ch 1: Harry dies and then comes back to life. Turns out he's not the only one. when he's about to die in his 11th life in 1996, a little girl comes along and tells him the world is ending. This is a message that has been passed down in this manner for a thousand years.
ch 2: Harry is a bastard child. The product of a rape who's mother died in child birth. He didn't know any of this during his first life because he was adopted by the Augusts who work on the rapist's land and raised him as their own and was provided for by the rapist's sister. Did I mention the rapist was rich? Harry died in 1989 in his first life.
ch 3: In general, people do not handle circular life very well. Harry certainly did not. In his second life he was commited when he was 7 years old and commited suicide shortly after.
ch 4: give or take a bit, Mrs. August dies when Harry is 7 every life. In his 3rd life he comes to the relization that the lord of the manner that his parents work at is his father.
ch 5: Harry was in world war 2, like most men his age. in his first life he volunteered and in his third life he got drafted and became a plane mechanic. The main difference between those experiences is that in his third life he tried to learn things that would be useful in the next.
ch 6: in his fourth life harry became a doctor mostly so he can study himself. He fell in love with a lady surgen named jenny and when he was 57, made the mistake of telling her the truth. He ended up in the same asylum he did as a child in his second life.
ch 7: being in an asylum sucks
ch 8: it probably sucks less now than it did in the 1960s where they did whatever they wanted to you.
ch 9: in his 7th life he saw jenny again at a medical conference and tried to have an affair with her.
ch 10: Back to his time in the asylum in his 4th life. A new doctor comes along and tells Harry that the old doctor has been fired. He's now free to contact his wife. Maybe sue the old doctor so she can make some money off of Harry's suffering. The new doctor believes Harry and wants him to help who he refers to as "the good guys" with what he knows. Then he tells him about a group called the chronus club. A group of people like Harry that get together periodically. The big question, if they exist, is what they do.
ch 11-16: i read these all at once. Harry travels around the world in life 3 trying to find religious answers to his whole deal. He doesn't. but he does have chinese intelligence threaten to kill him. Back to life 4 where a British intelligence,a man named phearson, dopes him up with drugs and interrogates him in a thoroughly unpleasant manner.
ch 17: in life 6 Harry gets into physics. Has a PHD at 23, gets invited to the manhattan project. Is throughly dissatisfied with the food and heating in the first half of his life. Talks to an undergrad about timetravel for half the chapter.
ch 18: back to being tortured by phearson
ch 19: harry writes a letter to his wife saying he loves her. He also writes a letter to a friend asking him to put an ad in the paper requesting assistance from the Chronus club.
ch 20: A lady comes from the Chronus club to "save" Harry. She says to meet her on july 1st 2 pm trafalger square. She hands him a pen knife he uses to kill himself
ch 21: In life 3 when harry is aware that the lord of the manner is his biological father he goes to church a lot and he had a couple childhood churtch related conversations with his biological father. He thinks maybe his father is also a life repeater, maybe these things are genetic. But he dares not ask him.
ch 22: In his fifth life, Harry is very sad. Mostly because he is suffering from PTSD of being tortured in his 4th life. He writes a letter to his biological father telling his torture story but as if it happened during world war 1.
Ch 23: He gets drafted into the army in 1939, but he's got that meeting iwth the lady from the Chronus club in 1940, so he becomes a draft dodger. The meet happens and he's very happy to have found someone else like him.
ch 24: Virginia is the lady's name. She talks him through the whole deal of the Chronus club.
ch 25: Every now and then some Kalachakra (That's what the multi-lifers call themselves) tries to use their knowledge to "fix" the world and it's often a disater. One such incident was caused by a man named Viktor Hoeness. He decided the french king could make the world a better place if given knowledge of the future. This starts out kinda bad cause it involves the French taking over mostof Europe through violent war but ends up much worse with all this future knowledge resutling in a Nuclear war in the early 1900s.
ch 26: The big problem with this as far as the Kalachara are concerend is that this interfered with the future birth of Kalachara. If a Kalacahra dies, no big deal, they come back and do it all again. But if something happens such that a Kalachara is not born, then there is no next time. This is a big no no. Also explained in this chapter is that Kalachara can simply forget they've had past lives. Also something that can happen is that a Kalachara gets tortured to death so much so that it renders them ineffectual in the next life. They tried this with Viktor Hoeness. But after a few lifetimes this wears off. So the Kalachara went back and made it so that Viktor Hoeness was never born. Virginia also talks about how some Kalachara just forget their previous lives.
Ch 27: The news that really disturbs Harry is that Kalachara can forget. It makes him wonder if he really remembers his previous lives or if he is just kinda trying to fill it in with his imagination. I also wonder if he's actually lived many more lives than he currently thinks and he has forgotten the previous ones.
ch 28: Harry is arguing with his undergrad about time travel. Harry gets really into it and slips up and starts to talk about future techology, and undergrad is all "OMG, you're Chronus club." and then he punches him a couple times
ch 29: In his 12th life, Harry gathers up the Chronus Club (all of them, quite the site to see) to pass on the message he was given. Unfortunately,they don't have much to go on as to what they should pass to the past.
ch 30: This chapter is about a time when Harry killed a man that was serial murdering sex workers. Or he tried. The man ended up stabbing him and Harry died.
ch 31: Harry gives a message to a dying man that the world is ending. His reponse: Excellent, something new to talk about.
ch 32: Harry uses his future knowledge to create a HUGE investment company. So he's got all the money he needs to do whatever he wants.
ch 33: Another thing Harry uses his HUGE investment company to seek out people that are ahead of their time. He finds a company in East Germany that is developing radios that are using techology from 13 years in the future. Having bought the comapny, he can go there and ask questions. The guy that is credited for the invention that is futuristic tells Harry that he spent some time in Russia and learned what he needed there to create the advanced radio. The man that he said was gonna change the world was named Vitali Karpenko. So Harry goes to Russia to find this man assuming he's the cause of the end of the world.
ch 34: Harry reminises about his many past lives and gets on a train to Leningrad.
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