Making History (Repost)
Stephen Fry, "Making History"
English | ISBN: 0099457067 | 2004 | EPUB | 416 pages | 0,5 MB
English | ISBN: 0099457067 | 2004 | EPUB | 416 pages | 0,5 MB
The first half of the novel, which sets the scene, varies between being tedious and interesting. Several of the chapters show Hitler's parents or Hitler in World War I and introduce us to a person who will figure prominently in the second part of the novel, Rudolf Gloder. Strangely enough, the interesting parts cannot be said to belong only to the present-day sequences or the historical sequences. They vary without regard to the characters. One of the techniques which Fry uses repeatedly, however, writing three of the chapters as movie scripts, is probably where the novel bogged down the most, especially the final segment where Fry began introducing a lot of background and action which was not germane to the plot, or even a strong sub-plot.