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6 Reddit comments about Beat the Reaper: A Novel (Package May Vary):

u/cowens · 234 pointsr/funny

> Since the face of Violet’s watch is still glowing, she decides to calculate the temperature using cricket noises, something her father taught her how to do when she was twelve, and at least gives you an answer in metric. By cricket it’s ten degrees centigrade out. By conversion: fifty degrees Fahrenheit. It gets her off the porch. Whatever’s out there is better than thinking about this bullshit.

You can read the rest in the book which is a sequel to Beat the Reaper, but you don't really need to read the first book first (but I think it is the better of the two).

There are apparently at least two versions of Wild Thing, as the image above says "Violet decides that while her watch face is still glowing,", but in the Kindle version, the line after "because you can't directly relate any of those quantities." is the one I quoted above. So, I don't actually know what happens to her watch. It could be in that version aliens step out from behind a bush and kidnap her. Who knows.

Another difference comes before the main quote: "[Being raised, as Violet was, without the] metric system is like being raised with a harness on your brain." In the Kindle version, it says "Being raised, as Violet was, without the metric system is like being raised without Vitamin D. Whatever the fuck rickets are, it gives you the mental version of them."

I wonder if the image is from an early draft or something.

u/triggerfish_twist · 2 pointsr/booksuggestions
u/bumbletowne · 1 pointr/books

Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell

gangster in witness protection gets discovered, takes badass revenge

Andromeda Strain or Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

Jurassic park is dinos in a 'modern lost world' scenario and andromeda strain is alien bacteria creating zombie apocalypse without the zombies

Empire of the Ants by Bernard Werber

people get shrunk down and discover the empire of the ants

Watership Down by Richard Adams

animal farm with rabbits and australians

The Lies of Locke Lemora by Scott Lynch

adventure with magic and ocean's 11 style crime. Sometimes funny othertimes adventurous and sometimes badassery

Tunnel in the Sky by Heinlein (very adventure/survival thriller)

kids are getting their survival badges, shit gets real very quickly. Lord of the flies meets firefly

u/MinervaDreaming · 1 pointr/suggestmeabook

I definitely recommend Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell. Fun book - I listened to the audiobook, which had a great reader.

u/liebereddit · 1 pointr/malelifestyle

They all seem to be for 8-14yr olds...

Edit: Oh. Maybe that's what the OP meant. I got excited because I thought it would be a bunch of great books for guys, not for kids.

In case that's what you came looking for too, here's a couple of greats:

Beat the Reaper It's like House meets the Sopranos, except better.

Altered Carbon The most bad ass futuristic sci-fi book, ever.

u/celticeejit · 1 pointr/booksuggestions

Josh Bazell: Beat the Reaper