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Einstein a go-go
Imagine what crazy exciting things Albert Einstein got up to as a student at University.
Well come with me back to the fin de siècle year 1900, and Paris, for his comic adventures where he will meet the great and the famous like Nietzsche, Rasputin, Picasso, Proust, Freud, Mata Hari, Oscar Wilde, HG Wells, Houdini and Jack the Ripper.
All the time being attacked by a malign super-entity who distorts the world by Futurism, Dadaism, Impressionism, Expressionism, Cubism, Surrealism and other tricks of the eye.
Like one of Einstein's famous thought-experiments: witness lectures by famous scientists turn into marvellous magic acts; see famous paintings come alive; or if you have to, take a nap and let the story play in your mind.
And let Young Einstein bring along fellow students Niels Bohr and Marie Curie to chase down villains and get chased themselves, ending up in improbable situations.
Like a bumbling amateur detective Einstein soon finds himself in farce upon farce of great hilarity at places like the Moulin Rouge, a performance of Puccini's Tosca, Buffalo Bill's bigtop circus, the Louvre, the Paris Metro, the zoo, the second Olympic games, the International EXPO and more.
With best mate Niels Bohr, he debates the new Quantum science causing no end of disagreements and fights between them. And then there is Marie Curie, proto-feminist, who keeps the two boys in check.
We will go back in history to see him steal the first ever Mercedes car, and test-drive it 'Top Gear' style across Europe. And watch him defuse a bomb like a big-bang hero. And his days will only get crazier and crazier.
He dances fast, he fiddles fast, he thinks fast - after all he is after the great speed of light itself.
This is speculative weird fiction you will go WOW at, and disbelieve your own eyeballs at a unique book full of strange passion and grand conspiracies and anarchists and mysteries of the quantum substrate.
It's 'Harry Potter' meets 'The Prague Cemetery' meets '1066 and All That'. A cross-genre of historical fiction and comedy. A fast rollicking mystery story full of crazy things and farces and forces, as Einstein ponders new ground. A right rip-roaring runaround.
What we want - an extraordinary story for an extraordinary man. All for a century of geek-nation.
There is nothing else like it in the world. You will never have read a book like this before. Read it now.
Well come with me back to the fin de siècle year 1900, and Paris, for his comic adventures where he will meet the great and the famous like Nietzsche, Rasputin, Picasso, Proust, Freud, Mata Hari, Oscar Wilde, HG Wells, Houdini and Jack the Ripper.
All the time being attacked by a malign super-entity who distorts the world by Futurism, Dadaism, Impressionism, Expressionism, Cubism, Surrealism and other tricks of the eye.
Like one of Einstein's famous thought-experiments: witness lectures by famous scientists turn into marvellous magic acts; see famous paintings come alive; or if you have to, take a nap and let the story play in your mind.
And let Young Einstein bring along fellow students Niels Bohr and Marie Curie to chase down villains and get chased themselves, ending up in improbable situations.
Like a bumbling amateur detective Einstein soon finds himself in farce upon farce of great hilarity at places like the Moulin Rouge, a performance of Puccini's Tosca, Buffalo Bill's bigtop circus, the Louvre, the Paris Metro, the zoo, the second Olympic games, the International EXPO and more.
With best mate Niels Bohr, he debates the new Quantum science causing no end of disagreements and fights between them. And then there is Marie Curie, proto-feminist, who keeps the two boys in check.
We will go back in history to see him steal the first ever Mercedes car, and test-drive it 'Top Gear' style across Europe. And watch him defuse a bomb like a big-bang hero. And his days will only get crazier and crazier.
He dances fast, he fiddles fast, he thinks fast - after all he is after the great speed of light itself.
This is speculative weird fiction you will go WOW at, and disbelieve your own eyeballs at a unique book full of strange passion and grand conspiracies and anarchists and mysteries of the quantum substrate.
It's 'Harry Potter' meets 'The Prague Cemetery' meets '1066 and All That'. A cross-genre of historical fiction and comedy. A fast rollicking mystery story full of crazy things and farces and forces, as Einstein ponders new ground. A right rip-roaring runaround.
