Physics Incarnate

The writing is incredibly descriptive and gives the reader a vivid image of both the characters and the scenes. The accents are also written well so you can kind of hear the dialogue in your mind. The combination of academia and superheroes, as well as the ambiguity between good and bad, as in the heroes aren't cookie cutter good guys, they're more humanized, makes for a good story.

A bit Fantastic 4, a little University drama , mixed with big bold science fiction themes delivered with truly unique prose that fits it's themes. Give it a look!

I really enjoyed reading Physics Incarnate despite the fact that I am very persnickety when it comes to science fiction. The plot is engaging and written with intelligence and the descriptions are vivid and paint a lucid picture of the characters and environment. This book is highly recommended.

My first impression of physics incarnate was that I was not privy to what was going on for a great part of the first few chapters. It wasn't until Chapter 10 did I feel like I understood what was going on, when the protagonist explains his superpowers to his student/girlfriend. The classroom scenes pretty much went over my head,with all the E=MC2 talk and all. I wanted to skip over some of them to get to the action, but the whole super-hero thing left me going "huh? What just happened here?" That being said, I think the action scenes were the strongest in the whole story. I didn't find the characters very relatable, and didn't come away with any sense of liking any of them. But for its genre of fantasy, I think it was well-written. Very few typos or other mechanical errors.

I picked up this book on the advise of a friend. I was a bit leery as I am Like to look at a book first and kinda skip through some of it before I buy it but I trusted his opinion and just bought it AS I started it I was a bit worried as the author used a lot of technical terms and i had to read a few thing over before I could get what some of it meant but then............ i found my self liking the main character more and more and found myself drawn deeper and deeper into the book the further I read. It was definitely not your typical science fiction or fantasy book. It brought in alot of insight on the way folk think and act in certain situations and some strong morale issues as well. If you could save the world would you/ If you could destroy the world given the right circumstances would you? What drives the human mind to do some of the things it does or doesnt do is always an interesting quandry. I liked this book I think other will as well I suggest that you try it and see

Imagine that you're stuck in a world with any and all possibilities placed before you on a table, including money, reputation, women, happiness, livelihood, and security. From these options, you're told that you can choose one of them, all of them, or none of them. The average man would accept them all, while the strange may accept none. To Emmett Eisenberg, the offer itself is the gain. The knowledge of an ability to attain greatness or failure, rather than any other tangible or intangible possibility, is far more than he could ever hope for. To Emmett, the only possible response would be to accept all of them and also none of them at the same time. Physics Incarnate is a myriad of cliched ideas that are strung together in such a way that, at the end of every new experience, you feel as if you should have seen it coming despite finding yourself blindsided. By cliched, of course, you'd expect an implication that the story is predictable and boring, but the style in which the ideas are presented is particularly original, shifting the obvious points, which are veiled perfectly within a descriptive prose, in a manner that draws you away from the expected portions of the story and to the characterization itself. Rather than simply reading about the trials of Emmett, you experience the tornado that is his thought process, and the uplifting emotions that push him forward as much as the deranged styling of a madman on the verge of the ultimate breakdown. Through it all, however, you feel a sort of positive-stagnancy towards his decline, like a scientist in the midst of an experiment. Rather than fear for his downfall, you feel like a moviegoer, curious as to how this character you've found so much relation to will cope with the struggles that he has, in all honesty, forced upon himself as a result of his dubious past. Reviewing anything is difficult, but I find reviewing Physics Incarnate to be particularly difficult. From the beginning, I felt unsure of what to expect, as the description of the story itself seemed more like the happenings of a daytime soap opera than an engaging story, but what comes off initially as a hopeful love story subtly spirals into a firestorm of truths that slam home so abruptly and powerfully that it's nearly impossible to take a break from reading for any reason. While many stories start slow, rise to a fever pitch, and then taper off into a digestible ending, Physics Incarnate moves like a heart monitor, sending out jolts of information until the heart rate increases to such a degree that it may as well be a thick, encapsulated rectangle of engaging plot that persists fully until the final statements rounding out the novel. The story is as much science fiction as it could be considered fantasy as it could be considered a modern exploration of the psychology of human breakdowns. It's heavy in description of both concepts and theories of physics, just as it very accurately delves into the psychology that drives men forward in their ventures, or causes them to run from their own potential. One could easily read the book for the sake of pure entertainment, gripping onto the description and occasional-violence to nurture the more primal desires. Similarly, however, Physics Incarnate could be seen almost like a textbook of internal dialogue, self-realization, and inevitable, painful acceptance. The raw, free thoughts of Emmett are used more often as the story progress, aiding in the ability to slip past his expressions and words and into the deep-seeded meanings behind them, shifting uncomfortably between his abhorrent past and, in all honesty, equally-abhorrent present. In the end, there's very little I could possibly say about Physics Incarnate that wouldn't give away some particular twist that was included in it. When I said it was hard to review this novel, my motivation was that the plot moves in such a manner that almost every detail, large and small, is a leap of progress towards the seemingly-endless climax, and I refuse to offer anything that might buffer the astonishment a new-reader may gain. Physics Incarnate is a novel suited for anyone. It has the basis to appeal to the young and the old, as well as the casual or hardcore reader. It reads like a movie plays, with twice the vivid imagery, and an incalculable amount of genuine character development that is bound to rope even the laziest of readers in with any of the several opposing and wholly different individuals introduced throughout it. This is a must-read novel. It's a basic thing to offer such a statement, but I think the meaning of it has been lost throughout the years of countless reviews, where someone claims that their opinion is the one worth noting and following. I'm not saying that. By no means am I suggesting that I know what you love, or will love, but rather that Physics Incarnate is an all-encompassing story that has the potential to appeal to anyone and everyone, and when I say "must-read," I very much so mean that in its most literal fashion. There's no hidden definition, and there's no reason for me to find a more convoluted way to say it. Read Physics Incarnate. You deserve to know its story as much as it deserves to be read.

