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Misspent Youth by Peter F. Hamilton
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Misspent Youth (edition 2003)

by Peter F. Hamilton

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2040: After decades of research, scientists of the European Union believe that they have at last conquered humankind's most pernicious foe: old age. For the first time, technology holds out the promise of not merely slowing the aging process but actually reversing it. The first subject for treatment is seventy-eight-year-old philanthropist Jeff Baker. After eighteen months in a rejuvenation tank, Jeff emerges looking like a twenty-year-old. And the change is more than skin deep. From his hair cells down to his DNA, Jeff is twenty-with a breadth of life experience. But while possessing the wisdom of a septuagenarian at age twenty is one thing, raging testosterone is another, as Jeff soon discovers. Suddenly his oldest friends seem, well, old. Jeff's trophy wife looks better than she ever did. His teenage son, Tim, is more like a younger brother. And Tim's nubile girlfriend is a conquest too tempting to resist. Jeff's rejuvenated libido wreaks havoc on the lives of his friends and family, straining his relationship with Tim to the breaking point. It's as if youth is a drug and Jeff is wasted on it. But if so, it's an addiction he has no interest in kicking.… (more)
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Title:Misspent Youth
Authors:Peter F. Hamilton
Info:Tor (2003), Edition: New Ed, Paperback, 448 pages
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Not a good book by any means. Hamilton's writing is weak and a bit unpleasant to read. Compound that with a boring story and not much value can be found. Nevertheless, setting the story only a few decades in the future was interesting, if only the comment on England's role in the European Union was not so clearly forced.
I really have to be more careful about reading such erotic books while traveling... ( )
  MXMLLN | Jan 12, 2024 |
An interesting premise with.uninspired execution. I wanted to read what life might be like for the first person made young again, but the actual story was banal and predictable.

This book is only 13 years old, but some of its ideas are already outdated. For instance, the author imagines a world where digital piracy has crippled creative industry to such a degree that new entertainment media can only be funded through product placement and embedded advertising. In the real world the scenario he imagines would be technologically possible, but it has not happened. In the time since this book has been written it has been demonstrated that many people will pay for things even when they could easily pirate them. Crowdfunding through services like Kickstarter and Patreon have shown some will even pay for things which don't yet exist and might never get made. ( )
  wishanem | May 27, 2021 |
A story about a completely reprehensible person and his mostly reprehensible family and friends in a near future England where government control and surveillance has gone too far. Rich people gone wrong should really be the title of this one, but it didn't make for great reading. The author actually warns us that some of the proof readers didn't like the characters - I should have listened!

Nothing wrong with the plot, writing or speculation on how tech will progress, I just hated the characters. ( )
  Karlstar | Jan 31, 2021 |
I started reading the book without checking other people's reviews and after three of four chapters I thought it was pretty weak, so I took a look on goodreads and saw that a lot of people complained about it. I went on and gave the book a chance even if it was getting more and more predictable. Then I stopped when the inevitable happened, the Jeff and Annabelle affair... It felt so cheap that I immediately closed the book and started another. ( )
  clmbmb | Dec 31, 2020 |
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2040: After decades of research, scientists of the European Union believe that they have at last conquered humankind's most pernicious foe: old age. For the first time, technology holds out the promise of not merely slowing the aging process but actually reversing it. The first subject for treatment is seventy-eight-year-old philanthropist Jeff Baker. After eighteen months in a rejuvenation tank, Jeff emerges looking like a twenty-year-old. And the change is more than skin deep. From his hair cells down to his DNA, Jeff is twenty-with a breadth of life experience. But while possessing the wisdom of a septuagenarian at age twenty is one thing, raging testosterone is another, as Jeff soon discovers. Suddenly his oldest friends seem, well, old. Jeff's trophy wife looks better than she ever did. His teenage son, Tim, is more like a younger brother. And Tim's nubile girlfriend is a conquest too tempting to resist. Jeff's rejuvenated libido wreaks havoc on the lives of his friends and family, straining his relationship with Tim to the breaking point. It's as if youth is a drug and Jeff is wasted on it. But if so, it's an addiction he has no interest in kicking.

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