What we want - an extraordinary story for an extraordinary man. All for a century of geek-nation.
There is nothing else like it in the world. You will never have read a book like this before. Read it now.
294 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 14, 2020
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Reekfeel
49 books24 followersA writer of strange abnormal fiction, like Bizarro in Absurdism and Comedy and Surreal Horror. A weird different style that’s totally unique going into mind-bending dimensions and experimental narratives. With a richness of originality, avoiding writing about things already written about. Distinctive feature - the trickster narrator. On Amazon and Godless dot com.
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December 17, 2020
Let me start of by saying this: This book is extremely well-written. Reekfeel is absolutely a talented writer. The ingenuity that it must've taken to craft a book like this is beyond me. It is both creative and new while pulling from classic art styles. Reekfeel seems to have created their own genre and language! That takes talent!
That being said, this book is not for me. I didn't like that I couldn't understand what was going on most of the time because the writing style jumps around so much. I wasn't able to focus on the story at all because I was constantly trying to figure out what obscure references meant along the way.
There's an audience for this, which is why I'm giving it four stars instead of three, but I am not that audience.
**I read this book for a book club that I'm in.**
That being said, this book is not for me. I didn't like that I couldn't understand what was going on most of the time because the writing style jumps around so much. I wasn't able to focus on the story at all because I was constantly trying to figure out what obscure references meant along the way.
There's an audience for this, which is why I'm giving it four stars instead of three, but I am not that audience.
**I read this book for a book club that I'm in.**
December 17, 2020
I read this book as part of a book club, which is the beauty of such a group as I would otherwise never have experienced the mind-boggling weirdness of quantum punk fiction. I enjoyed the journey of trying to detect and understand the references to the different art styles, which you can link to via the author's website. It's all very cleverly done. My conventional book brain wasn't so impressed though, as it kept looking for a plot and a hook to keep me interested. It reads like a poem rather than prose and maybe is more something I could dip in and out of to challenge my brain and have a bit of fun, rather than reading it as a story.
December 15, 2020
For the fans of Quantumpunk, this is a must-read!
I had the privilege of reading this book as part of a book club, and each member came up with ideas and helpers to make the reading fun.
You either love it or hate it; I don't think there is a middle ground here.
I can't give it but a maximum rating due to its originality. It was a rollercoaster of a journey for me; I thought I got the idea, and the next second I lost it. I did a lot of Googling and researching and came back with even more questions. It's not a genre I would pick up as my next read; however, it was a fantastic learning experience.
It might help go through the sample content and then through the Prologue, where useful information about each chapter is provided.
Keep an open mind and enjoy the ride!
I had the privilege of reading this book as part of a book club, and each member came up with ideas and helpers to make the reading fun.
You either love it or hate it; I don't think there is a middle ground here.
I can't give it but a maximum rating due to its originality. It was a rollercoaster of a journey for me; I thought I got the idea, and the next second I lost it. I did a lot of Googling and researching and came back with even more questions. It's not a genre I would pick up as my next read; however, it was a fantastic learning experience.
It might help go through the sample content and then through the Prologue, where useful information about each chapter is provided.
Keep an open mind and enjoy the ride!
December 15, 2020
Uniquely brilliant
Right from the get go I knew that I would be in for something different, baffling, intriguing, and filled with a myriad of science based humour. Though some of the dialogue confused me a little, it was surely my own reading ability as opposed to the writers skill however. A very different comedy which I am certainly sure I will hear much more of in the later days. A must for those with a deep love of science and humour.
Right from the get go I knew that I would be in for something different, baffling, intriguing, and filled with a myriad of science based humour. Though some of the dialogue confused me a little, it was surely my own reading ability as opposed to the writers skill however. A very different comedy which I am certainly sure I will hear much more of in the later days. A must for those with a deep love of science and humour.
December 16, 2020
Difficult to read
I read this as part of a book club. It is a story written in a style I never read before called reekfeel or else known as quantum punk. I did not enjoy it at all. I read the whole story but it was extremely difficult to do so. I don't think this is because of the author though - the style is very discordant and jarring, a stream of consciousness that flips styles constantly throughout the story.
