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Joshua V. Scher
I got through. Life's too short to force yourself to read a book you don't like, I really loved the premise, and I liked the emails, reports, letters, etc way of presenting information, What turned me away were the portions that were based on Eve's fiction novels, A page or two of excerpts would have been fine, Pages and pages of her bad writing No, Could not choke down another page, I was bored to tears and only forcing myself to read because of all the other reviews saying this book is so brilliant and for people smart enough to understand it i.
e. a challenge!.
I am all for pretentious books, I'm a bit of a book snob myself except for a few bodicerippers, But, this book did not deliver for me, It's one thing to be super smart about physics and use a gimmick writing technique, . . but, the writing overall still has to be good, I can't. Thank goodness this was a kindle first free book, I'd have felt robbed to have paid for it, Hand's down the fiction writing of Eve's novels ruined it for me,
I wanted to only read about The Reiderer Test not all that other stuff, which only made me confused and felt like I drank all that absinthe that the characters did.
I am really torn on this book, On the one hand, I think a tremendous amount of work went into the extraordinary level of detail in the novel, On the other hand, it was a hard slog to get through it and I nearly gave up a couple of times although I did read all the way to the very, very last page.
I think the reason I finally settled onis threefold, and I am going to try to be vague so as to not spoil it for anyone who hasn't read it yet.
Let me start out by saying that I don't have an issue with how the book is presented it is a combination of emails/reports, firstperson narrative, and a large report written as a narrative based on videos and other inputs.
First, there is a reveal about one of the characters partway through that I saw coming a mile away and when another reveal pops up near the end it wasn't as impactful to me as I think the author intended.
It is as if someone told you that it snowedfeet one day during the winter, and then they told you there weredays that winter when it snowedfeet.
The fact that it snowedfeet once has the larger impact, Second, the book leaves too much unresolved, Maybe I missed some clues because I spent the lastpages just trying to get to the end, and maybe I skimmed through the appendices too quickly same reason, but I wanted more closure / resolution.
Especially after wading through so much story, Lastly, the entire story can really be summarized in a page, The plot is not that complex, and I think the author believed he kept things hidden for longer than it took me to figure them out.
I certainly don't feel the plot was complicated enough to justify the novel's length, I don't like being so critical of a book that clearly had a tremendous amount of work put into it, but I felt like if the narrative gimmick had been dropped and this had been told as a straightforward story, it would have been half the length, would have moved more quickly, and would have more people finish it.
I am sure that comes off as disparaging the author's craft, but I can appreciate the work and the craftsmanship that went into the creation of an item, without liking the item.
That is how I feel here, Not so much fun is “Here amp There”North,,,pages, beginning with the fact that the protagonist lets it be known early on he cannot be relied on, He is, in fact, known for freestyle lying on an impressive scale,
To make “Here amp There” even more difficult to believe in, the primary narrator Danny does his work in footnotes to a manuscript written by his mother, Hilary and he often questions her veracity.
In fact, its all very suspicious, as supposedly Hilarys sources about the main figure in the book, a modernday cross between Leonardo daVinci and Martin Heidegger, are nanobots that can attach to clothes and cars and pretty much anything, and film and record every word and expression of the various characters.
And finally, “Here amp There” is supposed to entertain its readers by a constant set of plot twists that shift the ground of the narrative except for the fact that the narrative cant be trusted.
All of what is written about may or may not have happened, and there is no resolution at the end of thepages of difficulttoread multipage footnotes, and footnotes upon footnotes that might possibly clear things up.
And what does it mean that every member of the family at the center of the book has a name that is a palindrome Dont expect an answer.
And speaking ofpages, the editors of “Here amp There” deserve some negativity as well, At best, “Here amp There” should have been half the length, and better, aboutpages, Then, as a lean and mean teleportation machine, the long digressions about a failing marriage, Dannys doomed desire for a woman named Lorelei who may or may not have risked her life for him and another characters dull short stories, could have been eliminated.
Joshua Scher ponders the nature of being and truth, but needed much more help from his editors, and a lot less ambiguity, to give readers their moneys worth.
I try not to get angry about other people's opinions, but I can't help it in this case, People are leaving one star reviews, claiming this book doesn't make sense and nothing happens, Let me break it to those people: you are not very smart, and you should not be leaving reviews about books you didn't understand.
Stick with your John Grisham/Nora Roberts supermarket paperbacks and stop trying to tear down an author who worked hard to create something beautiful and brilliant.
As for my review, refer to the other five star reviews, I have nothing further to add, but wanted to try to counteract some of the mouth breathers "contributions, ".
e. a challenge!.
I am all for pretentious books, I'm a bit of a book snob myself except for a few bodicerippers, But, this book did not deliver for me, It's one thing to be super smart about physics and use a gimmick writing technique, . . but, the writing overall still has to be good, I can't. Thank goodness this was a kindle first free book, I'd have felt robbed to have paid for it, Hand's down the fiction writing of Eve's novels ruined it for me,
It was supposed to be a simple proof of concept, The physics were sound. Over one hundred teleportation experiments had already been successfully performed, . .
