by Matthew Pearl
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...
This is a hefty historical (496 pages) with a good chunk of nerdiness, a big cast, and a lovely mix of fantasy and fact. Set in the late 1860s, the story follows the first class of MIT -- the Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- while the city of Boston is being plagued by bizarre disasters. I...
I've been intrigued by Matthew Pearl for a while - I actually own both 'The Dante Club' and 'The Poe Shadow' and have been planning on reading them - but I got an ARC of his latest, so it went to the top of the list. Well, eh, I might have been a little overexcited.This wasn't a bad book, but it was...
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