I read this as part of a book club. It is a story written in a style I never read before called reekfeel or else known as quantum punk. I did not enjoy it at all. I read the whole story but it was extremely difficult to do so. I don't think this is because of the author though - the style is very discordant and jarring, a stream of consciousness that flips styles constantly throughout the story.
December 18, 2020
Adventures in ; propability, neoplasms, theoretical physics transported into a world of quantum punk .
Intrigued, you really need to be to read this epic journey of the adventures and debates that three intellectual minds have stimulated in the authors imagination.
“An exploration of probabilities through Quantum Punk”
Reek Feel’s unique, interpretation of the world through the eyes of Quantum Punk certainly took me by surprise. A lifelong fan of Einstein this book really wasn’t what I expected. Initially I was puritanically shocked by it. But, read as part of our book club reading I felt I could respect their selection.
‘ Einstein, A Go Go,’ is a well written and researched novel, clearly sharing Reeks vast knowledge of art and the sciences interspersed with facts and figures covering many centuries. Reek managed to surprise and confuse me at the same time. It is as weird and confusing as is its predecessor’s song by the group, Landscape also called, ‘ Einstein A Go Go.’ (1981)
A discussion between students, Einstein, Marie Curie and Niels Bohr where they are constantly discussing theories and random possibilities, mixed within strange random journeys they take together through life’s various weird events created in Reeks brain. Everything is so cleverly written that it can be interpreted in so many different ways dependant on who is reading it and their state of mind. Be it sexual innuendos or the imagination of someone on a really bad trip. Not quite how I’ve pictured Einstein and his fellow colleagues over the past forty years. That said this is a genre I am not familiar with. I am certain that the followers of this will be able to spend many hours debating the many variables which Reek has exposed us too. It does work.
This recently published novel takes us places we would never expect. To some extreme adventures of the mind. I had to read it three times to give it an honest review. Just because I couldn’t understand it doesn’t mean it isn’t a great piece of work. It certainly is. Like most things in life if our mind is living in a certain world; war torn, drug fuelled, we would be able to adapt to it much sooner. The fact that this isn’t a normal novel makes it extremely thought provoking and debate worthy for the right audience. I can see circles of students still discussing its themes in twenty years on university campuses. It really is one on its own with a massive amount of work put into writing it.
You have to respect an author who has so much belief in his genre that he would write this. Is it for most of us, absolutely not a familiar playing field of reading? But the world is changing constantly, and this certainly opened my eyes to a different genre of expression one that I feel sure will attract many followers.
I can recommend it to anyone with an open mind who is looking to read Quantum Punk and see how they would interpret it.
I would give it 4 stars; it is only my lack off understanding that doesn’t give it a five. It is a great piece of work but definitely for a tailored audience.
Good Luck.
Veronica Shaw
Author
Intrigued, you really need to be to read this epic journey of the adventures and debates that three intellectual minds have stimulated in the authors imagination.
“An exploration of probabilities through Quantum Punk”
Reek Feel’s unique, interpretation of the world through the eyes of Quantum Punk certainly took me by surprise. A lifelong fan of Einstein this book really wasn’t what I expected. Initially I was puritanically shocked by it. But, read as part of our book club reading I felt I could respect their selection.
‘ Einstein, A Go Go,’ is a well written and researched novel, clearly sharing Reeks vast knowledge of art and the sciences interspersed with facts and figures covering many centuries. Reek managed to surprise and confuse me at the same time. It is as weird and confusing as is its predecessor’s song by the group, Landscape also called, ‘ Einstein A Go Go.’ (1981)
A discussion between students, Einstein, Marie Curie and Niels Bohr where they are constantly discussing theories and random possibilities, mixed within strange random journeys they take together through life’s various weird events created in Reeks brain. Everything is so cleverly written that it can be interpreted in so many different ways dependant on who is reading it and their state of mind. Be it sexual innuendos or the imagination of someone on a really bad trip. Not quite how I’ve pictured Einstein and his fellow colleagues over the past forty years. That said this is a genre I am not familiar with. I am certain that the followers of this will be able to spend many hours debating the many variables which Reek has exposed us too. It does work.
