The Book Depository Making History by Stephen Fry
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Description: Making History : Paperback : Cornerstone : 9780099457060 : 0099457067 : 05 Aug 2004 : Michael Young is a brilliant young history student whose life is changed when he meets Leo Zuckerman, an ageing physicist with a theory that can change worlds. The Book Depository Making History by Stephen Fry - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Review: Bought for our grandson as one of his school books.
Author: Matthew Downing
Rating: 2
Review: Love Stephen Fry generally (all formats). Am surprised by the high reviews of this. As it is by him the writing style is great, but the plot doesn't work. Each additional messy premise jolted me out of the narrative. [SPOILERS] And I'm not talking about time-travelling to kill Hitler, I'm fine with that, that's a great set up. But, for example, the idea that someone doing a PhD in history (from Cambridge) would think you could kill Hitler and the world would automatically be a better place, is nonsense. I only have a bachelors in history, and I know if you changed anything in the past the outcome would be random - maybe better, maybe worse. It's great to have a book explore that (and maybe would have been good to watch the protagonists try to make different changes to see how the outcomes shift), but the "great reveal" that the world is worse would only work if someone had no knowledge of how history operates, not someone with PhD-level understanding. If time travel had been accidentally discovered by drunks in a pub, for example, and their first thought was "Let's kill Hitler! After another round of vodkas.". And the ending... well I guess no-one can blame Hollywood for turning Titanic into a love story any more. One of the greats of our culture (this was only one book) jettisons an exploration of the impact of Hitler on history into a rushed love ending. Summarised as "I woke up and it was all a dream, except I'd changed sexual orientation and the fictitious person I was dreaming of appeared in bed beside me!" Real shame.
