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A review by duartepatri
Cold Fusion 2000 by Karl Drinkwater
5.0
I have to be honest, if you ask me what genre this book is, then I have no idea. If you ask me if I liked it, then the answer is yes, did I love it from the beginning? no, at first I was annoyed and frustrated, Alex was such a pompous smartass that I could have slapped him senseless.
I kept thinking a few things along the way, one, that I must be a total ignorant because there were several moments when I felt totally outsmarted, the whole physics thing was a bit too much at times, another thing that kept me thinking was the whole back to the late 1900's feeling, reading about what we used to have, slow (crappy) computers, the first mobile phones, the whole Y2K thingy, and I could go on and on and on....I am part of that generation and it felt like a Back to the Future trip, it was great to see how much Alex foresaw and how much technology has evolved in such a short period of time. Apart from that there was this Jane/Lucy thing, if I have to be real honest I think I should re read it, the ending was sad and it revealed something that I felt was not possible, I am not sure if I got it right, I told you, this book is way smarter than the average and I think I understood one thing when in fact it went deeper and more complicated...I cannot give away the plot but I thought that the whole identical twins plot plus the ghostly scenes were a bit far fetched, once I was finished I thought, why did Jane go to Manchester in the first place? Was the blurb of the book right or there was a hidden truth, Jane had to leave ok, but why? is it because she had a family or because she knew what the future awaited for her? Was that little bit at the end the whole book revelation?
And to finish with this, I had the last recurring thought, I kept wondering how much of it was fiction and how much was the author's life, he wrote this very difficult book that even had a super difficult questionnaire at the end which by the way, I couldn't answer, lol! so I have had that feeling during the whole book, and that was that there might be some real thing behind this book...if there was not, then, this book is even more brilliant because we were under the skin of a very complex character.
I also thought of Sheldon Cooper a lot. lol!
I kept thinking a few things along the way, one, that I must be a total ignorant because there were several moments when I felt totally outsmarted, the whole physics thing was a bit too much at times, another thing that kept me thinking was the whole back to the late 1900's feeling, reading about what we used to have, slow (crappy) computers, the first mobile phones, the whole Y2K thingy, and I could go on and on and on....I am part of that generation and it felt like a Back to the Future trip, it was great to see how much Alex foresaw and how much technology has evolved in such a short period of time. Apart from that there was this Jane/Lucy thing, if I have to be real honest I think I should re read it, the ending was sad and it revealed something that I felt was not possible, I am not sure if I got it right, I told you, this book is way smarter than the average and I think I understood one thing when in fact it went deeper and more complicated...I cannot give away the plot but I thought that the whole identical twins plot plus the ghostly scenes were a bit far fetched, once I was finished I thought, why did Jane go to Manchester in the first place? Was the blurb of the book right or there was a hidden truth, Jane had to leave ok, but why? is it because she had a family or because she knew what the future awaited for her? Was that little bit at the end the whole book revelation?
And to finish with this, I had the last recurring thought, I kept wondering how much of it was fiction and how much was the author's life, he wrote this very difficult book that even had a super difficult questionnaire at the end which by the way, I couldn't answer, lol! so I have had that feeling during the whole book, and that was that there might be some real thing behind this book...if there was not, then, this book is even more brilliant because we were under the skin of a very complex character.
I also thought of Sheldon Cooper a lot. lol!