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| Title | : | Making History |
| Author | : | Stephen Fry |
| Book Format | : | Kindle Edition |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 594 pages |
| Published | : | July 1st 2018 by Soho Press (first published October 22nd 1996) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Science Fiction. Alternate History. Historical. Historical Fiction. Time Travel |
Stephen Fry
Kindle Edition | Pages: 594 pages Rating: 3.95 | 9227 Users | 574 Reviews
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In Making History, Fry has bitten off a rather meaty chunk by tackling an at first deceptively simple premise: What if Hitler had never been born? An unquestionable improvement, one would reason--and so an earnest history grad student and an aging German physicist idealistically undertake to bring this about by preventing Adolf's conception. And with their success is launched a brave new world that is in some ways better than ours--but in most ways even worse. Fry's experiment in history makes for his most ambitious novel yet, and his most affecting. His first book to be set mostly in America, it is a thriller with a funny streak, a futuristic fantasy based on one of mankind's darkest realities. It is, in every sense, a story of our times.
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| Original Title: | Making History ASIN B00LKIBYC4 |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Michael Young, Leo Zuckerman, Axel Bauer, Rudolph Gloder |
| Literary Awards: | Sidewise Award for Long Form (1998) |
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Ratings: 3.95 From 9227 Users | 574 ReviewsNotice Epithetical Books Making History
Although it took me a while to get into it (the beginning of the book is slow), I greatly enjoyed "Making History". Fry manages to take a well-discussed topic and a well-known (even worn) idea, and shape them into a funny and insightful story. Mostly, I'm amazed by his ability to meaningfully discuss such a complex and heavy topic, and still leave me with a smile on my face.While I didn't like Fry's writing style and his peculiar protagonist at first, I learned to love them both by the end ofThis is the first time Ive picked up a Stephen Fry novel, and it was an enjoyable, if slightly uneven, experience. Thumbing through the opening pages, I noticed that this book was first published in 1996, which begins to make sense when considering some of the faultlines running through this alternate history offering. The book is an intriguing premise two men decide, for very different reasons, to tamper with history by ensuring the one man responsible for the rise of Nazi Germany is never
Loved this book from the first page, Stephen Fry has a wonderful turn of phrase and the way, which is so easy to read.The story is different take on time travel and results in history being worse after the first bout of time travel than it originally was. However all things end up as they should by the end, or do they?At times it was very funny, at other times quite serious, but a great read overall.
The book started well enough, young chap at Cambridge (Fry's alma mater) immersed in the history of Hitler, working towards spending his life at Cambridge in a paid capacity, is having a tough time with his hard-nosed scientist girlfriend who finally leaves him (I found her more interesting than our hero, stronger, and more capable of carrying a story, and was sorry to see her go). Young man makes a hash of his thesis, dissertation, whatever, by being way too inventive for historical research,
There are not so many books which manage to get in your head in such a way that you ask yourself all those questions even though you know you won't get an answer. And it does so in such a light way filled with humor but it talks about topics darker than the night sky. What if Hitler had never been born? Would have this world been a Utopia or would it be even worse? Is there always a worse possibility? And should we ever, if given the chance, tamper with time and past events and what not? What
This was clearly not a success for me. Especially the literary level was very low: weakly portraited, one-dimensional characters, an occasional exciting moment but a lot of very boring moments, especially in the passages that have been written as a film script, and a really really dull final. The only interesting approach is that Fry tries to imagine what the consequences would be of attempts to change history, but even that is poorly executed. As a novel this does not exceed the level of cheap
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