Debate rages over whether the Reidier Tests disastrous outcome resulted from human error, government conspiracy, or sabotage, No one has actual knowledge of the truth, But hidden from
the public eye, there exists a government report commissioned from criminal psychologist Dr, Hilary Kahn, chronicling the events that took place,
Dr. Kahn disappeared without a trace,
Now her son Danny has unearthed and revealed the report, fueling controversy over the details of Reidiers quest to reforge the fabric of reality and hold his family together.
Exposed with little chance of finding his mother, Danny goes underground to investigate, But nothing can prepare him for what he discovers,
In this thrilling saga, a paradigmshattering feat may alter humanitys future as quantum entanglement and teleportation collide,
I get it, Reider wears a tweed sports coat and the machinery powers up and off why do I have to read this a bajillion times The author is trying way too hard all the scientific references, footnotes, literary quotes, stories within stories, book within a book, etc.I wanted to only read about The Reiderer Test not all that other stuff, which only made me confused and felt like I drank all that absinthe that the characters did.
I am really torn on this book, On the one hand, I think a tremendous amount of work went into the extraordinary level of detail in the novel, On the other hand, it was a hard slog to get through it and I nearly gave up a couple of times although I did read all the way to the very, very last page.
I think the reason I finally settled onis threefold, and I am going to try to be vague so as to not spoil it for anyone who hasn't read it yet.
Let me start out by saying that I don't have an issue with how the book is presented it is a combination of emails/reports, firstperson narrative, and a large report written as a narrative based on videos and other inputs.
First, there is a reveal about one of the characters partway through that I saw coming a mile away and when another reveal pops up near the end it wasn't as impactful to me as I think the author intended.
It is as if someone told you that it snowedfeet one day during the winter, and then they told you there weredays that winter when it snowedfeet.
The fact that it snowedfeet once has the larger impact, Second, the book leaves too much unresolved, Maybe I missed some clues because I spent the lastpages just trying to get to the end, and maybe I skimmed through the appendices too quickly same reason, but I wanted more closure / resolution.
Especially after wading through so much story, Lastly, the entire story can really be summarized in a page, The plot is not that complex, and I think the author believed he kept things hidden for longer than it took me to figure them out.
I certainly don't feel the plot was complicated enough to justify the novel's length, I don't like being so critical of a book that clearly had a tremendous amount of work put into it, but I felt like if the narrative gimmick had been dropped and this had been told as a straightforward story, it would have been half the length, would have moved more quickly, and would have more people finish it.
I am sure that comes off as disparaging the author's craft, but I can appreciate the work and the craftsmanship that went into the creation of an item, without liking the item.
That is how I feel here, Not so much fun is “Here amp There”North,,,pages, beginning with the fact that the protagonist lets it be known early on he cannot be relied on, He is, in fact, known for freestyle lying on an impressive scale,
To make “Here amp There” even more difficult to believe in, the primary narrator Danny does his work in footnotes to a manuscript written by his mother, Hilary and he often questions her veracity.
In fact, its all very suspicious, as supposedly Hilarys sources about the main figure in the book, a modernday cross between Leonardo daVinci and Martin Heidegger, are nanobots that can attach to clothes and cars and pretty much anything, and film and record every word and expression of the various characters.
And finally, “Here amp There” is supposed to entertain its readers by a constant set of plot twists that shift the ground of the narrative except for the fact that the narrative cant be trusted.
All of what is written about may or may not have happened, and there is no resolution at the end of thepages of difficulttoread multipage footnotes, and footnotes upon footnotes that might possibly clear things up.
And what does it mean that every member of the family at the center of the book has a name that is a palindrome Dont expect an answer.
And speaking ofpages, the editors of “Here amp There” deserve some negativity as well, At best, “Here amp There” should have been half the length, and better, aboutpages, Then, as a lean and mean teleportation machine, the long digressions about a failing marriage, Dannys doomed desire for a woman named Lorelei who may or may not have risked her life for him and another characters dull short stories, could have been eliminated.
Joshua Scher ponders the nature of being and truth, but needed much more help from his editors, and a lot less ambiguity, to give readers their moneys worth.
I try not to get angry about other people's opinions, but I can't help it in this case, People are leaving one star reviews, claiming this book doesn't make sense and nothing happens, Let me break it to those people: you are not very smart, and you should not be leaving reviews about books you didn't understand.
Stick with your John Grisham/Nora Roberts supermarket paperbacks and stop trying to tear down an author who worked hard to create something beautiful and brilliant.
As for my review, refer to the other five star reviews, I have nothing further to add, but wanted to try to counteract some of the mouth breathers "contributions, ".