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Creating an Industrial Empire in 19th Century Parallel World
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In a tragic accident, mechanical engineer Poul Nielsen and his best friend, civil engineer Jonathan Axelsen, are killed when a truck crashes into the coffee shop where they were hanging out. Suddenly, they find themselves transmigrated to a parallel world in the late 19th-century country of Avalonia. In this world, they'll need to work tirelessly to earn enough pennies to survive. But they won't settle for just getting by - they want to become the Edison, the Chrysler, the Rockefeller, the Carnegie, the Ford, and the Westinghouse of this new world.
In a world without electricity, Poul and Jonathan decide to start an electric power distribution company. But that's not enough - they also want to build appliances and motors to make their business profitable. They see the opportunity to revolutionize ground transportation, and they start an automotive manufacturing company. They tackle huge infrastructure projects such as metro stations, skyscrapers, bridges, tunnels, and dams by starting their own civil engineering firm. They even invest in the arms manufacturing industry.
But the road to success won't be easy. Fierce competition awaits them, as robber barons are willing to do everything to crush their competitors. Predator against predator, and government intervention. Poul and Jonathan must use all their engineering expertise and business acumen to navigate this treacherous landscape.
Join Poul and Jonathan on their journey to become the wealthiest men in the world in a parallel universe where anything is possible.
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Have you every read a webnovel where you caught up to the latest chapter and felt like you need to time travel to read the rest of the book or open up the author skull to get the rest of the chapters out? This is one of those books... Oodles of potential... I'm excited for the rest of this book!
It's entertaining, but I have several problems with the main characters and dialogue. The main characters don't question anything. They suddenly transmigrated to another world and didn't question anything. They just said, "Oh, let's Dr. Stone this [thing]," and that's it. There are no hypotheses, internal monologues, questioning, or anything like that. Also, I feel like the characters don't try to change the world; they only try to make money, especially given how they act towards it. Apart from the blatant [racial discrimination] that Poul receives, they don't have opinions about anything else. They are like: Oh, look, the streets smell like [unpleasant thing that smells bad]. Well, it is what it is. Oh, look, people look at me as if I were an [intellectually challenged person] because I don't know these useless and overly complicated manners. Well, I guess it's my bad. I'll learn. Oh, look, races are separated by hair color and skin color. Well, I don't care, I'm not going to investigate it. I'll just work for 300 chapters to produce more air brakes. I understand that the characters have to adapt, and it's the smart choice, but I feel that the MCs don't have any conviction towards their past lives and 21th Century beliefs. They act as if they were commoners in that world that suddenly gained knowledge from another world, instead of actually being highly educated transmigrators from our era. They just accept things, and we aren't explained why they accept it. It's just weird, and it feels like they are empty. I don't know how to describe it. The dialogues are sometimes too specific or weirdly structured. Instead of something being explained through the narrator, the characters explain it. But sometimes, it's obviously structured so that we, as readers, can understand it, which makes the dialogue weird because nobody would talk like that. It's like they are reading a presentation/script. Also, the MCs act too respectful, let's better say "agreeable", too much, not in healthy amounts I think, and while they have obvious flaws. For example, Poul is sometimes too lazy or too confident, and Jonathan is too passive or aggressive because of his position of being unable to use his knowledge. However, the characters never swear or do anything that a normal person would do, not that I expect every single person to swear or do crazy [thing] or something, but they don't act like normal 30 year olds would do. It's weird how they act, it's just so bland, so simple. Maybe it's my prejudice towards the societal norms of the past, but I, for example, would have never acted as a "gentleman" according to the definition of the time, not the idealized version of today. Why? Because I believe that how I act is acceptable, not how they acted. Even if it harms my business, why should that matter? I possess knowledge and, regardless of how foolish I may appear, if I have enough money to produce them, people will still purchase my products because they are that awesome, even if I am an eccentric, weird and disrespectful piece of [thing that's really dirty] (for them) (There's tons of examples of weird people that are genius and earned a ton of money). Obviously, I don't expect the main characters to act like I would, but they bent too much, they concede too much, and we aren't never explained why. (I had to post and delete my review two times because my review didn't appear for... some reason. My bad.)
Very interesting story. After electricity, you can create the first Ford Model T he rode on ethonol "alcohol". in the history of the United States, the automobile has played the backbone in industrialization. I hope the author takes this into account. If you need to know about the history of the car, then there is a blogger on YouTube (АСАФЬЕВ СТАС)
Novel is quite bland. It is rarely enjoyable. The primary concern is that the writing quality is quite low. Author constantly pads the word count with completely nonsensical and useless information which has no impact on the story, coupled with repetition. You can have entire chapters that are nothing but fillers. I will give the most "on-the-nose" example (I just copy-pasted, this is really how it was written in the novel): "Well, my partner has performed some calculations, and he has determined that we will require ten million dollars to mass-produce this rifle. Will the government be willing to add three million dollars?" Poul inquired. Sherman paused for a moment, carefully considering the offer. "If we provide you with ten million dollars, you will be able to mass-produce this rifle. Is that correct?" "Yes," Poul replied "we will need ten million dollars to mass-produce this rifle. Is the government willing to add three million dollars?" Poul asked. Sherman was silent for a moment, pondering the offer. "If we give you ten million dollars, you will be able to mass-produce that rifle. Is that what you are saying?"
