Sorry Please Thank You: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)

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It's called How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe , and somewhere inside it is information that will help him. It may even save his life. The Den opens at 8 a. Skip to main content.

Search form Search. Advanced Search. For This Book Staff Pick. By Charles Yu. Description From a 5 Under 35 winner, comes a razor-sharp, hilarious, and touching story of a son searching for his father. Yu lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Michelle, and their two children. Praise For… "Glittering layers of gorgeous and playful meta-science-fiction.

Like [Douglas] Adams, Yu is very funny, usually proportional to the wildness of his inventions, but Yu's sound and fury conceal and construct this novel's dense, tragic, all-too-human heart. Yu is a superhero of rendering human consciousness and emotion in the language of engineering and science. A complex, brainy, genre-hopping joyride of a story, far more than the sum of its component parts, and smart and tragic enough to engage all regions of the brain and body.

Yu has a crisp, intermittently lyrical prose style, one that's comfortable with both math and sadness, moving seamlessly from delirious metafiction to the straight-faced prose of instruction-manual entries. Dick are touchstones, but Yu's sense of humor and narrative splashes of color—especially when dealing with a pretty solitary life and the bittersweet search for his father, a time travel pioneer who disappeared—set him apart within the narrative spaces of his own horizontal design.

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A clever little story that will be looped in your head for days. No doubt it will be made into a movie, but let's hope that doesn't take away the heart. But Yu's novel is a good deal more ambitious, and ultimately more satisfying, than that. It's about time travel and cosmology, yes, but it's also about language and narrative — the more we learn about Minor Universe 31, the more it resembles the story space of the novel we're reading, which is full of diagrams, footnotes, pages left intentionally and meaningfully blank and brief chapters from the owner's manual of our narrator's time machine.

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Yu grafts the laws of theoretical physics onto the yearnings of the human heart so thoroughly and deftly that the book's technical language and mathematical proofs take on a sense of urgency. I read the entire book in one gulp. Packed with deft emotional insight. Perhaps it would be better to think of the instructional units of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe in terms of the chapters of social commentary which John Steinbeck placed into the plot structure of The Grapes of Wrath.

Sorry Please Thank You: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)

Emotionally resonant, funny, and as clever as any book I have read all year, this debut novel heralds the arrival of a talented young writer unafraid to take chances. Even when recalling his most painful childhood moments, Yu makes fun of himself or pulls you into a silly description of fake physics experiments. In this way, he delivers one of the most clear-eyed descriptions of consciousness I've seen in literature: It's full of self-mockery and self-deception, and yet somehow manages to keep its hands on the wheel, driving us forward into an unknowable future.

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe is intellectually demanding, but also emotionally rich and funny. It's clearly the work of a scifi geek who knows how to twist pop culture tropes into melancholy meditations on the nature of consciousness. How to Live Safely in a Science Fiction Universe is one of the trippiest and most thoughtful novels I've read all year, one that begs for a single sit-down experience even if you're left with a major head rush after the fact for having gulped down so many ideas in a solitary swoop.

Yu's literary pyrotechnics come in a marvelously entertaining and accessible package, featuring a reluctant, time machine-operating hero on a continual quest to discover what really happened to his missing father, a mysterious book possibly answering all, and a computer with the most idiosyncratic personality since HAL or Deep Thought. Like the work of Richard Powers.

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe fuses the scientific and the emotional in ways that bring about something new. It is a wonderfully stunning, brilliant work of science fiction that goes to the heart of self-realization, happiness and connections. Yu has accomplished something remarkable in this book, blending science fiction universes with his own, alternative self's life, in a way, breaking past the bonds of the page and bringing the reader right into the action.

Simply, this is one of the absolute best time travel stories.

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Wells or the Doctor Who television series. There are times when he starts off a paragraph about chronodiegetics that just sounds like pseudo-scientific gibberish meant to fill in some space. That happened more than once for me. There are so many sections here and there that I found myself wanting to share with somebody: Here—read this paragraph! Look at this sentence! Ok, now check this out! It seems Einstein was kind of an asshole.

Was the world pretty pissed off at Michael Vick? Can we also look back and say that he was pretty great on the field? Have you ever enjoyed a meal made by someone who is a jerk? Maybe had a nice make-out with someone who turned out to be a real ass? Maybe given the best years of your life, the flower of your youth, to someone who took that flower and stamped it into the dirt?

Your life might be really different. Books are different. To those of us who love books, reading something can make us feel very exposed. I think, when it comes to art, we feel a sense of culpability in identifying with artists through their work. That if someone terrible creates something, and if we find that something beautiful, there must be something wrong with us. See all the above.

Songs, meals. By that same token, you might enjoy a book written by a jerk. As for the idea of jerkiness seeping into a work Not really. What does enjoying a great work by a big bastard say about us? Not a whole lot. Liking some stuff made by jerks is normal.

We've all done it. We all do it in every aspect of our lives. Books are no different. I hate to break the bad news, but in order to find out whether or not you like a book If Author X is just too awful, if their awfulness will prevent you from enjoying a book, move on to someone else. You already know that, but sometimes it helps to hear someone say it. You can borrow a book or buy it secondhand. You could buy the book and then make a charitable donation that offsets the damage. You could buy the book and then buy two other books by people you DO like.

Sorry Please Thank You by Charles Yu - ISBN: (Random House)

Ebooks are a good answer too. Remember, Robin Hood was stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. That whole giving to the poor, redistribution of wealth thing is pretty key to the whole Robin Hood ethos. At one time, it would be ridiculous to expect anyone to actually know if an author was reprehensible. What is the obligation of readers now? What is the obligation of consumers to make use of this tool?

I can honestly say I have no earthly idea whether or not Charles Yu is a great person. Am I putting my head in the sand if I skip the process of Googling for dirt? Everyone has to draw their own line on this one. If I decided to look for things an author said or did with the goal of finding something I objected to, I could find something. And I did. Not about Charles Yu, mind you. He seems like a good dude. The domestic virtues are not the true basis of art, though they may serve as an excellent advertisement for second-rate artists.

Multiple truths. Bad people can make good stuff, and good people can make bad stuff.

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