Doughnut

Name: Doughnut
Brand: Hachette Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 2.33 (3 reviews)
Author: Tom Holt
ISBN: 9781478978312

Author: Tom Holt

Narrator: Ray Sawyer

Unabridged: 13 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Orbit

Published: 03/05/2013

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Contemporary, Humorous, Urban

Synopsis

The doughnut is a thing of beauty.

A circle of fried doughy perfection.

A source of comfort in trying times, perhaps.

For Theo Bernstein, however, it is far, far more.

Things have been going pretty badly for Theo Bernstein. An unfortunate accident at work has lost him his job (and his work involved a Very Very Large Hadron Collider, so he's unlikely to get it back). His wife has left him. And he doesn't have any money.

Before Theo has time to fully appreciate the pointlessness of his own miserable existence, news arrives that his good friend Professor Pieter van Goyen, renowned physicist and Nobel laureate, has died.

By leaving the apparently worthless contents of his safety deposit to Theo, however, the professor has set him on a quest of epic proportions. A journey that will rewrite the laws of physics. A battle to save humanity itself.

This is the tale of a man who had nothing and gave it all up to find his destiny -- and a doughnut.

About Tom Holt

Tom Holt was born in London in 1961. At Oxford he studied bar billiards, ancient Greek agriculture and the care and feeding of small, temperamental Japanese motorcycle engines. These interests led him, perhaps inevitably, to qualify as a solicitor and emigrate to Somerset, where he specialised in death and taxes for seven years before going straight in 1995. He lives in Chard, Somerset, with his wife and daughter. He also writes as K. J. Parker.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Manny on December 26, 2017

"So what's it like?" asked Not. "What?" said Manny absent-mindedly. "That book," said Not. "The one Noella gave you." "Terrible," said Manny after a pause. "Absolutely dreadful. Worst thing I've seen since Harry Quebert." "So that's why you've been reading it all day?" said Not, as her eyebrows did an i......more

Goodreads review by Melissa on April 23, 2013

My opinion of this book declined the further I got into it. It wasn't so much bad--I don't think Tom Holt is ever really bad--as that I just became weary of how Theo was so consistently dumped on by the universe. The whole thing about how everyone wanted him to find Max, his jackwagon brother, and h......more

Goodreads review by Kristofer on March 28, 2017

Doughnut is in the same basic genre as Douglas Adams. There is a plot of sorts which serves to advance the narrative, but the narrative serves as a sort of Christmas tree ornamented with various clever asides, commentaries, and general weirdness. I don't know if it is fair to compare the author to D......more

Goodreads review by DeAnna on July 07, 2016

Fun, yet ludicrous, SF farce. I think it's one of those "if this is the kind of thing you like" books. Which I did.......more

Goodreads review by Scott on February 25, 2018

Strange, English, offbeat. Kinda Douglas Adams (who is better at wry), kinda Jasper Fforde (who plays it straighter, if you can believe it), and not quite Monty Python (who are way sillier), but you can see them from here. Your stomach will not hurt from laughing; you will not marvel at the literary......more

Quotes

"Tom Holt's Doughnut presents a roller-coaster ride through the world of physics and the origins of the universe."—Library Journal

"A light read from the prolific humorist; a romp round the multiverse."—SFX on Doughnut

"Like the deep-fried snack after which it's named, this sic-fi novel is sweet and fun."—Sun (UK) on Doughnut

"Holt adds to his repertoire of comedic sf, one of the most difficult genera acts to master. Theo is an engaging hero; his brilliance is counteracted by his laziness and his compassion, which is matched by his sense of survival. Place this title alongside Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's Good Omens, Pratchett's "Discworld" series, and the absurdist works of mainstream authors such as John Barth and Gilbert Sorrentino."—Library Journal (Starred Review) on Doughnut

"One for physicists as well s Krispy Kreme-loving policemen."—T3 on Doughnut

"Blonde Bombshell is a clever, funny, tirelessly inventive, apocalyptic leg-hump of a book."
—Christopher Moore,New York Times bestselling author