This is a very interesting book...
Our main character is producing a study on human decision-making. It starts off with an MRI and then goes forward to telling you that you have to make a decision between three boxes. One of the boxes will have $1,000,000 in it, one of the boxes will have $1,000 in it, and the other box will have nothing. We do not know which box has what. In a week's time the main character must come back and make their decision. During this time the main character has to sit in jury duty in a case involving manslaughter. Throughout the week as they are serving jury duty they sit and ponder on the human decision-making process. Okay first off, this book is very heavy on the scientific and legal terms and jargon. It also has extremely long-winded descriptions which make it difficult to make your choices when you are choosing your own adventure. I think that shorter descriptions and choices would have been preferable. I also want to point out that this book is extremely difficult to enjoy the way that it was supposed to be enjoyed, in ebook format. Obviously it's a little more difficult to flip through the pages when there are no pages to flip through. That really kind of killed the experience for me. 😞 However this book is definitely well-researched. The entire book is very much your own study in human decision-making which I think was exactly what the author was trying to convey and, if that is so, he does it very well. Overall this is a very interesting book. Not quite sure if I liked the choose-your-own-adventure aspect but I didn't hate it either. I most definitely did not enjoy this book as an ebook but would have preferred a paper copy. And I would recommend this in paper copy form to those who like a little bit of literary fiction.
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