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Stephen Fry : MakingHistory before purchasing it in order to gage whether or not itwould be worth my time, and all praised Making History:

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. I wanted so muchto like this book... it was not to be.By ScrodSpoiler alert. Ireally like this genre of fiction and was quite excited about thepremise of the book. The author's writing style made we want to putthe book down after a chapter or two but I read it through. Iparticularly didn't like the dialog from the main character. Do youremember how Forrest Gump goes through the many ways to prepareshrimp? It is clever. Once. The author had passages that broke myimmersion with the story and rambled as if he were discussingpossible shrimp dishes. My thought was "why am I reading this? Ireally don't care about this and it isn't adding to the story."Flip to the next page... still shrimp... next page.. still shrimp..next page back to the story. It was frustrating. I kept thinkingGET TO IT MAN! I guess I really didn't like the main character anddidn't find his transformation plausible.The second third of thebook settled down. But the introduction of the film script stylewas yet another immersion breaking distraction that added nothingto the book. I do in fact understand the story. I get that this ismore than an alternative history. It is a story set with analternative history. The author goes into great detail about thesource of the alternative history up until the late 20's. Great. Heshows the divergence in several ways. Great. But what are theactual results of alternative history? Germany developed techfaster and took over the world. The end. Where was the detail aboutthe new societies after the divergence? There was some of coursebut it was so lacking. I didn't like the geographic jump toPrinceton, but OK I will play along. The new American government,and how it behaves, could be a a rich vein. Nope. Simple values inthe US from around the 50's. Did the main character need toliterally tell me these differences?The authors description of thealternate future society is filled with music and movie references.OK I get it. Instead of getting deeper into the culture lets justtalk movie references. Repeatedly. Not references that actuallyapply to the situation mind your. Not something that clarifies thesituation. List of movies that don't exist now. Good god it'sshrimp time again. When Young arrives in the alternate version oftime he replaces himself there. OK. He did in fact exist thereprior to his consciousness arrival. No one know of the alternatehistory but Young. Look I'll buy that a kid named Harry popped himthere with a wand if it fits the context. But I didn't like thehandling of the history shift. Probably because it grated againstthe time travel physics concept for me.The ending was the laststraw. The "solution" of the horror created is to jump back to aversion of history closer to the original, to party with his newlover. Really? That is your ending? He transitions overnight from ainsecure hetero idiot that can't do anything right to a confidentswitch hitting man with the plan who pulls off the great escape (ohand changes history again to perfection) under the noses of hisgovernment minders. Really? There is no satisfactory resolution tobe found. It is like Hollywood script writer painting a stupidhappy face ending on Pretty Woman. I have enough words down to meetthe contracted length. Time to wrap this book up and move on thenext writing project. He forgot to end the book "and they livedhappily ever after".... well it was pretty close "Give me someEcstasy and let's get out there and dance."1 of 1 people found thefollowing review helpful. Stephen Fry is gifted at many things,with perhaps ...By EdieStephen Fry is gifted at many things, withperhaps novel-writing not being in the top 10. I still gave 3 starsfor the interesting plot line, but once I was done reading, Itraded the book in at my local paperback trader.0 of 0 people foundthe following review helpful. Mildly entertaining, lacklusterbeginning, fair endingBy RootmanI ran across a reference to thisnovel while reading comments on another alternate history novel. Ifound the beginning slow with a lot of of artsy farts word play andlittle direction. It takes till the middle of the novel to get tothe main action.I was disappointed that no theory was given as toHOW the "time machine" TIM worked or HOW it was "changed" into notonly a receiver but a transmitter as well, the story just assumesthat they accomplished the feat without any real mention of HOW. Ialso did not gather why the main character Michael / Mikey was theonly one who retained any memory of the defunct time line and theprofessor Leo / Axel did not. I assume it was his proximity to themachine when it "changed" history.HERE BE SPOILERS! BEWARE! TURNBACK NOW YE UNREAD.....The greatest disappointment was the ending.They UNdid the change by sending back a couple of putrefied ratsinto the same cistern that they initially sent the sterilizationdrugs to in order to stop Hitlers father from drinking it andforcing the people to wash and clean the cistern and eliminate anytrace of the drugs. Hitlers father is thereby NOT sterilized andAdolph Hitler is born and the time line is restored. I found thishokey and poorly thought out and the ending pretty much "phonedin". I am good at guessing the outcome of most novels and moviesand thought for sure that the professor, wracked with guilt wouldrealize that HE was the cause of the drastic change, elimination ofall Jews in Eurpoe and successful rise of Nazi Germany byeliminating Hitler. It would of stood to reason that he should ofsent some of the sterilization drug to HIS OWN father, thereforeeliminating HIM and his time machine invention and subsequentchanges to history. THAT would of made more sense and been a lotmore prosaic and poignant ending, MESSAGE: You Can't Mess WithHistory and Not Pay the Price.Otherwise the novel is fairly wellwritten and can be finished in good order without too much pain tothe reader. The dialog switches to a screenplay format in severalsections which I particularly hated but switches back to regularstory format soon.I would never of bought it new but it was worth aread as a used book.This also needs to be made available in ebookformat, it is short sited of the publisher not to do so.

