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24 Sep, 2016
Dark Matter--by Blake Crouch--Unlimited Doorways
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch: A Book Review
By Marc D. Goldfinger
Crown Publishers, an Imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.
“What might have been and what has been
point to one end, which is always present.
Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened.”---T.S. Eliot from “Burnt Norton”
Jason Desson is sitting at the dinner table with the family he loves very much. His son is fifteen and his name is Charlie. His beautiful wife is named Daniela and she watches him with her dark Spanish eyes.
Jason loves his life and can’t imagine anything different. He teaches at Lakemont College, a class in physics, and he enjoys that too. He could have been so much more if he had gone into the private experimental sector but he made a choice and doesn’t regret it.
Well, maybe sometimes he does have a twinge of regret. His wife was on the fast track in the art world and she gave all that up to raise a family and become a teacher too. The paths we choose change everything about our lives.
Then there is Ryan Holder, Jason’s friend and former colleague, who just won the Pavia Prize for identifying the pre -frontal cortex as a consciousness generator. Jason is at the celebration, where Ryan gives him a hard time because he thinks that Jason could have won the prize if he hadn’t gone into teaching.
Jason, who feels quite lucky to be married to Daniela with a wonderful son, fills with anger and leaves the celebration. And that is when the change begins.
It’s one thing to be kidnapped for ransom. But it is quite another thing to be kidnapped and sent to another world where your life is totally different and you become the award winning physicist, but lose your wife and family. Suddenly you are rich and famous, but alone and miserable, and not to mention scared to death about what just seemed to happen to your life.
It also raises the question of who has taken your place in the world you came from and how did that happen?
Advantage—you have all the tools to get back to your real life, but you lack the skill to use the tools. There is a Black Box, which gives you options of doors you can go through to find your correct life. But you don’t know the rules for choosing the correct door, and there are myriad doors to choose from. How do you find the world you want to get back to and who did this to you? Was it the man who took your place in the world you were taken out of?
That man is you, in your old world, yet he is not you. He is a pretender who is now sleeping with your wife. You are now him, in another reality, yet you really are not him. In the world you are now in you are the owner of Velocity Laboratories and you are rich and powerful, yet you can’t seem to get back home to your wife and depose the usurper.
Who is the real Jason Desson? How many Jason Desson’s are there? When Jason Desson goes into the Black Box that he created at Velocity Laboratories which allows him to visit myriad alternate realities, how will he discover the world he wants to re-enter? And he has a limit on the number of tries he can make to go home.
Whose place are you taking and who took your place? How do you use the Black Box? How do you choose the reality that will take you home? These are the questions facing Jason Desson in Dark Matter by Blake Crouch.
This book is dynamic and unbelievable yet, could it happen? It grabs your attention from the very beginning and takes you along on Jason’s travels and discoveries. A futuristic detective story/science fiction mix, Dark Matter is an exciting adventure about an unusual situation. It will definitely keep you interested and entertained, from first page to last.
28 Feb, 2022
The Best Zombie comic ever written!
This is a fantastic graphic novel. Probably one of the Best ever written. Robert Kirkman is a great writer and Charlie Adlard is a wonderful artist.
26 Mar, 2016
The Fireman: A Book Review by Marc Goldfinger
The Fireman by Joe Hill: A Book Review
By Marc D. Goldfinger
The Fireman by Joe Hill—to be published by William Morrow, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers—May, 2016
“Ashes, ashes, we all fall down.”
Once the fire starts it’s nothing but trouble. You can spell trouble D-E-A-T-H! It really does take a Fireman to put out a fire. It also takes a nurse, one with true compassion, not faked; the children see right through faked compassion, to ease them when they’re sick.
Harper Grayson was a nurse and she worked at a school. Worked, as in once did, while the schools were still open. Then she worked at a hospital where she could do some good, not in the way most nurses do some good but, spit spot, on the double, a diagnosis of the situation. Keeps the Fireman safe, or is it safety first for the burning pain of an appendix inside inflammation but it hasn’t burst yet.
When the burning starts, it’s a good thing to have someone owe you a favour, someone who understands what a fire hose is for.
Then, in a hospital in New Hampshire, there was a Black person named Renee Gilmonton, one of the patients accustomed to be stared at, cause how many children growing up in New Hampshire saw anyone of colour? And if you run toward somebody bursting into flames, well, that was just crazy, no? But Renee was like coal anyway and fire wasn’t going to make her any darker, was it?
Renee had a book store before the dragon scale sparkled her neck, never made much money but they had hellava poetry slams there every week. She loved books and, with her, brought the book called The Bridge of San Luis Rey.
Harper asked her why she brought such a short book about a tragedy just waiting to happen and Renee might have said, “Well you’re not going to want to start to read The Stand, the long version, when you might never get a chance to finish it. And we’re all on The Bridge right now anyway.” But that’s not precisely what she said, is it?
And while we’re talking about Renee, Black as coal, we could talk about the video of her, when she was reading to one of the children the child felt her get really warm and jumped away as Renee started to glow, grabbed her mint plant she came in with and started running for the exit. The video shows the whole thing while she was running out of the hospital, glowing, glowing, with eyes like death rays but the video didn’t show anything after she left the hospital and I’m not going to tell you what they found.
Harper’s not working at the hospital anymore and that doesn’t mean she’s one of the lucky ones but she could be; you can’t work at a place that blazed away, can you?
Joe Hill wrote this book, called The Fireman; that’s what I’m really talking about and when Joe writes his words take flight like musical notes with wings. It doesn’t matter if the edges of the wings are singed by flame, those words fly and they have a song of their own.
He’s special, that guy Joe Hillstrom King; that was his name once, and on his birth certificate that’s still his name. But he was a caterpillar then and he spun a cocoon and when the cocoon split open he was a bird that spoke words as beautiful as butterfly wings. Sometimes the words caught fire and that’s when the lucky reader; I say lucky reader because if you are reading one of his books or stories, you are a lucky reader alive in another world; the world that Joe Hill built—or burned, whichever you like, or maybe don’t like, but you’ll love it. This book, The Fireman is Joe’s longest book yet and that’s actually a good thing because it’s one of those books you never want to end. If you are a true reader, you know exactly what I mean.
Now Harper Grayson, in the shower, suddenly sees the Dragonscale on her body. Who wouldn’t forget to turn the shower off at a time like this? Her husband, Jakob, looks at her body and only thinks about himself. But didn’t he call her babygirl all the time? Ahh, relationships!
All that time in the hospital working, working, working, covered in Tyvek to keep out the Dragonscale, running for your life as the hospital burns, but now, pregnant and with the shower water running, her husband burns her with cold eyes.
There are many people who opt out; that means suicide; that’s the nice way of saying it. Joe Hill can say it many ways; his words dance on the page and your eyes are kissed by the Dragonscale. By the way, have you examined your body yet?
Oh, but this is only a book; it’s not real. That’s the skill, the gift that Joe Hill has. He makes it real.
When you read The Fireman you will develop a relationship with Joe Hill that won’t exactly make you all warm and fuzzy, but you may burst into flame. It’s not always easy to find a Fireman when you need one.
Sometimes, in your relationships, things get strange. Like when Jakob finds out about Harper’s Dragonscale and begins to think. That’s when Harper finds out what kind of relationship she has always had with Jakob; things are not what they seem to be.