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A review by randomcarpediem
Final Theory by Mark Alpert
1.0
The one thing that attracted me to this book was the science. I love to read about Einstein and his theories. While there is a spattering of physics throughout the book there is not enough to save the book.
Right from the beginning I kept thinking this book is just like Mark Brown's "The Da Vinci Code" except it is based on physics and not art and religion and is even lamer. The main character of "Final Theory" is a professor who specializes in the history of physics and he has written a book about all the great people in the physics' world. He is asked to go to the hospital to see a dying physicist and before the man expires he gives David Swift a set of numbers that are a key to Einstein's "Theory of Everything".
After receiving the set of seemingly random numbers David's life is quickly swept into a world containing FBI agents, terrorists, other physicists, and brutal killings; this world is so unrealistic that it makes you cringe. David has to figure out what the set of numbers mean and he has to save the world at the same time; of course he has the help of an attractive female physicist.
The situations in the book are so implausible that most of the time I shook my head and thought, seriously, life is not like this at all. The only redeemable part of the book is the tiny bit of science in it, but not enough to give the book more than one star.
Right from the beginning I kept thinking this book is just like Mark Brown's "The Da Vinci Code" except it is based on physics and not art and religion and is even lamer. The main character of "Final Theory" is a professor who specializes in the history of physics and he has written a book about all the great people in the physics' world. He is asked to go to the hospital to see a dying physicist and before the man expires he gives David Swift a set of numbers that are a key to Einstein's "Theory of Everything".
After receiving the set of seemingly random numbers David's life is quickly swept into a world containing FBI agents, terrorists, other physicists, and brutal killings; this world is so unrealistic that it makes you cringe. David has to figure out what the set of numbers mean and he has to save the world at the same time; of course he has the help of an attractive female physicist.
The situations in the book are so implausible that most of the time I shook my head and thought, seriously, life is not like this at all. The only redeemable part of the book is the tiny bit of science in it, but not enough to give the book more than one star.