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Title: Tom Swift And His Electric Runabout
Author: Victor Appleton
Narrator: Tom Weiss
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-12-17
Publisher: SAGA Egmont
Genres: Classics, World Literature
Publisher's Summary:
"Tom Swift And His Electric Runabout", or, "The Speediest Car on the Road", is Volume 5 in the original Tom Swift novel series published by Grosset & Dunlap.
Tom Swift enters an upcoming race with his specially designed prototype electric race car. But as he makes the final preparations and adjustments, days before the race, he discovers a plot that would bankrupt not only his family, but also everyone else that relies on the local bank (which is the target of a nefarious bank run scheme). Tom must solve the mystery and stop the criminals behind the plot before he will test himself on a 500 mile race against some of the best cars and skilled drivers in the United States.
©2017 SAGA Egmont (P)2017 SAGA Egmont
Members Reviews:
Tom Swift
Excellent! It was so good I think I'll read another one, okay? I didn't really like all that blessing stuff.
Good Book
Its a good book, though all this series is written for a younger audience, but, a good read nevertheless.
Yes, an electric car...
Once again, we find Tom ahead of the curve in various technologies and racing about in an electric car! This is an interesting piece of techno-history in that electric cars were actually considered viable long before decent storage batteries were available.
Five Stars
Good book
That Damn Andy Foger
Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat was the Swift familyâs biggest adventure yet as father and son built a fully functioning submarine and sailed halfway across an ocean and several miles under the sea. Itâs hard to top that and the author doesnât try. In Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout Tom builds a car. But this isnât just any car itâs an all electric car meant to compete for speed with the fastest combustion (and apparently steam) engine cars. It may seem impossible to imagine that in 1910, at the dawn of the automobile, that an author could be writing about an electric car but there was actual considerations given to going the full electric car route rather than combustion engine over 100 years ago. In fact in the competition Tomâs isnât even the only electric car being designed.
The challenges that Tom faces are the exact challenges faced by electrical car manufacturers today. How do you create a battery capable of storing enough power to give a car suitable speed and driving distance? The writer was also savvy enough to recognize that an electric drives nearly silently. Of all his creations the car might have had the most issues during development but most of those came from a nearly endless string of sabotages. Even complete strangers seemed intent on sabotaging the young inventorâs creation.
There is one aspect of the Tom Swift series that has consistently bothered me and that would be Andy Foger. Andy Foger is a typical red headed bully but hereâs something to note. Tom is not a child and neither is Andy. Both are arguably adults and Fogerâs âbullyingâ is often way over the line. In two previous books Foger has come very close to killing Tom Swift with his pranks and in this book Foger manages to get several dozen boys/men to kidnap Tom, tie him to a tree with apparent aims of torturing him. And yet every single time Tom Swift refuses to call the authorities vowing to take care of Foger and his pals himself.