Doughnut
Written by Tom Holt
Narrated by Ray Sawyer
3/5
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About this audiobook
The doughnut is a thing of beauty.
A circle of fried doughy perfection.
A source of comfort in trying times, perhaps.
For Theo Bernstein, however, it is far, far more.
Things have been going pretty badly for Theo Bernstein. An unfortunate accident at work lost him his job (and his work involved a Very Very Large Hadron Collider, so he's unlikely to get it back). His wife has left him. And he doesn't have any money.
Before Theo has time to fully appreciate the pointlessness of his own existence, news arrives that his good friend Professor Pieter van Goyen, renowned physicist and Nobel laureate, has died.
By leaving the apparently worthless contents of his safety deposit to Theo, however, the professor has set him on a quest of epic proportions. A journey that will rewrite the laws of physics. A battle to save humanity itself.
This is the tale of a man who had nothing and gave it all up to find his destiny - and a doughnut.
Tom Holt
Tom Holt was born in 1961 in London, England. His first book, ‘Poems By Tom Holt’, was published when he was twelve years old. While he was still a student at Oxford he wrote two sequels to E F Benson’s Lucia series. After an undistinguished seven-year stint as a lawyer, he became a full-time writer in 1995 and has published over thirty novels. Tom lives with his wife and daughter in the west of England. As well as writing, he raises pigs and pedigree Dexter cattle.
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Reviews for Doughnut
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A creative book, but the ending was a bit of a disappointment. Some of the worlds Theo visited were quite fun and there were some amusing scenes.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I got through only a couple of chapters before I was convinced that what sounded like a clever plot was unsupported by the actual writing.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I like Tom Holt's literary flair (for example, "if energy and enthusiasm were money, he'd be Greece" or "it was as welcome as a Klingon battle cruiser at a garden party"), but overall, I felt sort of lost reading the book. For a large portion of the book, our main character has no idea what's going on around him - which means the reader certainly has no idea either - and at the end he understands everything far better than the reader can. As the reader, you sort of have to take the plot on faith and not think too hard about what's happening, and I didn't like having to keep it at arm's length. It's a really unique idea, and parts are fun to read, but it's not my favorite style.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I was looking forward to this one, having heard a lot of good things about Tom Holt's books, and I tried, 100 plus pages of tried, but just couldn't go on. Doughnut is the first book I have bailed on in memory, I tend to stick with them and often a book has redeemed itself after a bad start and I've been grateful that I had patience, more occasionally I regret my dogged determination. Usually though there is something to keep me clinging on, whereas with Doughnut there was nothing; nothing in the writing, not an interesting character, no intrigue, and most definitely not the humour. When Holt describes a guilty shrug as resembling a giant centipede pretending to be a human, I knew things weren't going to get better for me. I mean, I do get the image, it's just not funny. I felt in the company of a boorish, drunken, spliff smoking student union intellectual wittering on in a world of his own with a bunch of friends pretending to hang on his every word. I might hang around long enough to be respectful but then I'd take my leave; let's be honest, he won't notice I'm gone, and so it is with The Doughnut, life is just too short.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I didn't find this as entertaining as earlier works by Holt. Perhaps the hero was a little too self-pitying. True, he has been set up by his beloved old teacher to take the blame for the explosion of the Very Very Large Hadron Collider; he is bankrupt and his wife left him. But he does seem disinclined to exercise the degree of simple curiosity one would expect from a prize winning physicit.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5It happened again. I pick up a well-rated Tom Holt book hoping for an experience on the order of Flying Dutch or Expecting Someone Taller and it's just lots of...random stuff with dimensional portals that I can't be bothered to finish. Sigh.