Stephen Fry tackles alternate history, asking: What if Hitler hadnever been born? Michael Young is a graduate student at Cambridgewho is completing his dissertation on the early life of AdolfHitler. Leo Zuckerman is an aging German physicist and Holocaustsurvivor. Together they idealistically embark on an experiment tochange the course of history. And with their success is launched abrave new world that is in some ways better thanours—but in most ways even worse.Fry’s sci-fi-tinged experiment in history makesfor an ambitious and deeply affecting novel.

From School Library JournalYA-A time-travel tale, of sorts, thisnovel by a British comedian is alternately funny andthought-provoking. The protagonist, Michael Young, is a trendy,somewhat vapid graduate student at Cambridge who is just finishinghis dissertation on the early years of Hitler. Fry alternateschapters describing Michael's actions with sections of hisdissertation, allowing a glimpse into the environment that spawnedthe rise of the Fuhrer. Upon Michael's meeting with physicsprofessor Leo Zuckermann, the nefarious plot thickens. What ifHitler had never been born? What would a world without theHolocaust be like? The two men send male-sterility pills back intime to the water supply used by Hitler's parents. Instantly,Michael finds himself, British accent and all, as an Americanstudent at Princeton in an entirely different world. Is it a betterworld? The novel is full of surprises, with the outcome not evenremotely as pristine as Michael had hoped. This is a strange book,full of dry British humor and quips. It also deals with the Nazi"final solution," a topic at the far extreme from laughable. Ittakes readers into a world of ironic possibilities fraught withdisaster, resulting from the best of intentions. YAs will find thisan easy read that will stretch their imaginations, entertain them,and leave them thinking about the possible outcomes of the "roadnot taken."-Carol DeAngelo, Garcia Consulting Inc., EPAHeadquarters, Washington, DCCopyright 1998 Reed BusinessInformation, Inc.From Library JournalMichael Young, a Cambridgegraduate student who has just completed his dissertation on AdolfHitler's childhood, and German physicist Leo Zuckermann, inventorof a machine that can look into the past, come up with a way toprevent Hitler from ever having been born. Apparently unfamiliarwith the Awful Warnings of the time travel genre, Michael and Leodon't hesitate to change history, and the results of theirsuccessful experience certainly make a difference. In this clever,thought-provoking, and very funny novel, Fry ably and convincinglyimagines a world that never knew Hitler. This intelligent andgripping tale is even better than Fry's witty The Liar (LJ 4/15/93)and should appeal to a wider audience. Highlyrecommended.-?Elizabeth Mellett, Brookline P.L., Mass.Copyright1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.From BooklistAvailing himselfof that durable literary device, time travel, Fry entangles MichaelYoung, history student at Cambridge University, in a scheme toprevent the birth of Adolf Hitler. An unwitting prey to dozens ofthe author's entertaining traps--yes, this is a funny novel, albeitan uneasily amusing one--the first trap being his desire to publishhis thesis, sort of a "Hitler: The Early Years" written up as anovel. For help he turns to Professor Leo Zuckermann, physicist andson of an SS doctor. The professor burns to purge himself of thisparentage, and happens to have invented a time machine; Younghappens to have some male sterilization pills he stole from hisex-girlfriend, a geneticist. So they time-transport the pills topoison the wellwater of Adolf's would-be father. That works,but--shazaam!--both Young and Zuckermann inadvertently fall intothe time machine. They separately reappear at Princeton University,circa 1996, where the world appears not to have heard of AdolfHitler. History has, however, produced a Rudolf Glober, under whoseaegis Zuckermann's father led a more "successful" career than underHitler, so Young and Zuckermann must, once they reunite, reenterthe time machine and restore history as it was. A simultaneouslyzany and serious yarn spinner, Fry creates here a bizarre butskillfully controlled alternative world, with the virtuoso pacingand tension that attract readers. Gilbert Taylor

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