our first review
Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2011 3:35 amHere it is folks
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/49963
What do you think of our first official review?
"Review by: Johnny Mirehiel on May 02, 2011 : (no rating)
Thomas Townsend Brown is the title character of this eminently readable short memoir, penned by his daughter, Linda. Brown was a world class physicist (perhaps most well known for his alleged connection to “the Philadelphia Experiment”) who led a double, or even triple life as a family man, a mild mannered scientist/inventor, and an intelligence agent for a number of American's most secretive 3-letter agencies. Although he tried to maintain some semblance of a normal home life, his peripatetic career often took him away from his small family, sometimes for extended periods of time. And thus the title.
But this is not a story about "Doc Brown." Rather, it is built largely upon the memories and notebooks of his daughter who at one time had served as her father's research assistant, his private secretary and as the archivist of his life and work. Ms. Brown's touching and intimate recollections wend their way from a toddler's earliest memories in the then remote wilds of post-war Hawaii, through her hectic teen years and her early marriage, to this current effort to tell her own, unique story. Along the way we meet her gentle and perceptive mother, her teenage heartthrob, J.D. Garrett, who actually achieves his life-long ambition to become a modern James Bond, her husband, George, an individual coping with things far out of his ken, and a string of characters ranging from flamboyant girlfriends to prominent Generals to well known scientists to high-powered industrialists and covert operatives serving in several of the same clandestine agencies that employed her father. And of course we get to know some of the inner workings and day to day charm, gentility, wit, wisdom and foibles of her genius father.
Those who want inside details about Townsend's Brown's secret research will be disappointed in this book. However, those looking for a well written, heartfelt story should certainly enjoy it.
(reviewed within a month of purchase
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/49963
What do you think of our first official review?
"Review by: Johnny Mirehiel on May 02, 2011 : (no rating)
Thomas Townsend Brown is the title character of this eminently readable short memoir, penned by his daughter, Linda. Brown was a world class physicist (perhaps most well known for his alleged connection to “the Philadelphia Experiment”) who led a double, or even triple life as a family man, a mild mannered scientist/inventor, and an intelligence agent for a number of American's most secretive 3-letter agencies. Although he tried to maintain some semblance of a normal home life, his peripatetic career often took him away from his small family, sometimes for extended periods of time. And thus the title.
But this is not a story about "Doc Brown." Rather, it is built largely upon the memories and notebooks of his daughter who at one time had served as her father's research assistant, his private secretary and as the archivist of his life and work. Ms. Brown's touching and intimate recollections wend their way from a toddler's earliest memories in the then remote wilds of post-war Hawaii, through her hectic teen years and her early marriage, to this current effort to tell her own, unique story. Along the way we meet her gentle and perceptive mother, her teenage heartthrob, J.D. Garrett, who actually achieves his life-long ambition to become a modern James Bond, her husband, George, an individual coping with things far out of his ken, and a string of characters ranging from flamboyant girlfriends to prominent Generals to well known scientists to high-powered industrialists and covert operatives serving in several of the same clandestine agencies that employed her father. And of course we get to know some of the inner workings and day to day charm, gentility, wit, wisdom and foibles of her genius father.
Those who want inside details about Townsend's Brown's secret research will be disappointed in this book. However, those looking for a well written, heartfelt story should certainly enjoy it.
(reviewed within a month of purchase