The title says it all. This is a very entertaining story, funny and original, a mystery and an adventure. It's vaguely sci-fi, but genre isn't what this book is about. The two main characters are brilliant. You feel for Abbott. You worry about Ether. But together, this unlikely pair just might make it. Good characters plus great writing is more than enough to carry most stories and ISTWATBBOD doesn't disappoint. It keeps coming at you with craziness until the very end.
A standalone darkly humorous thriller set in modern America's age of anxiety, by New York Times bestselling author Jason Pargin.
Outside Los Angeles, a driver pulls up to find a young woman sitting on a large black box. She offers him $200,000 cash to transport her and that box across the country, to Washington, DC.
But there are rules:
He cannot look inside the box. He cannot ask questions. He cannot tell anyone. They must leave immediately. He must leave all trackable devices behind.
As these eccentric misfits hit the road, rumors spread on social…
Dan Brown does it again! His books always take several years to write, probably because they're so complex. Robert Langdon's latest adventure is set in Prague, a beautiful and ancient city that was spared from the worst of WWII. Prague neighborhoods are intricately represented in dark, cold scenes, usually with someone chasing poor Robert and his female friend (this time a scientist name Katherine Solomon). The clues are there, but it takes a super sleuth to put them all together, and that's what makes every Dan Brown book fun (even if the science is over the top).
The world's most celebrated thriller writer returns with his most stunning novel yet—a propulsive, twisty, thought-provoking masterpiece that will entertain readers as only Dan Brown can do.
Robert Langdon, esteemed professor of symbology, travels to Prague to attend a groundbreaking lecture by Katherine Solomon—a prominent noetic scientist with whom he has recently begun a relationship. Katherine is on the verge of publishing an explosive book that contains startling discoveries about the nature of human consciousness and threatens to disrupt centuries of established belief. But a brutal murder catapults the trip into chaos, and Katherine suddenly disappears along with her manuscript.…
I love to discover an original storyline that I've never read or even imagined before. This one is quite curious and involves a unique way to imprison someone: strand them in deep space so far away that it would take a lifetime to get back to civilization. If that sounds intriguing, you may enjoy this unique sci-fi novel.
There are great deserts in space. Matter is not spread evenly. On average it balances out in all directions, but some regions are not average. For every dense cluster of galaxies in one place, there is a tremendous void somewhere else. There are no galaxies within the voids, no stars, no planets, and no moons. Scientists have theorized that anyone at the center of such an empty space would see only darkness in every direction. Even the brightest objects, they say, would be too far distant to be visible to the naked eye.I got a chance to test that theory…
A fog-shrouded platform appears overnight off the coast of Ecuador. An unauthorized oil rig? Or something else? Science journalist and popular TV host Sahalie Spark has her own ideas. The platform is no oil rig, it's the world's first space elevator, and she thinks she knows who built it. He’s even asking Sahalie to join him on a first ascent!
