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Goodbye for Now - Laurie Frankel
Goodbye for Now
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In the spirit of ONE DAY, comes a fresh and warmhearted love story for the 21st century. Sometimes the end is just the beginning . . . Sam Elling works for an internet dating company, but he still can't get a date. So he creates an algorithm that will match you with your soul mate. Sam meets the... show more
In the spirit of ONE DAY, comes a fresh and warmhearted love story for the 21st century. Sometimes the end is just the beginning . . . Sam Elling works for an internet dating company, but he still can't get a date. So he creates an algorithm that will match you with your soul mate. Sam meets the love of his life, a coworker named Meredith, but he also gets fired when the company starts losing all their customers to Mr. and Ms. Right.When Meredith's grandmother, Livvie, dies suddenly, Sam uses his ample free time to create a computer program that will allow Meredith to have one last conversation with her grandmother. Mining from all her correspondence—email, Facebook, Skype, texts—Sam constructs a computer simulation of Livvie who can respond to email or video chat just as if she were still alive. It's not supernatural, it's computer science.Meredith loves it, and the couple begins to wonder if this is something that could help more people through their grief. And thus, the company RePose is born. The business takes off, but for every person who just wants to say good-bye, there is someone who can't let go. In the meantime, Sam and Meredith's affection for one another deepens into the kind of love that once tasted, you can't live without. But what if one of them suddenly had to? This entertaining novel, delivers a charming and bittersweet romance as well as a lump in the throat exploration of the nature of love, loss, and life (both real and computer simulated). Maybe nothing was meant to last forever, but then again, sometimes love takes on a life of its own.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780385536189 (0385536186)
Publisher: Doubleday
Pages no: 289
Edition language: English
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ellaminnowpea
ellaminnowpea rated it
There is a difference between a book that is sad because it thoughtfully explores a sad topic and a book that feels emotionally manipulative because it just throws a lot sad events in your face and tells you how sad they are. Whether a book comes down to one of or the other is, I think, a matter of ...
The Aussie Zombie
The Aussie Zombie rated it
3.0 Goodbye for Now
What if you could have one last conversation with someone you loved that has passed away? Knowing that it's not 'really' that person, but just a computer stimulation built up from your previous electronic communications, would you still want to see their face again, tell them you loved them one more...
FletchTO
FletchTO rated it
1.0 Goodbye for Now
Couldn't get into it and abandoned it :(
Great Imaginations
Great Imaginations rated it
4.0 Goodbye for Now
If my husband died, would I want someone to create a program for me so I could talk to him via video chat or email, even in death? I'm not sure about the answer to that question, but that is how Sam's service works. Now mind you, you are not REALLY talking to your loved one, but an algorithm that pu...
BookHounds
BookHounds rated it
5.0 Goodbye for Now
MY THOUGHTSABSOLUTELY LOVED ITComputer programming genius Sam has written THE perfect script for his job at an internet dating site. The only problem: it is too perfect and threatens to put the company out of business since it can match you up with the love of your life with one try. He gets fire...
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