Blasphemy by Douglas Preston
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Book Reviews of Blasphemy
Book Review: started well...
Summary: 1 Stars
Then went straight downhill. Ended in tedious boredom. Wish I had that 3 hours back.Book Review: Interesting
Summary: 4 Stars
I thought the story was an interesting take on science and religion. The reader on the audiobook was good.Book Review: Think this is fantasy? There's more here than meets the eye!
Summary: 4 Stars
I was half-way through this creative tale, and enjoying the fantasy of a super collider being built in the midst of Indian reservations in New Mexico, when a current news story really made it all immediately plausible. Did you know that the large Hadron Collider is being built near Geneva, Switzerland? That it has attracted some of the top scientists in the world, and that the U. S. is participating? Like our scientists in Blasphemy, they are working on simulating the conditions after the Big Bang! Douglas Preston was certainly inspired by this effort in coming up with Blasphemy, and that definitely explains how he managed to come up with such impressive technological descriptions of the equipment and how it works. I thoroughly enjoyed the story and really got into some fast page-turning toward the end. Did the premise cause me to dig deep into my spiritual convictions? Did I spend any time trying to decide whether or not this was an experiment God would want us to mess around with. No, I just enjoyed the "what if" musings coupled with thinking about what must be going on in Switzerland. If you need something to get stirred up about, google "Large Hadron Collider" and read about how far along they are. If you just want to read a good story - one you'll think about for some time after you put the book down, read, Blasphemy! Book Review: Love to read
Summary: 5 Stars
Great book with a rather sick concept. You couldn't put it down and could totally see how it would happen.Book Review: Oh Ye of Little Faith
Summary: 5 Stars
I am a devout Christian - have been all my life. I am also a fan of Preston. I did not find anything in this book the least bit offensive. True, I am not an over the top Fundamentalist Christian, although I am sympathetic with them. It seemed to me that the characters that offended so many were clearly drawn to be way far out and beyond any of the known Fundamentalist leaders. If, in fact, anyone sees himself in them, then that is a problem for him and his own conscience, not the rest of us.
The so-called plot hole about the supposed two hour mob mobilization was made very reasonable, it seems to me, because of many plot strings reaching much further back in time. By the time of the "email" there was a mob already mobilized and raring to go. The political/military bungling of the whole mess was also very realistic. It took courage to write this book and courage to publish it. I think that reading it may do a lot of people a lot of good - and be entertaining as well. It is, at the very least, a "page turner".