And The Walls Came Tumbling Down eBook Debbie McGowan
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"This is the natural order of things for each decision we make, there is an infinite number of possible outcomes, only one of which comes into being. It is an infallible truth; our future is born, singular. But for you, that is no longer the case."
Jack Davies led an unremarkable life, serving fast food in a nondescript seaside town by day and playing computer games by night. Unremarkable that is, until Professor Jericho ordered a sausage and a cup of tea.
After discovering he has the ability to move through time and space, Jack embarks on a journey to repair a tear in the fabric of reality, with only his high school stalker, a television news crew and a crossword puzzle for help.
With every moment of indecision, the problem gets more complex.
And Jack never could make up his mind.
And The Walls Came Tumbling Down eBook Debbie McGowan
I really liked this! So different from the other books I've read by Debbie McGowan.At two different times I even had to put it aside for a couple days, thinking I wasn't going to finish...because I felt lost and out of my element.
There were times I could have used a flow chart or Cliff Notes but I made it through! Well worth the effort.
Wonderful fantasy and so thought provoking. Makes you questions actions you've taken and second chances you've been given.
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And The Walls Came Tumbling Down eBook Debbie McGowan Reviews
Ms. McGowan is a brilliant author. "And The Walls Came Tumbling Down" is not her latest work, published back in 2010. Her more recent work shows enormous growth, but the seeds of her talent are obvious in this book.
It is a challenging read. The plot is confusing to the characters, and doubly so to the reader. It is about time, and not the linear time we all take for granted, but time which has infinite branches, that slows and speeds up. It's a lot easier to think about parallel dimensions, different spaces existing simultaneous to one another, than parallel time, which jumps forward and back, spanning as much as 2000 years in Ms. McGowan's book.
The point of the book is a noble one - that we have despoiled the planet in the search for minerals, gems, fuels and other treasures lying beneath the surface of the Earth. This despoliation has gone on for thousands of years, and the consequences have not yet all been felt. "And The Walls Came Tumbling Down" starts with just such an event. On a normal, boring, rainy day on the East Coast of England, Jack Davies toils, in boredom, behind the counter of a sad old cafe with dreadful dried-up, barely edible food.
Suddenly, the cliff on which most of the town sits starts to rumble and then collapse, with a huge boulder, big as a house, tumbling directly toward the shop and Jack. The only reason he doesn't die is that he slipped into a tear in the space-time continuum and was able to escape.
He's driven from the hospital (where he is presumed dead, but apparently was never there - now you get the confusion that permeates most of the book) by an exceedingly tall professor with gargantuan hands, to a huge mansion out in the country, far from the disintegrating cliffs. And that's where this very ordinary young man discovers that he is far from ordinary, but gifted with the ability to manage time and travel in parallel times due to his exposure, as a young kid, to a crystal with amazing powers.
Others join him and the professor, in short order, and if you aren't confused yet, wait until you read all the various explanations for the unbelievable capabilities of Jack Davies and at least one of the others who are now with him in the house. They include a hot young female television reporter who used to be a drab girl who followed Jack around when they were in school together, the man who saved him when he was knocked unconscious in the cave where the crystal lay when he was just a schoolboy on an outing venturing far from where he was supposed to be, and a full-fledged film crew from the reporter's TV station.
Somehow, they have to fix this rift in time and, in the end, they do. In the meantime, Jack gains a university education (in a parallel time track), falls in love with the reporter, and inherits the professor's mansion and land.
To be honest, any logical explanation of what's going on is beyond my ken or skills. The various explanations offered by Ms. McGowan were, at times, too confusing to follow, apparently intentionally. Several times, the author eloquently makes the point that we are so stuck in our perception of linear time that we have trouble understanding non-linear time. That's true enough. I still have difficulty with Einstein's Relativity and its explanation of the mathematical variability of time - not to mention his conviction that past, present and future all exist simultaneously, and that there is no "now". I admit, my poor brain just can't accept the concept, although Einstein has been proven right, over and over again and other mathematical physicists have expanded upon and confirmed the concept that time is relative, not fixed. Ms. McGowan has, apparently, based her plot on Einstein's theories as as well as Feynman's Sum over Histories Theory. More power to her, her mind is apparently way more open and flexible than my own - or she's just plain smarter than I am.
