Reddit reviews Wild Thing: A Novel (A Dr. Pietro Brnwa Novel)
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> Since the face of Violet’s watch is still glowing, she decides to calculate the temperature using cricket noises, something her father taught her how to do when she was twelve, and at least gives you an answer in metric. By cricket it’s ten degrees centigrade out. By conversion: fifty degrees Fahrenheit. It gets her off the porch. Whatever’s out there is better than thinking about this bullshit.
You can read the rest in the book which is a sequel to Beat the Reaper, but you don't really need to read the first book first (but I think it is the better of the two).
There are apparently at least two versions of Wild Thing, as the image above says "Violet decides that while her watch face is still glowing,", but in the Kindle version, the line after "because you can't directly relate any of those quantities." is the one I quoted above. So, I don't actually know what happens to her watch. It could be in that version aliens step out from behind a bush and kidnap her. Who knows.
Another difference comes before the main quote: "[Being raised, as Violet was, without the] metric system is like being raised with a harness on your brain." In the Kindle version, it says "Being raised, as Violet was, without the metric system is like being raised without Vitamin D. Whatever the fuck rickets are, it gives you the mental version of them."
I wonder if the image is from an early draft or something.
I believe this is from a book called Wild Thing: A Novel by Josh Bazell
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The book Wild thing by Josh Bazell. I haven't read it myself.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8417995-in-metric-one-milliliter-of-water-occupies-one-cubic-centimeter
https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Thing-Novel-Josh-Bazell/dp/0316032204/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1549387175&sr=8-1&keywords=wild+thing+josh+bazell
I thought I recognized this. It's from Wild Thing by Josh Bazell. It's the sequel to Beat the Reaper but honestly not anywhere as good. Beat the Reaper was a fun read though. Kind of a satirical crime thriller. Reads like a mixture of Hiaasen and Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash. With lots of swearing - which is a little juvenile - and some thinly-veiled social commentary. Overall I'd recommend it if you're stuck in an airport or need something engaging while on vacation.
http://www.amazon.com/Wild-Thing-Novel-Josh-Bazell/dp/0316032204
Source: http://www.amazon.com/Wild-Thing-Novel-Josh-Bazell/dp/0316032204
Wild Thing by Josh Bazell
Wild Thing by Josh Bazell