This Audio CD Book item from Simon & Schuster Audio was reviewed on 25-Oct-2008.
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1) Audio CD Book Final Theory: A Novel by Simon & Schuster Audio. This novel got a good review in the New York Times. The author is an editor at Scientific American. He puts real science into an exciting story, and I learned something about physics as I read it. After I finished the book, I gave it to my Dad and he loved it! The novel will appeal to anyone who has an interest in science. It´s a smart, fun adventure story that you can read in a single sitting.¤ 2) Audio CD Book Final Theory: A Novel by Simon & Schuster Audio. The idea for Final Theory was good, but its execution lacking. The story is prosaic. Plot transitions are present which are unexplained and/or unbelievable. What science there is---though interesting---is minuscule. The plot doesn´t deliver, and the overwrought "advanced praise" on the dust jacket serves only to deepen the disappointment. The hologram on the cover was a nice touch.
¤ 3) Audio CD Book Final Theory: A Novel by Simon & Schuster Audio. This author took what was a promising idea and ruined it by creating characters so stereotypical and one dimensional as to be laughable. I´m half way through this book and I don´t know whether to laugh or cry. I suggest Mr. Albert get out of Manhattan just to discover there are real people out there who are as complex and multi-talented as any one living next door to him. He might then actually be able to write something that qualifies as something that could possibly appeal to a thinking human being. A concept he currently has difficulty grasping.¤ 4) Audio CD Book Final Theory: A Novel by Simon & Schuster Audio. Very disappointing. I guess from the moment early on that our hero is roughed up and arrested by the FBI for no good reason, the plot has been lost. The twists and turns are clumsy rather than ingenious - the super soaker, the drunken stag party, etc etc. the villain kills people at will and occasionally for no reason, so his decision not to kill the good guys (yet, while holding our hero in captivity, decides to confide in him the full extent of his evil plot) is all the more baffling. The bad guy is rescued, comatose, from a car crash, then kills his rescuer because he is of no more use to him. Luckily, he has no worse injury than a sprained ankle - but it´s pretty bad, he knows he has to move fast before the ankle will no longer be able to support his weight. He needn´t have worried, the next day he standing on one foot while using his other foot to force his full weight down on our hero´s chest and prevent him from moving, and then sprinting along corridors for guns. ok, that´s not as bad as the severed femoral artery which doesn´t seem to slow down another character, as someone else has mentioned. Final Theory is chock full of inconsistencies that make it completely unbelievable and, for me, very nearly completely unreadable. Somehow I persevered to the end but really felt I´d wasted time that would have been better spent on something else.¤ 5) Audio CD Book Final Theory: A Novel by Simon & Schuster Audio. This is the best science thriller novel I´ve read since I completed all of Michael Crichton´s stories.¤ 6) Audio CD Book Final Theory: A Novel by Simon & Schuster Audio. Columbia University professor David Swift is called to the hospital to comfort his mentor, a physicist who´s been brutally attacked. With his last words, the dying man gives his former pupil a seemingly random string of numbers that could hold the key to Einstein´s last and greatest secret. Einheitliche Feldtheorie. The Theory of Everything. Einstein´s proposed Unified Theory -- a set of equations that could explain all the forces of nature -- would have revolutionized our understanding of the universe. But Einstein never discovered it. Or did he? Within hours, David is arrested by the FBI and taken to a secret interrogation center. But the FBI isn´t the only faction pursuing Einstein´s long-hidden theory. A Russian mercenary wants to force David to talk -- and he will do whatever it takes. On the run for his life, David teams up with an old girlfriend, a brilliant Princeton scientist, and frantically tries to piece together Einstein´s final theory to reveal its staggering consequences.We used E=mc2 to build the atom bomb....What could we do with the key to creation? Seamlessly weaving real science, history, and politics with an intriguing love story, Final Theory expertly combines fact and fiction with nonstop heart-pounding action in a plot that will have you riveted until its explosive end.¤ Page Updated: Robert N. Goolsby, 22-Nov-2008, 07435728589780743572859, 440-670-150-580-3X1-781-8 
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