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| Final Theory: A Novel | 
 enlarge | Author: Mark Alpert
Publisher: Touchstone
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (103 reviews)
Sales Rank: 87696
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Touchstone Hardcover Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.2 x 1.3
ISBN: 1416572872
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9781416572879
ASIN: 1416572872
Publication Date: June 3, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 Intelligent Thriller November 20, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
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.
 Nice Try November 20, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
 Final Theory by Mark Albert November 9, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
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.
a good concept but clumsy and completely unbelievable November 4, 2008
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
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.
Best since Crichton November 2, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is the best science thriller novel I've read since I completed all of Michael Crichton's stories.
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