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The Technologists (2011)

by Matthew Pearl(Favorite Author)

3.46 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1400066573 (ISBN13: 9781400066575)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Random House

review 1: The book is about MIT's first year's graduating class in 1868 - its struggle to be considered as a university of some standing, its first President Rogers tireless efforts. Its rivalry with Harvard in which Harvard students come as across as pompous and only focused on theory. The book begins with strange happenings in Boston that are unexplained and causes deaths. The police do not know what to do and decide not to seek MIT's help. So the students decide to make a secret society and probe the mysterious events. The book seems to be simplistic with the purpose of propping up MIT - do not know why since they do not need any additional propaganda. It could be turned into a movie or a tv series because of the action events. It may be more interesting to see a mystery getting ... moresolved than reading the book.
review 2: I had high expectations going into this one, given its academic and historical settings and its respectable treatment of geeks, but it didn't work out. The likable protagonist and most of the supporting cast were fine and interesting enough, and the overarching theme was good, centered as it was on a fear of technology and the jobs that it might take from people--a theme that's not unheard of even in today's world. But what killed this one for me was the pacing. To say that it was glacial would be to insult glaciers. It simply dragged on for far too long, coupled with far too many slow patches tossed in during what should have been the more intense, up-tempo scenes. At first I thought that it might have been due to real life forcing me to read this one in bits and pieces instead of going through it chunks at a time, but I just kept getting the same impression over and over again with regard to the pacing, coupled with the realization that I never reached for this book with excitement at the thought of picking up where I left off. Rather, there were reading sessions that seemed more like chores, which is just not a good thing. Ever. less

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