This recently published novel takes us places we would never expect. To some extreme adventures of the mind. I had to read it three times to give it an honest review. Just because I couldn’t understand it doesn’t mean it isn’t a great piece of work. It certainly is. Like most things in life if our mind is living in a certain world; war torn, drug fuelled, we would be able to adapt to it much sooner. The fact that this isn’t a normal novel makes it extremely thought provoking and debate worthy for the right audience. I can see circles of students still discussing its themes in twenty years on university campuses. It really is one on its own with a massive amount of work put into writing it.
You have to respect an author who has so much belief in his genre that he would write this. Is it for most of us, absolutely not a familiar playing field of reading? But the world is changing constantly, and this certainly opened my eyes to a different genre of expression one that I feel sure will attract many followers.
I can recommend it to anyone with an open mind who is looking to read Quantum Punk and see how they would interpret it.
I would give it 4 stars; it is only my lack off understanding that doesn’t give it a five. It is a great piece of work but definitely for a tailored audience.
Good Luck.
Veronica Shaw
Author
December 14, 2020
Wow, this book made me think. I love the tone and delivery. You can tell the author used the brain and did the research.
September 12, 2020
Tip your Topper and swing your cane as you experience this AnarchoSteamPunkBeatnikFootlightsFarce and bang those bongos (nice) as your Ringleader, REEKFEEL, leads you expertly through the last century or so using a deep knowledge of Art History and Science. Be amazed as the earnest young protagonists experience the Circus of Life, the Merry-Go-Round of Academia and the Great Illusion of education as they search for God in the cracks - even though God is dead right? - only to find themselves dodging the darkness of the devil and those that would use their exuberant quest and thirst for understanding to create weapons of mass misunderstanding (and who does Justice blame?). Squint through the hyperbole and you will see a genius at work. I loved it and will certainly be coming back for more of REEKFEEL-GO-GO!
December 20, 2020
New style
This was a very strange read and I've never read anything like it before!
The author created a Wonderful piece of writing in this quantum punk style and if you are into it I would recommend it as a read.
I also liked the creativity of the book as it flips styles many left me baffled.
The author left links to the website for guidance.
Read as part of a book club
This was a very strange read and I've never read anything like it before!
The author created a Wonderful piece of writing in this quantum punk style and if you are into it I would recommend it as a read.
I also liked the creativity of the book as it flips styles many left me baffled.
The author left links to the website for guidance.
Read as part of a book club
October 3, 2020
Marmite!!!
A single word headline but how did that word alter your thoughts. A single word can conjure up a myriad of thoughts when used in certain contexts. This is the third novel I've read by this author and, predictably, it's like nothing I've ever read before. Before you grab your teaspoon and bury it into the jar of writhing turmoil that interchanges characters with concepts and concepts with characters, I suggest you dip gently by reading the first 10% for free. You really must try that sample or you will never know what you have missed. For me, Reekfeel's unique quantumpunk is how I imagine crack-cocaine alters a user's physiological and psychological state. I find it totally addictive but I can only go under for an hour at a time. For me, this is not a book to gobble up at one sitting, like the contents of the jar, it is best served in moderate quantities to be savoured and digested as the after-taste fades after the dopamine high. If you are still interacting with this review, I will slip a hint about the contents. The early 20th century was an exciting time as modern physics emerged through the great minds of the time. Rather than always working together, there were conflicts of interest and philosophical belief. The raft of novel ideas are played out in a surreal performances portrayed in artistic scenes. Personally, because I have a physics background, I found myself distracted in the early part of the book by my unconscious bias. There is such a wealth of intellectual disciplines threaded in a complex weave in this piece of work, there is something for anyone who is prepared to raise the spoon and taste the complex flavours of this dark jar.