Just not a good book, inconsistent execution and storyline. It reads like the writer was distracted and kept coming back to a slightly different book without connecting the thoughts. Don't waste your time on this.

Physics Incarnate by Jesse Pohlman The title hints at a book that is action-packed with characters that have special powers but, unfortunately, those powers are only occasionally used throughout the book. This is disappointing and the unnecessary details that seem to be packed into a lot of the book’s narrative did not add to its appeal for this reader. The main character, Physicist Emmett Eisenberg is the “incarnate” figure of the title. Emmett seems to possess an awareness of how objects work at an atomic level, though I was never too clear about how he came by these powers. He also has the ability to use his powers for “good or evil” and much of the story is taken up with him expressing regret at bad things he did in the past. There is too much time wasted with explanations and discussions in restaurants etc, in a book that could have had a lot of incredible “science-action” in it. As a retired Physics teacher I found a lot of the “basic physics” explanations tedious and a little patronising to the reader, but perhaps it is more gripping to a layperson? It did feel like a science textbook at times. Even so I consider that Jesse Pohlman has missed a trick in this book. It needs a lot more action and a lot less explanation. It is not until Chapter 10 that you really feel like you know what went wrong in Emmett’s past when he explains things to his girlfriend. I could not relate to any of the characters and felt quite neutral about most of them, apart from Maria who has more depth in my opinion, but I rarely cared about what happened to most of them. I think the nub of the thing is that the book is like a collection of events rather than a story that develops and builds to an ending. Plus, if the characters have superpowers, the reader wants to see them in action and be on the edge of their seat when turning each page. One particular thing was sending a foe to orbit the sun! There was just not enough in the tale about that amazing idea. Too much time was spent in restaurants talking about superpowers rather than expanding on the incidents when they were being used. Far too much attention is paid to small details, like who has what drinks and in what order; and who shakes hands with whom and again in what order. Finally, I found the telling of the story very jerky and clunky throughout. It did not flow at all and there were several strange expressions used that reflected a poor command of written English. The apostrophe was incorrectly used so many times that I found myself looking for the next error rather than following the plot. Overall this was a very good idea that was poorly expressed on the written page.