Misspent Youth, Peter F. Hamilton
Misspent Youth, Peter F. Hamilton
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Misspent Youth

Author: Peter F. Hamilton

Narrator: Steven Crossley

Unabridged: 12 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/05/2016


Synopsis

2040: After decades of research, scientists of the European Union believe that 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 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 the change is more than skin deep. From his hair cells down to his DNA, Jeff is twenty—with a breadth of life experience. But while possessing the wisdom of a septuagenarian at age twenty is one thing, raging testosterone is another, as Jeff soon discovers. Suddenly his oldest friends seem, well, old. Jeff's trophy wife looks better than she ever did. His teenage son, Tim, is more like a younger brother. And Tim's nubile girlfriend is a conquest too tempting to resist.

Jeff's rejuvenated libido wreaks havoc on the lives of his friends and family, straining his relationship with Tim to the breaking point. It's as if youth is a drug and Jeff is wasted on it. But if so, it's an addiction he has no interest in kicking.

About Peter F. Hamilton

Peter F. Hamilton is the author of numerous novels, including A Night Without Stars, The Abyss Beyond Dreams, Great North Road, The Evolutionary Void, The Temporal Void, The Dreaming Void, Judas Unchained, Pandora's Star, Misspent Youth, Fallen Dragon, and the acclaimed epic Night's Dawn trilogy: The Reality Dysfunction, The Neutronium Alchemist, and The Naked God. He lives with his family in England.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bradley

It might be best going into this novel not expecting anything. I've only read a couple of Hamilton's novels and this time period or the ones following it directly is relatively unknown to me. Fortunately, that doesn't mean a dime to my enjoyment. As a matter of fact, this is pretty much a kind of fami......more

Goodreads review by Roger

Update - I tried to re-read this book as a lead-in to re-reading the whole series (there are new books!) and I just couldn't get through it. Maybe it's my age now versus when I originally read it, or maybe it's something else, but this time around I got about half way through before deciding it woul......more

Goodreads review by Chip

Very disappointing book - no plot whatsoever. The story was very shallow - man gets rejuvenated and becomes a sex crazed 20 year old. Some cool technology and interesting social processes. Writing was pretty good (but I expected much more since it's Hamilton) yet no depth. Lots of glimpses of cool s......more

Goodreads review by Forrest

This book is one I borrowed from my local library, but is one that I will be adding to my personal collection very soon. That said, this book is fantastic, which to be candid is what I have come to expect from Mr. Hamilton. I have read and enjoyed most of the other works he is known for such as the C......more