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Love At Absolute Zero (2012)

by Christopher Meeks(Favorite Author)

3.26 of 5 Votes: 1

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

White Whisker Books

review 1: Meeks is a short-story writer as well as the author of this novel, and his care with words shows brightly. Meeks manages to deal with high level physics, the realm of college professor and protagonist Gunnar, in clear ways and with minimal two-dollar vocabulary, a trait throughout the book. Gunnar wants to find love. Being a scientist, the obvious approach to him is to seek love scientifically. While Gunnar is a world-class physicist, he has historically shaky relationships with women. It is easy to like Gunnar, and Meeks fleshes him out well. We see Gunnar take on relationships and attempts at them in several ways. Ultimately, this modestly priced eBook does a fine job approaching physics at a mind-boggling level, love and its inherent difficulties, and Gunnar, hims... moreelf. The part set out of the United States is done in fascinating fashion. I have already sought out other Meeks works, look forward to them, and seeing that he teaches pretty near me, am sorely tempted to seek out his classes and/or him.
review 2: Christopher Meek's story starts as the tale of a physicist searching for a date in Madison and ends up crossing the Atlantic in pursuit of a woman and science. Meek's book touches on many themes in its trip from speed dating and orthodontics in Madison to culture shock and crisis in Denmark. The journey also mixes in humor, science and a supporting cast of well-written characters. Gunnar at first gives himself three days to find a woman, the time it takes to move and repair equipment for an experiment. This of course leads to a crash course in self improvement that leads Gunnar to repel more women than he attracts. Eventually he settles in to his own skin and is able to reach more people, including a few special ones (not to give too much away).This book gets four stars from me, losing points for a slow start and occasionally awkward language. The physics bits were interesting, even though most of my exposure to science has been in Ecology and related fields. It seems a stretch to tie the physics to our notions of love. That sometimes works, but often does not. Overall I really enjoyed the book, a very fun read. It took me a few days to crack the first few dozen pages, but I read the rest of it on a train ride across the Midwest. less

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