The Reincarnationist Papers: A memoir of past lives - the account of Evan Michaels

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Evan Michaels struggles with being different, with having the complete memories of two other people who lived sequentially before him. He fights loneliness and believes he is unique until he meets Poppy. She recognizes his struggle because she is like him, except that she is much older, remembering seven consecutive lives. But there is something else she must share with Evan--she is a member of the secretive Cognomina. They are, in effect, immortals--compiling experiences and skills over lifetimes into near superhuman abilities that they have used to drive history over centuries. Nora Brightman bursts into the room, and helps Evan escape. She explains that about 500 individuals, known as the Infinites, can remember all their past lives. They're divided between two groups: the Believers, including Nora, who want to make the world better, and the Nihilists, including Bathurst, who want to exterminate all life on Earth. The Nihilists have developed weapons to prevent people from being reborn, and trap their souls inside computer chips, and they developed an egg shaped weapon that will destroy all life on Earth, although Evan (Treadway's reincarnation) stole and hid the egg during his past life. Tartaglione, Nancy (2021-07-01). " 'Infinite': Mark Wahlberg Sci-Fi Thriller To Debut On Paramount+ In Streamer's Overseas Markets". Deadline . Retrieved 2021-07-29. Rooney, David (June 10, 2021). "Mark Wahlberg in Antoine Fuqua's 'Infinite': Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on June 10, 2021 . Retrieved June 10, 2021.

Samul, Ron (April 23, 2021). "The Reincarnationist Papers Review". Library Journal . Retrieved April 28, 2021. McNary, Dave (February 12, 2019). "Chris Evans in Talks to Star in Antoine Fuqua's Past-Lives Drama 'Infinite' ". Variety. Archived from the original on September 29, 2019 . Retrieved September 21, 2019.The story was competently written. I enjoyed it and felt involved in the writing. The problem I had is that the element of "conflict" was mostly missing. Certainly, I wanted to know about this mode of existence and the society of reincarnationists. So, the question of what's going on provides some conflict, but of a minor sort. Likewise, Evan has some problems with the hedonism of his mentor, but this is minor. He also gets involved in a theft, which leaves him in a dire situation, but at the end, since he reincarnate, the situation does not seem so dire. Fleming, Mike Jr. (April 14, 2020). "Paramount Moving Mark Wahlberg-Starrer 'Infinite' To Memorial Day Weekend 2021; Antoine Fuqua & Lorenzo Di Bonaventura Discuss Challenge Of Cutting A Movie In Surreal Moment". Deadline. Archived from the original on April 25, 2020 . Retrieved April 14, 2020. Oprah Magazine lists The Reincarnationist Papers as one of 28 books to read before they are 2021’s most popular movies Kit, Borys (September 10, 2019). "Chiwetel Ejiofor to Play Villain in Mark Wahlberg Action Thriller 'Infinite' (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on September 11, 2019 . Retrieved September 21, 2019.

The premise started off well, a young man named Evan Michaels has known for many years that he is not like everyone else.

The Reincarnationist Papers by D. Eric Maikranz sounded like it was going to be right up my alley. It sounded like it had so much potential, especially being recommended for fans of The Matrix and Memento which are a couple of my favorite movies. I mean, reincarnation, different lives, secret societies, almost superpowers - that all sounds pretty cool. Plus, it's going to be adapted into a movie called Infinite, which looks to have a decent cast (including Dylan O'Brien who as far as I'm concerned is one to watch). Unfortunately, this novel just didn't work for me not matter how much I wanted it too. Much of that is due to little character development. I wasn't interested in any of the cast of characters. They were all much too thinly drawn with too many dull segues that don't matter in the long run that are too bogged down by everything from info dumps and minor details. The writing style itself wasn't for me either. It's a little too awkward and stilted in the wrong places, and it could do with another round or two of edits to make to improvements to the flow of the writing. Whereas the "intro" to The Reincarnationist Papers tells of the discovery and translation in a very truncated way, this little novella add-on goes much more in depth about that process. Instead of just a paragraph, we get several chapters. The philosophical ideas are absolutely fascinating but often come in the form of awkward dialogue and info dumping rather than more naturally fitting them into the plot.