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Dec 23, 2013mexicanadiense rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
I really like Stephen Fry, and I love historical "counterfactuals", so this rambling thought-experiment hit all the right buttons for me...until the second half when the action shifts location from a spot on mid-'90s Cambridge to a less-than-believable alternative reality Princeton, NJ. And the "happy" ending was a real head-scratcher, let's just leave it at that. One gets the impression that the author was pressed for time to get the book done and move on to other projects- what a curse it must be to be as clever and talented in diverse fields as Mr Fry is! Still, it gets my qualified recommendation on the strength of the passages about the life and times of young Hitler, and also Fry's chin-strokingly evil invention of the man who could have taken his place were he never born.