Even though she left me in the dust, I still appreciated her amazing writing skills. The characters are both three dimensional and deep, the places are vividly described with an economy of words and she covers both the courage and faults of each and every player without dwelling on any of it. She is remarkably talented.
The only thing wrong with this book is that, though engaging and thought-provoking, "And The Walls Came Tumbling Down" was not particularly moving. There is a death at the end, and it sort of left me cold, as I'm sure was intended. It was nice to witness Jack's growth, both intellectually and personally, but it wasn't particularly dramatic or triumphant.
If you're looking for a challenging read, enjoy theoretical science, like puzzles, or just want to experience masterful writing, you might really want to read this book. But if you're not looking for a fairly serious, intellectual slog, I suggest you try some of her more recent work.
I won’t even attempt to summarize the plot. Just thinking about it, again, gives me a headache. No, not because the book is bad, or boring. Quite the contrary, but temporal mechanics? I’m not a physicist, neither am I more than an amateur in all things Star Trek or other Science Fiction series, and while I always enjoyed Gene Roddenberry’s trips into the past, the one where Data loses his head in San Francisco (Time’s Arrow) after meeting the famous author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain (excellently played by Jerry Hardin) is an excellent example of what Debbie does. Lots of paradoxes and conundrums our hero Jack must face.
So rather than spoiling the plot, let me focus on what I consider important. Once again, Debbie successfully manages to describe the typical English countryside, it’s quirky inhabitants and the settings of each scene so intricately that you immediately feel transported (not by Scotty this time) to the lime stone cliffs of the southern English coastal line. Something is afoot in those cliffs, and Jack, age twenty-one, is selling fish and chips from a little shop nearby. Against his will, he’s drawn into an adventure through space (not planets, but within the area) and time, and he must save not only himself but the space-time continuum.
Now I can’t and won’t argue the physics of it all. When someone mentions string theory or quantum mechanics, I fall asl…..
Where were we?
Yeah, physics. Not my strong suit, but after having watched every single Star Trek episode (Inner Light, also about time travel, being my favorite one) and movie out there, I can attest that Debbie’s universe and physical assumptions are as sound, credible and believable as anything else I’ve ever read or seen. So let’s dispense of that.
The writing is fluid, filled with banter and innuendo and although And The Walls Came Tumbling Down is void of any romantic sub plots, there are plenty of other, interesting aspects of the human psyche and behavior that are addressed. How do we react in the presence of the unbelievable, the absurd. Different characters react very differently, some stoically, some nervously, some almost going crazy. Debbie is an astute observer of human emotion (no wonder, she’s a social scientist) and that, paired with her uncanny ability and talent to write some of the most extraordinary language you can ever hope to find in contemporary fiction, makes his book an absolute must read for anyone interested in what goes on in the fringes of the human existence.
When I say this book bares resemblance to The Twilight Zone, it is a compliment. I fondly remember that show and some of the episodes, albeit behind a clouded veil. It’s the emotion it evoked, that sense of horror and fright, sitting safely in a couch, with popcorn, watching things unfold. I don’t remember details, just the feeling of delicious fear. That is what Debbie accomplishes in And The Walls Came Tumbling Down.
I really liked this! So different from the other books I've read by Debbie McGowan.
At two different times I even had to put it aside for a couple days, thinking I wasn't going to finish...because I felt lost and out of my element.
There were times I could have used a flow chart or Cliff Notes but I made it through! Well worth the effort.
Wonderful fantasy and so thought provoking. Makes you questions actions you've taken and second chances you've been given.
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