Review: FINAL THEORY by Mark Alpert, Touchstone, 2008, 359 pp.
A scientific fictional thriller starring the real-world, much sought after by physicists, unified field theory. A thriller revolving around a real scientific theory written by an author who knows the science and can clearly write about such topics is a definite plus.
Almost all thrillers claim to be ‘fast-paced,’ only some accomplish this, which, I’m happy to report, is true of Final Theory.
I noticed some critics over at Amazon claiming that the level of writing could have been better, but I believe the book definitely gets the job done. And yet it is still pretty much your basic by-the-numbers best-selling thriller. (By the way, have you ever wondered if there are any thrillers that have not made the New York Times Bestseller List? Just asking.)
It must be said that there exists another level of popular fiction writing that deals in thrills, violent crimes and such that, although these works would not be found in a bookstore’s literature section, with the likes of Hemingway and Steinbeck, books that are still beach-side popular works, like John D. MacDonald’s Travis McGee series, but also offer up scenes where, say, two characters might simply be conversing while having a cup of coffee and yet the scene is absolutely riveting. Yes, still written in straightforward language, but revealing subtle layers of meaning, with stunning–your mind and soul shouting YES!–human observational insights.
I typically provide a political correctness grade. The highest grades for PC are A+, meaning a book offering something so politically correct that it becomes unintentionally comical, as well as a grade of A+(v), so politically correct, so anti-White, as to be vicious (not awarded yet, but have such a book read and in the lineup).
Mark Alpert’s Final Theory has managed to achieve a PC grade of A+. If you are interested enough, you can go to page 67, at least in my addition, second full paragraph. Or if this pagination doesn’t hold true for your edition, go to chapter five, paragraph eight, starting with “David saw her for the first time ...”
Not that the scenario described there is mathematically impossible, but you just know these things MUST go this way in pursuit of our Official Soviet-like PC. In fact this particular scene pushes PC to such admirable lengths that it rises to the unintentionally comical absurdist level of PC A+.
Who knows the motivations? They run from naive Utopianism to fashionable virtue-signaling, from career advancement, including Hollywood movie rights, to Multi-Marxism, Globalism, predatory capitalism and the like. Not to forget, alas, there is always the Tribe, who seem to have developed what some scholars (see The Culture of Critique by Kevin MacDonald) see as a defense mechanism that always seeks to dilute and destabilize Western civilization.
For centuries they (of course, not all) seem to have seen themselves as safer from what they view as our natural bad impulses if we are always knocked down a peg or two. Of course if any civilization, say, China or Japan, were to be continually knocked down one peg after another it could eventually lose all cohesiveness and be destroyed. Affirmative action discrimination, propagandizing kids about ‘white privilege,’ White guilt and ‘white deconstruction,’ etc, and, above all, open borders seem to have hit upon the perfect recipe for the demise of the West.
Many conclude that all this amounts to demographic genocide, or, as it is sometimes termed, the Great Replacement. Today we witness different phases of this process worldwide, in South Africa, Sweden, Canada, the US and the rest of the West, of course the process is hidden as much as possible by the Mainstream Media, mostly owned or run by, you guessed it. It is indeed the Great Replacement masquerading as modern enlightenment and selfless compassion and virtue, propagandized by everyone from Harvard to Hollywood, from preschool teachers to popular thrillers. In a way, we live in the biggest life-or-death thriller imaginable.
Once again–
FINAL THEORY by Mark Alpert, Touchstone, 2008, 359 pp.
Overall: 3 out of 5 stars.
PC Grade: A+= Political correctness extreme enough to be unintentionally comical.
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