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String Theory: A Novel
Seventeen-year-old Josh Miller lives in a world of almosts. He's just friends with Hannah Taylor, the girl he's secretly in love with. He sits at the cool table but mostly gets made fun of, and he's number fifteen on a list of fourteen guys who are going to make varsity tennis. He has a borderline unhealthy obsession with Andy Roddick, a semi-crazy family, and half a mind to just give up the whole tennis thing completely.
That is, until the day a tree-hugging physics professor tells Josh's class about The String Theory – the belief that with every decision we make, another version of us breaks free and starts its own reality. Josh treats the professor's half-baked ideas as gospel and acquires a special tool needed to bounce from one world into the next.
Suddenly, Josh is thrust into an alternate universe in which he's the best junior tennis player in the United States and poised on the brink of superstardom . He wins the affections of Hannah Taylor and the adoration of the same kids in school who used to ridicule him. Josh's world of almosts turns into a world of endorsement deals and magazine covers.
Everything seems perfect until Josh's old habits start to creep in and infect his new universe. When his blossoming career goes down in flames, he has to learn all the same lessons he tried to avoid in the past. And the biggest lesson of all will be that maybe his old life needs him more than his new one.
That is, until the day a tree-hugging physics professor tells Josh's class about The String Theory – the belief that with every decision we make, another version of us breaks free and starts its own reality. Josh treats the professor's half-baked ideas as gospel and acquires a special tool needed to bounce from one world into the next.
Suddenly, Josh is thrust into an alternate universe in which he's the best junior tennis player in the United States and poised on the brink of superstardom . He wins the affections of Hannah Taylor and the adoration of the same kids in school who used to ridicule him. Josh's world of almosts turns into a world of endorsement deals and magazine covers.
Everything seems perfect until Josh's old habits start to creep in and infect his new universe. When his blossoming career goes down in flames, he has to learn all the same lessons he tried to avoid in the past. And the biggest lesson of all will be that maybe his old life needs him more than his new one.
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First published December 27, 2010
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November 24, 2011
I'm glad to be the first reviewer for this terrific book. I loved the male point of view, the tennis scenes, the premise of the two parallel alternate worlds. It's a fictional portrayal of the concept "Anything is possible."
This book pulls you right in -- the reader gets to sit back and enjoy the ride the whole way. Josh, the main character, is an engaging, good-hearted slacker who unwittingly falls into a different universe where he exists as a hard-driving, wildly successful but not very nice version of himself. It gives him a chance to really look at himself and discover who he is and who he wants to be.
I highly recommend it.
This book pulls you right in -- the reader gets to sit back and enjoy the ride the whole way. Josh, the main character, is an engaging, good-hearted slacker who unwittingly falls into a different universe where he exists as a hard-driving, wildly successful but not very nice version of himself. It gives him a chance to really look at himself and discover who he is and who he wants to be.
I highly recommend it.
January 17, 2012
Too much profanity for my taste.
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