Recursion

This is just one from a couple of years ago.

It was called Recursion-

Mm

... by this author Blake Crouch, and it was, like, a sci-fi novel-

And then he drops the payload.

He tells her, and the millions of people listening, to go read Blake Crouch, specifically a novel called Recursion.

Right.

And this wasn't a one-off remark either.

It suggests that 50 years from now, when the specific pop culture references of our current era have faded, the core questions Crouch is asking in his novels will still be terrifyingly relevant.

Okay, the hype is immense.

The sci-fi Mount Rushmore comparison has been made, so what is the actual machinery of the book that earned this praise? Let's dissect Recursion.

Let's do it.

He reads modern thrillers too.

He specifically shouts out Blake Crouch, recommending his two thousand nineteen novel Recursion.

Great book.

It is.

I feel, I feel like that one is also, Upgrade, is also my least favorite even though it's like I would recommend Blake Crouch to any reader.

I feel like if you want more emotional resonance, you need to do Recursion.

I'm so excited to do Recursion.

High on my list.

That one made me cry.

Here's where it gets really interesting.

In Blake Crouch's 2019 metaphysical thriller Recursion, the focus is on false memory syndrome.

It's this weird epidemic where people vividly, agonizingly remember entire lives they did not actually live.

And the trigger in Recursion is a neuroscientist named Helena Smith.

She initially sets out to build a chair, just a machine, to save her mother's fading mind from Alzheimer's.

Noble intentions, right?

Hmm

... um, in the past, Vincent picked a book called Recursion by Blake Crouch.

Yeah, yeah.

Um, which talks a lot about individual experiences of time.

Um, so this is striking me, uh, particularly that you are giving a, an interesting thing to think about with relation to what I was just reading and thinking on last night.

[laughs]

You, did you like Recursion?

I did like Recursion.