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An Altered Course
- Narrated by: John C. Snipes
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
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Summary
When a friend is in trouble, no barrier is too great; not even decades.
Driven to unravel his best friend’s disappearance, Michael Eldridge is on the verge of a discovery that will enable him to finally solve the mystery; time travel. He has worked out the equation, and is testing his theory, ready to leap into the past to find the missing link.
While in the process of ensuring a safe and successful trip, Michael’s life explodes around him. A competing company will stop at nothing to get their hands on his technology, and his father’s health is deteriorating rapidly. When the woman of his dreams suddenly announces she’s interested in a relationship, he realizes this could be the worst timing ever; things are coming to a head faster than he can cope with them.
Will he find the truth, get the girl, and save his father, or will he be swept away on An Altered Course….
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- Norma Miles
- 24-09-18
It's a Wonderful Life.
What a strange book, much more like a graphic comic book whose author can't draw pictures than a text novel. It is quite fun with a good storyline in the background, but...
Thirty years before, in 1957, three seven years old boys, close friends, after school go to explore a new drainage system still under construction; but when one of them, Joe, runs off to get flashlights so they can explore the tunnel, the other two don't wait for him to come back. They go home. Joe is never seen again. One of the boys who abandoned him grows up crippled by guilt and the need to know what happened that day and devotes the next thirty years to developing a means to bend time so he can go back to find out. In his researching, Michael becomes a celebrated software designer, famous world wide and owner of a large computing business in Silicon Valley, contracted by NASA. Billy, the third member of the original group of three schoolboys, is his partner.
The story is developed in little story blocks - Mike's relationship with his father, a whirlwind romance, etc, and filled with his angst and introspection over his lost friend, his own aloneness, the possibilities of time travel (how the past affects the future) and, when she's around, his lusting after one of his employees of six years who suddenly sets out to seduce him, having apparently had a crush on him since she was a child. There is a lot of techie information, computer code, an AI, some killings and all sorts of nefarious business, combined with the ongoing obsession to return to the place where he had last seen Joe, to once again find (his only?) friend. Ho hum.
Yes, it would make for an exciting comic book.
And, to be honest, it is quite an exciting book once the initial hour or so has passed, so stick with it. But with such two dimensional characters, it does require an enormous suspension of disbelief. Fortunately, John C Snipes is there to breath some life into them. His fairly deep voice reads at a brisk rate with good intonation and all of his protagonists, male and female, are given distinctive and individual voices, even if an English agent does have an accent which alternates between a Bond character and Michael Caine. His overall performance is good. The production quality not so much, with sound levels varying, just slightly but sufficient to be subtly intrusive. However, it was Mr.Snipes performance which carried this reader to the end.
I was fortunate in being freely gifted a complimentary copy of An Altered Course, at my request, by the rights owner, via Audiobook Boom. Thank you. It was an intriguing premise and a somewhat bizarre experience. As previously mentioned, it would make an excellent graphic novel series, or even a film (there is plenty of action of one sort or another). But as a book I found it lacking in substance. Or have I missed the point - was it supposed to be funny?
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- MommaBear
- 18-10-19
Just a Quick review just now
I loved this book - but at moment do not have the time to go into a more in-depth review but just wanted to let you all know this book is one for you if you love time travel, sci-fi and mysteries.
I will be back and be looking at authors other works if there are any, not checked yet.
The narrator was perfect for the story.
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review
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