Do you want to live forever?
This is a book that lives and dies by a simple idea, what if you could stop aging? You could liver forever at the age that you currently are, you are not however invulnerable, you just stop moving to your natural expected departure from this mortal coil. This novel explores issues and raises questions radiating out from that singular premise, there is a cure that stops aging and effectively prevents death from natural causes. The novel is sent in the first person and follows one man, it is actually to be his blog so the story is written as a journal with some news stories of his time thrown in. When done correctly I like books written in this style, especially if they are less about the main character and more about the ideas and events around him or her.
I liked this book, honestly who hasn't thought about being immortal? This explores one possibility of that happening, and not one set in the far future but less than a decade from now. This helps as the world of the novel is easily relate-able to what we have now, they just have better phones. I found the "news" articles that the character posts as part of his blog to be especially interesting and they seem to serve to explore all the facets of this new world with no set life span. I recommend it, it is a quick read and very intriguing. I for one can see what happens in the book occurring very easily in our society, however you ay have a different outlook on the world of this novel. The novel itself places several scenarios to the reader, some I admit I had not thought of, however I will leave all of them to your discovery. However, I will ask one question that the novel places before you, are we really able to live forever?
The Postmortal by Drew Magary
