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Lädt ... The Kingdom of Ohio (2009)von Matthew Flaming
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. I was pleasantly surprised by this book. I often choose books based on the e-book offerings at the LA Public Library. The blurb for this book talked about it including historic characters such as Nicola Tesla and Thomas Edison, and I thought back to ...., which I didn't enjoy much at all, and thought I would feel the same about this novel. Instead, it was a well written, interesting story, that read like a combination of Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose, and The DaVinci Theory. I love alternate histories, but I found myself frequently confused by this one. I had a hard time understanding where actual history should have ended and the alternate parts began, which could be a credit to the author, but was also a little annoying. (The heavily footnoted early chapters left me scratching my head and wondering if there was a part of AP US History I really did sleep through. Knowing that this couldn't actually be the case, I found myself simply annoyed that the author was trying to trick me.) And on that note, the whole voice of the narrator was a bit tedious. I found myself skimming across the current day first-person passages, wanting to get back to the more interesting third-person historic chapters. The pace of the story was a bit slow, for all the Significant Events that seemed to be going on. The conclusion of the story was satisfying enough, but I feel like the whole book could have been tightened up a bit to make getting there more exciting.
Filling the gaps with philosophical ruminations on time, storytelling and technology, Flaming pens an entertaining if not completely realized fantasy.
After discovering an old photograph, an elderly antiques dealer living in present-day Los Angeles is forced to revisit the history he has struggled to deny. The photograph depicts a man and a woman. The man is Peter Force, a young frontier adventurer who comes to New York City in 1901 and quickly lands a job digging the first subway tunnels beneath the metropolis. The woman is Cheri-Anne Toledo, a beautiful mathematical prodigy whose memories appear to come from another world. They meet seemingly by chance, and Peter initially dismisses her as crazy. But as they are drawn into a tangle of overlapping intrigues, Peter must reexamine Cheri-Anne's fantastic story. Could it be that she is telling the truth and that she has stumbled onto the most dangerous secret imaginable: the key to traveling through time? Set against the mazelike streets of New York at the dawn of the mechanical age, Peter and Cheri-Anne find themselves wrestling with the nature of history, technology, and the unfolding of time itself. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Historically, very interesting and I'm wanting to read more about Edison and Tesla and even J P Morgan. I feel like the writing is well done, the concept is intriguing, just not spaced as well as it could be? I would have been happy if this were a longer book that could have gone more in depth and earlier on to the historical aspects that got my attention. I really don't want to say more than that because I'm afraid it would spoil it for people. ( )