Christopher Meeks's Reviews
Reviews of Christopher’s Work
Feb.29.2012
Published by Miraculous!
Love At Absolute Zero is the story of Gunnar Gunderson, a 32-year-old physicist at the University of Wisconsin. The moment he's given tenure at the university, he can only think...
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Feb.29.2012
Published by Cocktails and Books
This was a book that had me laughing and then cringing because Gunnar reminded me of some individuals I know who resembled poor Gunnar in more ways than one.
Gunnar is a scientist...
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Feb.08.2012
Published by Goodreads
FIVE STARS!
It has been a long time since I read a book and laughed this much. The premise is fantastic--science guy searches for love using the scientific method. There is...
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Feb.02.2012
Published by Book Geeks (UK)
Remember when you used to hang out at the local boozer hoping to bump into this guy or gal who you couldn’t get out of your head but who refused to do much except play mind games...
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Dec.28.2011
Published by Cookie's Book Club
I’m always on the prowl for well-written short stories. In 2011, I stumbled upon a volume that became my favorite find of the entire year. No, make that my favorite find of the...
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Nov.10.2011
Published by Amazon
FIVE STARS
After enjoying Christopher Meeks' cleverly self-deprecating short story collection The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea, I decided to pick up his novel Love at...
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Nov.02.2011
Published by Musings of a Bookish Kitty
You wake up one morning and everything seems typical. It's just an ordinary day. You expect the worst only to be rewarded with a promotion--or in Gunnar's case, tenure. Suddenly...
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Oct.30.2011
Published by BookTrib Review Crew
Five Stars!
Three cheers for Christopher Meeks and his wildly entertaining picaresque novel about the gentle, bumbling hero physicist Gunnar Gunderson’s quest for love and...
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Oct.29.2011
Published by Caribousmom
He knew the way to find the right person. He should use the same approach that had always served him well: the scientific method. Use the scientific method for love. – from...
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Oct.16.2011
Published by Goodreads
With some books, you can sense in advance that you are in for a reader's treat, that you will be taken outside your normal reading zone and sent on an involving and entertaining...
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Oct.14.2011
Published by Drey's Library
Gunnar Gunderson is a geek (yes, he is) who gets hit with the revelation that he doesn't want to live out the rest of his life alone. So he decides it's time to find love. But...
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Sep.28.2011
Published by Book Club Classics
When Christopher Meeks contacted me because his latest novel was soon to published, I was thrilled. I had read and reviewed two of his earlier works — The Brightest Moon of the...
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Sep.23.2011
Published by This Miss Loves to Read
Love at Absolute Zero is a gem of a book, and as I rarely begin a review with such a direct declaration, you can be sure that I truly enjoyed reading this story, from the first to...
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Sep.21.2011
Published by She Treads Softly
The premise behind Christopher Meeks's novel Love At Absolute Zero intrigued me right from the start. I know scientifically inclined geeks rather well and will admit...
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Sep.16.2011
Published by The Raabe Review
“If the experiments do not bear out the hypothesis, the hypothesis must be rejected or modified.”
- From the Scientific Method
When physicist Gunnar Gunderson decides it’s time to...
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'Love At Absolute Zero' is a gift--and one of the many that continue to emerge from the pen and mind and brilliant trait for finding the humor in life that makes him so genuinely fine a writer.”
—Critic Grady Harp, Top-Ten Amazon reviewer
About Christopher
Christopher Meeks writes short fiction and novels. His book of short stories, The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea earned great reviews including the Los Angeles Times ("poignant and wise") and a blurb in Entertainment Weekly that said, "A...
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