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Making History
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More like 3.5 stars but whatever.
The story follows Michael D. Young, a 24 year old guy who is supposed to turn in his thesis to achieve his doctorate. He lives with his girlfriend Jane, who is a very clever ambitious Chemist (I think, idk anymore) and both of them are so different that this relationship isn't good for any of them. The thesis Michael writes focuses on Adolf Hitler and his mother but (because he is dumb, I can't find another reason for such a bad thesis) he writes it in prose. Like it's a fucking novel and not a scientific paper. What.The.Hell.Dude.
So obviously the professor who is in charge for his thesis isn't too thrilled and wants him to rewrite his shit. And somewhere here Michael meets another professor, Leo Zuckerberg who somehow was able to build a machine that allows him to look at Auschwitz in 1944 (again I think that was the year, I really don't want to check again). At this point they just look at it...but what would happen if they could actually do something that would prevent Hitler from doing the horror we all learnt about at school?
So the story unfolds there.
The book switches between chapters focusing on the "present", 1994 with struggling Michael and his life, and the past where we get to know Adolf Hitlers mother, her abuse by Alois and so on. Then we also get chapters about how Hitler was working in the first world war, the people that served in the war etc. It switches to another character from the time, but I don't want to give anything away.
I really liked the history point in this book, I liked the time travel thing. But the writing style is sth you have to get used to, what took me like 200 pages. After that I was thrilled to continue reading. One major negative point is that after going on and on about history the story evolves to become a fucking love story that no one needs and no one (or maybe just me) asked for. But whatever. It is what it is. The love story wasn't even nicely written, just thrown out there. I'm annoyed.
STILL I recommend reading it, go ahead have fun.
The story follows Michael D. Young, a 24 year old guy who is supposed to turn in his thesis to achieve his doctorate. He lives with his girlfriend Jane, who is a very clever ambitious Chemist (I think, idk anymore) and both of them are so different that this relationship isn't good for any of them. The thesis Michael writes focuses on Adolf Hitler and his mother but (because he is dumb, I can't find another reason for such a bad thesis) he writes it in prose. Like it's a fucking novel and not a scientific paper. What.The.Hell.Dude.
So obviously the professor who is in charge for his thesis isn't too thrilled and wants him to rewrite his shit. And somewhere here Michael meets another professor, Leo Zuckerberg who somehow was able to build a machine that allows him to look at Auschwitz in 1944 (again I think that was the year, I really don't want to check again). At this point they just look at it...but what would happen if they could actually do something that would prevent Hitler from doing the horror we all learnt about at school?
So the story unfolds there.
The book switches between chapters focusing on the "present", 1994 with struggling Michael and his life, and the past where we get to know Adolf Hitlers mother, her abuse by Alois and so on. Then we also get chapters about how Hitler was working in the first world war, the people that served in the war etc. It switches to another character from the time, but I don't want to give anything away.
I really liked the history point in this book, I liked the time travel thing. But the writing style is sth you have to get used to, what took me like 200 pages. After that I was thrilled to continue reading. One major negative point is that after going on and on about history the story evolves to become a fucking love story that no one needs and no one (or maybe just me) asked for. But whatever. It is what it is. The love story wasn't even nicely written, just thrown out there. I'm annoyed.
STILL I recommend reading it, go ahead have fun.
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