The Technologists
by:
Matthew Pearl (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781846550867 (1846550866)
Publish date: February 23rd 2012
Publisher: Harvill Secker
Pages no: 480
Edition language: English
Thoughts: Reading The Technologists by Matthew Pearl is a great reminder why cross-genre novels are popular these days. The appeal of a novel that is more than a mystery, more than a thriller, and more than a work of historical fiction creates a fairly broad reader base. Not only that, but it create...
This book is an adventure mystery, inflated by steampunk science fiction, spiced with occasional thrills, and wrapped in a polished thin veneer of historical fiction. It's the story of a group of technology students who set out to reverse-engineer some acts of terrorism that are taking place in the ...
Bland proses. Enuff said.
Rating: one ill-tempered star (p54)I gave up on this boring, clanking, juddering steampunk-lite edifice of rusty cogs and leaking pipes when I read one character from MIT's first graduating class saying to another that their technological age had an engine but no engineer. (A quote from Emerson.)Ugh...
One fine day, when the compasses on all the ships in Boston Harbor went haywire......and a while later, all the glass (on Bank Street) melted.....it became obvious that “something was up”, and not just the skyit’s 1868...shortly after the Civil WarThe first class of THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TE...
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