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# The Invention Of Everything Else: Bard Fiction Prize Winner – A Lyrical Tale of Nikola Tesla, Love, and Wonder Paperback – March 2, 2009

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- **What is this?** The Invention Of Everything Else: Bard Fiction Prize Winner – A Lyrical Tale of Nikola Tesla, Love, and Wonder Paperback – March 2, 2009 by samantha hunt
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Just excellent, a great read.
  

*by T***G on Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2024*

This is the best book I’ve read so far this year. An excellent read and a story that will keep you thinking about it long after it’s finished.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Fantasmagorical!
  

*by B***C on Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2014*

I first learned about Tesla last July, at the age of 62. Why were we not taught about this important inventor in grade school? Ever since I learned about him, it became an obsession...I read a bunch of biographies, and then I wanted to read every fictional book about him. This was not a very long list: Tesla is still almost unknown.Others have summarized the plot of this book, so I won't go into that. This writer's style reminds me of Anne Tyler, with her portrayals of unusual characters and their off-kilter family lives. The surrealism is heightened by the author's unusual structural choices. Occasionally the storyline jumps into the past, and segues into Tesla's journalistic recollections of his own life. Further surreal touches are brought in with a section describing Edison's electrocution of animals and his invention of the electric chair. (Yes, Edison really was an evil and unscrupulous fellow, but TIME Magazine still sells the Edison special, and they have never done a Tesla special...go figure.) The sections written from Tesla's viewpoint are in first-person, while all the rest is third. Certainly not how they tell you to structure a novel in 'writers workshop'!Louisa was an engaging character, but the entire subplot about Louisa's father, Azor and Arthur, and the "time machine" weren't that interesting to me. Louisa's relationship with Arthur just didn't come alive. Other reviewers said "he may have come from the future", I didn't pick up on that. He was just a sort of wooden, blank character. I wish the entire book had been about Louisa's conversations and interactions with Tesla and his pigeons. Those scenes are marvelous. Tesla is wonderfully portrayed as eccentric, a bit scary yet fascinating, mysterious, wise, witty, sad and a little bitter, yet noble and resigned. I have read descriptions of the elder Tesla as physically frail, yet possessing a presence and a dignity that dominated any gathering. This novel captured that quality for me! Oh, if only I had that Time Machine, so I could go back and meet Tesla!

### ⭐⭐⭐ 3.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Excellent Story, But Could Have Ended Better
  

*by S***N on Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2014*

It was five stars all the way, until the very last chapter or so.  I LOVED the story up til then.  Obviously I was fairly certain that Tesla would die toward the end given the book opens on New Years 1943.  However, the whole side plot with the "time machine" and the death of Walter and Azor was an unnecessary complication and just left the book with a more depressing tone than necessary.  I did very much enjoy the parts written from Tesla's POV, some of the author's insights and thought processes were brilliant, and the relationship with Samuel Clemens, as well as Robert and Katharine Johnson, were excellent.  Overall, I would recommend this book, but not with the same enthusiasm I had before finishing it...

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