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But What If We Re Wrong By Jon Klosterman

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“But what if we're wrong” has an interesting plot and timeline. The book does not have any characters or an actual story being told throughout it. The book is almost an informative novel talking about life and how we interpret it. The central argument of the book is how we will look at life today as if we were in the past. Klosterman then goes deeper in that argument, expressing how us of the future will look back at our life and innovations. The book is formatted in a way to really help the reader understand the point Klosterman is trying to portray. The book starts with background information about our life and some of the past that influenced it. Klosterman then divides the book up into different sections, where he dives deeper into
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