A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
Book 2 - The Carls

A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor

A Novel

    • 4.5 • 276 Ratings
    • $12.99
    • $12.99

Publisher Description

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Who has the right to change the world forever? 

How will we live online? 
How do we find comfort in an increasingly isolated world?
 
The Carls disappeared the same way they appeared, in an instant. While the robots were on Earth, they caused confusion and destruction with only their presence. Part of their maelstrom was the sudden viral fame and untimely death of April May: a young woman who stumbled into Carl’s path, giving them their name, becoming their advocate, and putting herself in the middle of an avalanche of conspiracy theories. 
 
Months later, April’s friends are trying to find their footing in a post-Carl world. Andy has picked up April’s mantle of fame, speaking at conferences and online; Maya, ravaged by grief, begins to follow a string of mysteries that she is convinced will lead her to April; and Miranda is contemplating defying her friends’ advice and pursuing a new scientific operation…one that might have repercussions beyond anyone’s comprehension. Just as it is starting to seem like the gang may never learn the real story behind the events that changed their lives forever, a series of clues arrive—mysterious books that seem to predict the future and control the actions of their readers—all of which seems to suggest that April could be very much alive.
 
In the midst of the search for the truth and the search for April is a growing force, something that wants to capture our consciousness and even control our reality. A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor is the bold and brilliant follow-up to An Absolutely Remarkable Thing. It is a fast-paced adventure that is also a biting social commentary, asking hard, urgent questions about the way we live, our freedoms, our future, and how we handle the unknown.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2020
July 7
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
464
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Publishing Group
SELLER
PENGUIN GROUP USA, INC.
SIZE
4.2
MB

Customer Reviews

Jojopig44 ,

Wow

A fantastic modern allegory.

Mickel Murphy ,

A take on the growing human situation

I did genuinely enjoy this book. I am giving it a 4, because I gave the first book a 5 and I cannot say I enjoyed it better. There are times when sometimes it felt a bit much and dragged on, but there were also times when you were forced to rethink how we view our world, just as An Absolutely Remarkable Thing did (if not more). I would say where the last assessed human's connection with social media, this one assessed our relationship to reality; our relationship to other humans, to the internet and to our minds. How we can rely on one thing so much that it becomes everything to us. I think in the current climate of our world, this is a very important read. (p.s. this book is probably 70% more interesting on audiobook).

MinTsai ,

Captivating

Ummmm I don’t usually read for fun but I finished this book in a day?!

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