Misspent youth

Hardcover, 357 pages

English language

Published Nov. 9, 2002 by Macmillan.

ISBN:
978-0-333-90070-3
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OCLC Number:
50270397

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3 stars (15 reviews)

Readers have learned to expect the unexpected from Peter F. Hamilton. Now the master of space opera focuses on near-future Earth and one most unusual family. The result is a coming-of-age tale like no other. By turns comic, erotic, and tragic, Misspent Youth is a profound and timely exploration of all that divides and unites fathers and sons, men and women, the young and the old.2040. After decades of concentrated research and experimentation in the field of genetic engineering, scientists of the European Union believe they have at last conquered humankind's most pernicious foe: old age. For the first time, technology holds out the promise of not merely slowing the aging process but actually reversing it. The ancient dream of the Fountain of Youth seems at hand.The first subject for treatment is seventy-eight-year-old philanthropist Jeff Baker. After eighteen months in a rejuvenation tank, Jeff emerges looking like a twenty-year-old. And …

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I started reading the book without checking other people's reviews and after three of four chapters I thought it was pretty weak, so I took a look on goodreads and saw that a lot of people complained about it. I went on and gave the book a chance even if it was getting more and more predictable. Then I stopped when the inevitable happened, the Jeff and Annabelle affair... It felt so cheap that I immediately closed the book and started another.

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