Good Benito

Highly impressed by the debut - Einstein's Dreams, picked the next published book by the author. Seems autobiographical. Bennett joins a university, and is entrusted to get a paper publication from the works of Professor Scalapino, who hasn't published anything since the university hired him a decad......more

Bennett Lang “wanted to burrow into his solitude and quietly celebrate physics.” He was a theoretical physicist whose “necessary equipment…consisted of a large stock of unlined white paper and a wastebasket.” When he solved a problem he had grappled with for months, “he knew something was true that......more

A plot that travels in waves, like sound, or the ocean. The characters create the plot as they move through time and space. A beautiful story about a physicist with pure intentions who attempts to control his environment but in the end cannot even control his own thoughts or actions. He learns that......more

I feel almost guilty recommending this book SO highly, because I feel that my personal connection to it is so dependant upon some personal correlation - to throw in the (non-dramatic) spoiler: the scene in which the protagonist has a FLASH moment of 'break-through' clarity while in the shower..... h......more