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Immortalization Commission: The Strange Quest To Cheat Death (2012)

by John Nicholas Gray(Favorite Author)

3.5 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0141041889 (ISBN13: 9780141041889)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Penguin Books

review 1: Wow. I have always loved John Gray's clearly thought out analyses of various situations and conditions but this one was full of information I had never come across. Very much worth the time it took to read it - I'll be thinking about the things in here for a long time to come. His take on science and the way in which the individuals concerned in its development have pushed ideas as a result of their personal crises is intriguing and compelling.
review 2: A really great book about the human quest for immortality and why it is so absurd. I loved the mixture of politics, philosophy and history, focusing on the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Europe, the United States, and Russia. The only part I didn't "get" was the very long description of the bloody extr... moreemes of the Russian revolution - I wasn't sure why Gray included that except maybe to hammer home that some of the humans who believed in a "Superman" were actually some of the worst humans. less

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