{"id":75531,"date":"2018-01-24T02:02:33","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T10:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/does-living-forever-sound-ideal-these-5-new-books-will-change-your-mind"},"modified":"2018-01-24T02:02:33","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T10:02:33","slug":"does-living-forever-sound-ideal-these-5-new-books-will-change-your-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/does-living-forever-sound-ideal-these-5-new-books-will-change-your-mind","title":{"rendered":"Does living forever sound ideal? These 5 new books will change your mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/does-living-forever-sound-ideal-these-5-new-books-will-change-your-mind.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That wisdom from Ecclesiastes is the theme of five new novels, which, if they did not give me a taste of immortality, at least made me feel like the week would never end. The coincidence of their arrival is a little creepy, but it suggests the growing relevance of this subject for a generation reviewing itineraries to the undiscovered country with deep ambivalence. In shades of comedy and tragedy, realism and fantasy, these contemporary authors dig up a lot of old conceits and, like Dr. Frankenstein, zap them to life with mixed results.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The dark side of immortality: \u201cHow to Stop Time,\u201d \u201cEternal,\u201d \u201cThe Immortalists,\u201d \u201cImmortal Life\u201d and \u201cThe Afterlives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/entertainment\/books\/does-living-forever-sounds-ideal-these-5-new-books-will-change-your-mind\/2018\/01\/23\/2adb5460-ff7f-11e7-bb03-722769454f82_story.html?utm_term=.786ae74d42e4\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/entertainment\/books\/does-livi...6ae74d42e4<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That wisdom from Ecclesiastes is the theme of five new novels, which, if they did not give me a taste of immortality, at least made me feel like the week would never end. The coincidence of their arrival is a little creepy, but it suggests the growing relevance of this subject for a generation reviewing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}