{"id":1678,"date":"2022-06-11T16:41:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T22:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baskervillebookreviews.com\/?p=1678"},"modified":"2022-06-11T16:41:23","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T22:41:23","slug":"the-last-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baskervillebookreviews.com\/the-last-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Last Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul><li>Title:<ul><li>The Last Conversation<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Author:<ul><li>Paul Tremblay<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Release:<ul><li>September 17, 2019<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Format:<ul><li>Audiobook<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Narrator:<ul><li>Steven Strait<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Series:<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/baskervillebookreviews.com\/the-forward-collection\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"226\">The Forward Collection<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Forward Collection is something I discovered in late 2019 or early 2020 when I first started listening to more Audiobooks. It\u2019s a 6 book series written by 6 different authors about possible futures, curated by Blake Crouch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/baskervillebookreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/maxresdefault-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/baskervillebookreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/maxresdefault-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/baskervillebookreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/maxresdefault-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/baskervillebookreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/maxresdefault-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/baskervillebookreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/maxresdefault.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The description for this story is a perfect example of why I dislike reading summaries before reading a book. It manages to give crucial plot details (kinda hard not to, with a story this short), and it misleads you. The voice in the darkness never once denies or implies that they don&#8217;t want to know who they are. the entire story is about remembering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a difficult story to talk about without spoilers. I&#8217;m glad I&#8217;d forgotten what the plot was, as I found I enjoyed the revelation more for it. It doesn&#8217;t take long for the story to give you enough info to guess the ending, but I found the ending no less impactful for it. It reminds me a lot of the movie Source Code and raises the question; What does it mean to be human?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As with any Forward Collection story, I recommend it and I found the narrator to be excellent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Audible narration by Steven Strait (The Expanse)<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s more frightening: Not knowing who you are? Or finding out? A Bram Stoker Award-winning author explores the answer in a chilling story about identity and human consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine you\u2019ve woken up in an unfamiliar room with no memory of who you are, how you got there, or where you were before. All you have is the disconnected voice of an attentive caretaker. Dr. Kuhn is there to help you &#8211; physically, emotionally, and psychologically. She\u2019ll help you remember everything. She\u2019ll make sure you reclaim your lost identity. Now answer one question: Are you sure you want to?<\/p>\n<p>Paul Tremblay\u2019s The Last Conversation is part of Forward, a collection of six stories of the near and far future from out-of-this-world authors. Each piece can be read or listened to in a single thought-provoking sitting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[315,370,26,13,12,105,115,395,157,166,76,369,114],"tags":[318,21,137,423,390,9,101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baskervillebookreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baskervillebookreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baskervillebookreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baskervillebookreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baskervillebookreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baskervillebookreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1680,"href":"https:\/\/baskervillebookreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions\/1680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baskervillebookreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baskervillebookreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baskervillebookreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baskervillebookreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}