loved it. Was a gateway drug for speculative fiction, I feel, for me.
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Loved itHaving read Dark Matter immediately before Recursion and really enjoying that cinematic popcorn thriller flavor of science fiction of that book, I was all lubed up and ready to pounce. ... Dark Matter questions identity and love in a much more satisfying way eventually.
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Not a fanSo, in general, I really dislike this book. I think it's kind of a shitty book and I think it's a shitty main character.
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Mixedwas a confection an airport Thriller dressed up as a science fiction book it was pretty good I enjoyed it while I was there completely forgettable
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Loved itDark Matter isn't as thematically heavy as some of the other books on this list but it makes up for that in pure entertainment
Loved ithis books like black dark matter and recursion are some of my favorite books of like the last five years
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Loved itthis is another adult thriller loved it realized I loved Blake Crouch and I've gone on to read more of its books now recommend this book all time loved it you should read it was amazing
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Loved itit is it's a crazy book it's going to mess with your mind it would make a great movie I'll say that but it's a book that I will never forget
Loved itwhen I read it I was like oh this is a concept I love! It's doing it for me! And I was geeking out so much while reading it. ... I really enjoyed it.
Loved itthis is such an awesome sci-fi thriller not hard sci-fi more like physics type of sci-fi and I think a lot of people would enjoy this book
Loved itdark matter by Blake Crouch this is such an obvious favorite for me I've talked about this many times but this book was so shocking and thriller II and it was just so entertaining and different
Loved itI read dark matter by Blake Crouch which I gave a 4.25 out of five stars