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But tinkering with timelines is more dangerous than they can imagine, and nothing – past, present or future – will ever be the same again.
But tinkering with time lines is more dangerous than they can imagine, and nothing - past, present or future - will ever be the same again.I liked the clever set and the inventive selection of music to accompany scene transitions - music that helped to set a mood or to underscore the action. I should say, one thing I am indecently proud of is that I invented the iPad 15 years before it arrived. The pages of Making History cackle with a distinctly British flavor ("Theater is dead but sometimes I like to go watch the corpse decompose.
He has hosted over 180 episodes of QI, and has narrated all seven of the Harry Potter novels for the audiobook recordings. He gives up his career in academia, figuring he can at least make some money "writing" the songs that he remembers from the previous reality. All in all, it’s an interesting book with an interesting premise and if you enjoy alternate histories, I highly recommend it. In that case, in the 1990s there should have still been a big number of sad old and middle aged Jews with no progeny, and the Nazis could not have kept them completely hidden from the world. It was written really well, but not something I would have engaged with if it had been by any other author.
I remembering thinking it would be rather sort of cheating to say that I was Jewish, as if that gave me a special right – but of course, in a sense, it does. The writing is pretty fast moving -- heaps of details that make me feel like he's writing for a film, plus some sections where it's written like a film dialogue (not really sure why he's used this).
Thus resolving one of the burning questions surrounding time travel: if it’s possible, why do we still have Hitler? The second change was that the story suddenly changed a gear when the two plots crossed, and when we get to read Fry's conjectured alternate reality, which is not as, erm, peachy as the simple solution erasing Hitler's existence from the 20th century may seem.
Making History is an entirely ambitious book, and while it was entertaining, it did have some pacing issues at the beginning particularly.