A single word headline but how did that word alter your thoughts. A single word can conjure up a myriad of thoughts when used in certain contexts. This is the third novel I've read by this author and, predictably, it's like nothing I've ever read before. Before you grab your teaspoon and bury it into the jar of writhing turmoil that interchanges characters with concepts and concepts with characters, I suggest you dip gently by reading the first 10% for free. You really must try that sample or you will never know what you have missed. For me, Reekfeel's unique quantumpunk is how I imagine crack-cocaine alters a user's physiological and psychological state. I find it totally addictive but I can only go under for an hour at a time. For me, this is not a book to gobble up at one sitting, like the contents of the jar, it is best served in moderate quantities to be savoured and digested as the after-taste fades after the dopamine high. If you are still interacting with this review, I will slip a hint about the contents. The early 20th century was an exciting time as modern physics emerged through the great minds of the time. Rather than always working together, there were conflicts of interest and philosophical belief. The raft of novel ideas are played out in a surreal performances portrayed in artistic scenes. Personally, because I have a physics background, I found myself distracted in the early part of the book by my unconscious bias. There is such a wealth of intellectual disciplines threaded in a complex weave in this piece of work, there is something for anyone who is prepared to raise the spoon and taste the complex flavours of this dark jar.
September 21, 2020
What the Hare?
This book started out as an oddity to me. At first, it was like trying to speak with the Mad Hatter and have a normal conversation, which of course you cannot. I would have to change my way of speaking for us to reciprocate and understand. I wanted to have a conversation with this book and for it to speak to me with its wild and ingenious prose; I wanted this inventive tale to tell me a story. As I read along, I began to switch gears from the traditional to the very unique and I got it. I got it like one might “get” Shakespeare if it ever eluded them. It was exciting with laugh out loud moments that I shall never forget! Thank you for this inspiring prose, the clever words of description, the humorous moments that made me feel moved to never try this style of writing on my own. What does it take to succeed at such a feat of imagination?! May we never come into contact as our own electrons may shookshake and destroy the universe!
This book started out as an oddity to me. At first, it was like trying to speak with the Mad Hatter and have a normal conversation, which of course you cannot. I would have to change my way of speaking for us to reciprocate and understand. I wanted to have a conversation with this book and for it to speak to me with its wild and ingenious prose; I wanted this inventive tale to tell me a story. As I read along, I began to switch gears from the traditional to the very unique and I got it. I got it like one might “get” Shakespeare if it ever eluded them. It was exciting with laugh out loud moments that I shall never forget! Thank you for this inspiring prose, the clever words of description, the humorous moments that made me feel moved to never try this style of writing on my own. What does it take to succeed at such a feat of imagination?! May we never come into contact as our own electrons may shookshake and destroy the universe!
October 4, 2020
Witty, intelligent and utterly original, I thoroughly enjoyed my journey back to the dawn of the 20th century. The style reminds me of A Clockwork Orange in that it is a language you come to learn as you read (you might also end up speaking in that style much to the bemusement of your loved ones but then you can just recommend they read the book too). Would highly recommend.
October 23, 2020
A light beam of imagination
What a creative play of words, concepts and perception. The author imagination goes beyond anything that you would think is unique and creative. Challenging the main concepts of creation and narration. Unique sense of humour. The book opens your eyes how others perceive the World that may look very different than what you think. Must read.
What a creative play of words, concepts and perception. The author imagination goes beyond anything that you would think is unique and creative. Challenging the main concepts of creation and narration. Unique sense of humour. The book opens your eyes how others perceive the World that may look very different than what you think. Must read.
October 5, 2020
For some reason, this book reminded me of the movie Time Bandits. I found it whimsical but nonetheless strangely entertaining. For fans of comedy, I highly recommend this book.
December 25, 2020
I read this book as part of a book club. Honestly, it was not my cup of tea. That said, it did introduce me to an entirely new genre I had never heard of before, “quantum punk.” Maybe of I had been more familiar with the genre, I would have understood the book a bit more. As it was, it did take me quite some time to decipher the adventures of Al, Bohrs, & Marie. But for those who enjoy reading books that are “out there,” (And I know you exist) this is definitely worth checking out!
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