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A review by samyukta_24
Making History by Stephen Fry
5.0
Making History has one of the most uniquely mind-bending plots I have ever come across. Michael Young, a student pursuing a Ph.D. in History, encounters a non-assuming physics professor on a fateful day, thereby changing his life and the whole course of history. They both fixate on the idea of how the world would turn out if Adolf Hitler had never been born, and set about to make it into reality.
This isn't the first time I have heard about Stephen Fry, but I was always reluctant to try his books. What a grave mistake. I have never enjoyed and completely been absorbed by a book like this before. A great mixture of tragedy, humor, philosophy, history, and time travel is still not enough to describe what exactly this book represents. All I can say is that it's a wild ride from start to finish.
There are a lot of liberties taken, of course, with regards to the alternate history of the world and the whole science and technology aspect of the book, but I don’t think those are the points to ponder about. The heart-wrenching truth and circumstances surrounding the darkest period of human history and just the very idea of rewriting life as we know it, already gave a plethora of moments where I had to keep the book aside to digest the narrative.
All in all, even though it sometimes bordered on the outrageous and offensive, it is still one of the weirdest (in-the-best-way) books I have read till now.
This isn't the first time I have heard about Stephen Fry, but I was always reluctant to try his books. What a grave mistake. I have never enjoyed and completely been absorbed by a book like this before. A great mixture of tragedy, humor, philosophy, history, and time travel is still not enough to describe what exactly this book represents. All I can say is that it's a wild ride from start to finish.
There are a lot of liberties taken, of course, with regards to the alternate history of the world and the whole science and technology aspect of the book, but I don’t think those are the points to ponder about. The heart-wrenching truth and circumstances surrounding the darkest period of human history and just the very idea of rewriting life as we know it, already gave a plethora of moments where I had to keep the book aside to digest the narrative.
All in all, even though it sometimes bordered on the outrageous and offensive, it is still one of the weirdest (in-the-best-way) books I have read till now.