Reviews for The Life Of George Stephenson

The average rating for The Life Of George Stephenson based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-09-05 00:00:00 Karen Kirdem I could not even start, let alone finish this book! The first sentence and the paragraph that followed were so incredibly sexist, I had to skip ahead to the next chapter. After reading the Chapter title I decided I didn't need to read the book. Astounding to find such attitudes in a book published in 2002. Wake up Rumpelstiltskin!

Review # 2 was written on 2011-06-13 00:00:00 Rene Hernandez Robert Fulton was quite a character: bold, infinitely self-confident, lacking in personal integrity, and almost comically obsessed with ideas that never worked. He's the sort of shameless self-promoter that I would dismiss as a sleazeball or a quack if I met him in a professional environment. I'm glad this book exists, if only to reveal what sort of man Fulton really was. Several little things about this book annoyed me, such as the author's awkward system for incorporating contextual asides into the main story. Also, despite the promise in the title and the introduction, the book said quite a lot about Robert Fulton and nothing much about the American Dream.