Thunderstruck

This week I started Thunderstruck by Erik Larson. So far, it has detailed the beginning of the voyage aboard a large vessel in the sea. It then cut back to the beginning of wireless transfers of data or anything. Guglielmo Marconi is on a hunt, an obsessive one, to be the first to send communication wirelessly. This fascinates him and be become enthralled in it, losing weight and becoming frantic to not be beaten to the discovery. So far, it is interesting. It is written similarly to The Devil in the White City, also written by Erik Larson, in the sense that it details two different stories at the same time. This creates an interesting twist on the story. However, in this book, there are many years between the different events, so it seems more forced than it was for Devil in the White City. More next time.