Reviews for Pearl Harbor

The average rating for Pearl Harbor based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-06-11 00:00:00 Tony Geneau A road trip written with a 20-something sensibility. Not a work of genius. I enjoyed the writer’s use of language but found the tale, overall, rather tedious. It sounds wonderful in anticipation, but it did not sparkle for me. The author seeks out a fellow who had been present at Einstein’s autopsy, and who made off with Einstein’s brain. Paterniti befriends the codger—in his eighties—and they set off cross-country to California where the codger intends to leave the remnants with one of Einstein’s descendants. They have some amusing interludes while on the road, but I would skip this one. I expect that this writer will produce something of value eventually. If not, his considerable gift for language will have been wasted.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-05-10 00:00:00 Hannah E Kilburn I read this entire book thinking it was fiction! I just realized it is a true story. Wow. Well, how I write the review is now going to be a little bit different. The author took a road trip across the USA in the 90's with Einstein's brain in Tupperware in the trunk. I thought it would be a humorous book (see, I thought it was fiction!) but it's actually a relatively slow-paced story about a rather emo guy chauffeuring an old guy (former pathologist) across the states to give the brain to Einstein's granddaughter. Now that I know these are true people in this story, I'm blown away. Okay, they really did go see William Burroughs in Lawrence, KS! And I'm so glad the redheaded Sara with green eyes really exists. I'm still trying to process the fact that these are real people in the book. This also means the creepy Hollywood lawyer for dead star's likenesses really exists. Yikes. It's amazing that everyone seemed to know that Dr. Thomas Harvey kept Einstein's brain in his basement for 40 some years and no one really did anything about it. He hadn't broken any laws. He was the guy that did the autopsy on Einstein. Wow. And he is quite a character. (Apparently, not a made up character.) He is hard to figure out. A lot is going on up there in his head. His conversations often make no sense but he seems to be in his right mind. The author, Michael Paterniti, loses patience with him and his odd way of communicating at times, but he toughs it out because, after all, this is really interesting. This is a road trip we would all do if we had the chance, eccentric character be damned. So! Not the book I was expecting. Still interesting as a road trip novel, circa 1998. It's not edge of your seat exciting, but that's okay once you settle into the pace.