Alaa Qui

Hello Everyone,  Today I am going to talk about a book I read back in 2020, and it has left such a strong impression on me since then. This book is ' The Test ' by  Sylvain Neuvel . The  emotions I went through reading this book are the same as to when I am watching an episode of Black Mirror. The whole situation is so messed up, but not impossible to see happening in the future (not necessarily near future). Even-though it is a short book, the author succeeds at making me care about the characters and root for them. It was painful reading about what Idir has to go through, especially considering he is a good person. He did not deserve what happens to him in that test. I love the brief discussion on ethics and human psychology, and I think I would have loved the book even more if the author went deeper. "When faced with a choice, humans almost invariably seek a no-action, no-change option, even when one of the presented alternatives is quantifiably and logically more advan