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Love and Other Thought Experiments Kindle Edition

by Sophie Ward (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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September 28, 2021
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08Z7CQG9D
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vintage (September 28, 2021)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 28, 2021
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2614 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 271 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1472154592

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Sophie Ward is an actor and writer from North London. Her first book was A Marriage Proposal, published by the Guardian in 2014. She has a PhD from Goldsmiths, University of London and her first novel, Love and Other Thought Experiments, was published by Corsair on February 6th 2020. Her second novel, The Schoolhouse, was published by Corsair on May 5th 2022.

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Nicole Del Sesto

A true original

Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2020

When I read the description of this book, I thought no thanks. I’m not good with connected short stories, and that’s how I read it. But make no mistake – this is a novel – unconventional, but a novel. Creative in structure and content. It was sophisticated, interesting, fun, and at times funny.

I know a lot of it went over my head, I’m definitely not philosophical.

A really impressive book, which was also fun and a fast read. It reminded me a bit of Cloud Atlas (loosely). This is the kind of book I expect to see on the Booker list.

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Kathy G.

Best Fiction I've Read in Quite Some Time

Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2020

Read this wonderful novel in just one weekend because it was too hard to put down! The story pulls you along with truly original, engaging characters and an unusually thought-provoking plot. Loved this book -- best fiction I've read in some time. Highly recommend.

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Abdul Khan

DESERVES TO BE ON BOOKER SHORTLIST

Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2020

First third is a bit slow and you question the author's choice of perspectives... but, hands down, probably the best novel I've read published this year!

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Siddharth lokare

Amazed!

Reviewed in India on April 9, 2021

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The best book I have ever read.

T. P. Cross

Thought Experiments...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 12, 2020

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This was not what I was expecting.

There are so many ideas in this book, which is about what it means to be human. At its base. And I know that phrase, 'what it means to be human', is such a cliche and that's a shame because this book will probably end up deserving a better review than I am about to give it.

I was distracted by the title of this book into believing that this would be another one of those problems of the middle-class, middle-aged that I have always assumed dominate Booker Prize Lists. This is my own prejudice, based on ignorance. I read a lot, but not much of what I read are books that appear on Booker Prize Long Lists (or win Booker Prizes). I believe the term is 'literary fiction', which almost sounds like it has a bit of a sneer built into it.

But Love and Other Thought Experiments is not that kind of book at all. In some people's eyes, you'd call it a Science-Fiction novel. Indeed if it reminded me of anyone it was Philip K. Dick. Using philosophical ideas - the 'thought experiments' of the title to tell a story with many threads. I don't want to say too much because I don't want to spoil the story. This is definitely a book that you should come to unspoiled.

Each chapter begins with the explanation of a particular thought experiment and then uses that experiment as the foundation of the fiction that follows. Initially, I thought it would be a series of unlinked stories, but then I realized that wasn't the case. These stories were all linked, but not quite how I expected.

I'm going to have to read this book again at some point because I fear in my enthusiasm for it I might have rushed it. Plus I read a huge chunk of it between 4.30 and 7.30 this morning when a combination of back pain and heat made me give up on attempting to sleep. Plus I already know that there are parts of this book that I am going to think about over and over again.

Fantastic work.

(I suspect the publishers would prefer people not to think of it as science-fiction. They're still very snobbish like that. But what is science-fiction if it isn't a thought experiment?)

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Laura Athena

Such a unique anthology, only really hits it's stride after the ant story

Reviewed in Australia on March 18, 2022

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What an unusual anthology! Starts off conventionally enough, about a lesbian couple, one of whom keeps insisting that she has an ant in her eye that is too small to see.
But as the stories progress, the perspectives become weirder and more profound. For example one story is from the perspective of the ant itself. Utterly fascinating. Then there's a story from the perspective of an AI.
Really unique and a series I will read again!

Luke Dennison

Original, thought provoking and very well written

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 2, 2022

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I know nothing about Sophie Ward, but it is remarkable that this is her first novel.

Based on the chapters that inter-link, the link between them is not clear at first and requires a bit of faith.

Even then, the way this book is written, it's premise and it's style are so clever, thought out and we l written. If I had to like it to another author in would say David Mitchell, but the resemblance to his work is fleeting.

I won't give this 5 stars because I am not clever enough to fully understand the philosophical musings at the start of each chapter and whilst I enjoyed to a point, trying to understand their significance I was ultimately slightly frustrated by that. Overall, I really good novel though.

Mayavie

Fantastic philosophical fiction!

Reviewed in India on October 6, 2020

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Rachel wakes up one night, terrified that an ant has crawled into her eye and is stuck there. Her partner, Eliza, is sceptical. Their entire relationship is precariously hinged on one question that Rachel asks Eliza - Do you believe me?

This is a fascinating philosophical fiction novel with an interesting premise - each of the 10 chapters begin with a classic thought experiment, which are like writing prompts that take the book forward.

Ward is a writer with a brilliant and a beautiful mind. However, while the first half (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️) had me hooked and blew my mind, especially the chapter from the ant’s PoV where the above quote is from, I had trouble suspending my disbelief in the last 4 chapters (⭐️⭐️⭐️) that take the story into the outer space, and had to skim through some bits I found boring, even though Ward managed to neatly tie it all together in the end.

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