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Question about the book?

posted 14 years ago by thenewgoblin07
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So the visions they see in the book, do they come true?

[–] nebedren 13 years ago

It's a lot like in the show actually: some come true, some are very similar and some are completely different.

I WASN'T FINISHED READING IT.

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1 Dominic Monaghan
2 Jeffery Donovan
3 Callum Rennie
4 Misha Collins
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[–] jerrybob1978-1 13 years ago

I stoped watching the show, I lost interest. I finished the book, yesterday. The book was much better. The show should have been more like the book. In the book, the flash forward goes from 2009 to 2030. With help from a cop, the man who died found the man who died found the man who killed him. They even realised that the future was not set in stone.

[–] indistinguishable 13 years ago

About the book, I'm curious about something. I read a 2007 edition of the novel. In it, the pope is Benedict XVI. But the first edition is from 2001, when the pope John Paul II was still alive. So I've asked (via Twitter) Robert J. Sawyer about it, if he had updated the book for later editions. He said: "No, I just guessed right". But even he could have guessed that Joseph Ratzinger would be the next pope, I had now way to know that Ratzinger would use "Benedict XVI" as his stage name. May be Sawyer made fun on me after all. Anyone else noticed this in the book?

[–] Mexiward 13 years ago

Maybe he had a Flashforward

[–] indistinguishable 13 years ago

by - Mexiward

Maybe he had a Flashforward

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[–] rohonnag 10 years ago

I have NO idea how he has correctly guessed a LOT of things in the book

he mentions star wars 9 part series, though he says lucas hasn't finished it, but the last 3 parts are being made now...

thats freaky, more freaky is the pope thing, how did he guess that right ?

i also thought it was a revised edition, till someone told me, it was a proper reprint, nothing updated...

maybe he dreamt of his own future and got the idea of a flashforward :)

It has happened to me... the dreams coming of insane new ideas...

An Idea is the most resilient parasite - Inception

[–] jerrybob1978-1 8 years ago

If they were true to the story of the book, then it should have been a movie.