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I am posting my first book-revieew today. I know we started this blog a while ago, but we never got the chance to actually use it. Both exams and other things prevented me from blogging. From now on will I try to post minimum one book-review a week.. it will be both fictional an d non-fictional books.
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The End Specialist: Who Wants to Live Forever?

Written by: Drew Magary

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2019. Humanity has witnessed its greatest scientific breakthrough yet: the cure for ageing. Three injections and you’re immortal – not bulletproof or disease–proof but you’ll never have to fear death by old age.

For John Farrell, documenting the cataclysmic shifts to life after the cure becomes an obsession. Sure parties, cycle marriages, immortal livestock: the world is reveling in the miracles of eternal youth. But immorality has a sinister side, and when a pro-death terrorist explosion kills his newly-cured best friend, John soon realizes that even in a world without natural death, there is always something to fear.

Now, John must make a new choice: run and hide forever, or stay and fight those who try to make immortal life a living hell.

I must say I was quite intrigued by the book. It had a promising cover: the grim reaper with its own scythe plunged into its chest. The death of death itself. The concept of immorality is not new, but it has either been restricted to few people (Gods, holy men etc) or there have been living dead (read: Zombies). In The End Specialist, the cure for aging is in reach for everyone.

The book is written as a blog, spanning a time over 60 years. The first entry is from 2019, when John went to the doctor to get the cure. It is still not legalized in the USA, but possible to acquire from the black market. We read about how he feel about getting the cure, his families reaction, and the political debate going about whether or not to legalize the cure.

John is an everyday man. A lawyer with a good job, a loving family and a good future. The reader understand his and everyone else desire to take the cure. Eith the cure comes other question. The way of life is altered. When you have a eternity to live, will you then live it with the same spouse? Is it responsible to have many kids? They will grow until an age, before they take the cure. And with an eternity to live will they take an education? How long are you responsible for your kids? And the sustainability of a never-ending human race on the planet? And the essential question: would you take the cure if you had the possibility?

The best thing about the writing style is how Magary writes the book as a blog, without making it too cliché or boring. He writes fictional news headlines, the Presidential speech before the cure is legalized and political opinion. It makes it more lifelike and more sinister. It also makes it difficult to put it aside. I read the book in one and a half day. I started at the evening of the first day, and I had it read out before i went to sleep next day.

I recommend this book at the highest. Stars: 4/5