It's a good novel, but I must say that the Poul has no spine whatsoever. The fact that he apologizes for the discrimination he faced is disappointing and frustrating. I do not care if it was to save their face. In the end, he has no dignity. It's a like a white woman calling a black man the N-word. Afterward, the black man will apologize for his reasonable and justified outburst of such words. And also, these character seems to be conservative in the sense that they're okay with all the struggles the marginalized face as long as they remain in their position.
This is the second time I am giving a novel a five star rating. It is more realistic and entertaining compared to Reincarnated as an Imperial Prince. In fact I believe it can surpass the latter story.
The MOST BORING. good book i have read ever. There is no drama. There is no tension, there no thrilling moments & there are no ingenious/ devious/ brilliant manuvrrs. The dialogues are bog standard. This like a daily log of an average business tycoon. (I.e. boring) whenever the face an adversary or injustice they fold. Grovel scurry away. If i wanted to read about that i would have read the news. Omg. They wrote a company vision and mission statement. That is most boring, nonsensical, bog standard, corporate-lingo-bs i have ever read in my life. That sums up everything about this story. Mediocre
I am baffled by some of the decisions of this story. When selecting to introduce a female character, they know are spying on them, but yet main characters are just chosing to ignore it. They start acting stupid, and gets bossed around by a secretary... They are supposed to be smart, VERY smart, and have a large base of knowledge to base their decisions on. But yet, it just derails the story in my opinion. It feels like the focus just shifts.
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I say it's a good novel because of the author's tenacity to see the novel through and backed by quiteadequate skills. However, the same as most of the concerns in the review section, the MCs have inconcistent character designs. It just feels weird how they seem to be bendable to the view of the current time. Like apart from their modern knowledge, they don't reflect any modern behaviours or ideologies from our society. They feel as if a character from the 19th century suddenly receiving engineering knowledges rather than someone from the modern society that tranmigrated to the 19th century. And this defect in their designs shows how they have weak views or will coming form the modern era when they became massive simps for Carolone and Amelia. Even if Amelia wasn't a spy to their comapny or Caroline is a reincarnated individual, bruh you can't be that naive of accepting Amelia to your company when both you(MCs) and Caroline are trying to create legacies that both you only have. They don't have the sense of wariness one would expect from someone coming from the modern era who have seen it all.
A good and interesting novel held back by pointless scenes and sudden drops in MC's IQ. The story is great and it's fun to see the 2 MCs change the world and get rich. Sadly, they don't always seem as intelligent as they should be considering their background in the real world. Writing quality is fine, though you might get irked by sudden mixing of 1st person and 3rd person in a few para. Good luck to the author.
Well, I don't have much to say so I'll just inform any readers that stumble upon my comment of the following words: I'd like to tell you all that this story has such a huge amount of potential and that I hope that the author stays consistent and doesn't drop this story, anyways, that's all.
this is actually amazing if not perfect, but the only thing im wondering is though if they would surivive long enough to create supersonic jets/other modern technology
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What the author said is no cheats i call BS since being the protagonist makes you the cheat
I thoroughly enjoyed the transmigration ideas to enhance one's life going on in the story. I only despair that this series has gone on a long hiatus.
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I’m just leaving this here so when someone reads the chapters up ahead, they can tell me when they both get famous and powerful(I DO WANT SPOLIERS😤😤😤😤😇)
i like this novel, not many novel like this. its all about developing and changing the world. and mostly no magic or fantasy here. BTW i love Reincarnated as an imperial prince
Here is my insight of this novel of mine. Okay the story follows to talented engineers from the modern world that got whisked into another world after getting hit by a truck. They woke up in an unknown feeble body living in the parallel late nineteenth century america. They are forced to survive by working like everybody else and few years later, they started their own company. Now the reason why I wrote this novel is because I was looking for this type of story. But there was no luck, there are some but it was staged in medieval fantasy, realistic medieval otome or villainess, or even ancient times. Most often, the characters are reborn into noble family, sometimes it's more of a kingdom building. Those are in the mainstream and I wanted new ones. And then there is this anime called Ascendance of Bookworm. If you don't know about it, it's about a nerd girl teenager who transmigrated as Myne. She used her modern knowledge to get ahead of others like inventing papers, hairclips, soaps and shampoo. And there I wondered, what if instead of medieval age, what if I set the story, two or three century ahead? Like late nineteenth century? A period of rapid industrialization, scientific advancement, and social change. Why settle for papers when you can build the first automobiles, a more cooler guns, aircrafts, electricity, and oil and gas. And make it a business novel where they used their modern knowledge to churn out modern technology that is decades ahead of others. And the result is this. Well, this novel is a more of a slice-of-life, I think you know what that means. There will be antagonist, challenges, and the characters resolved it, and then there will be another. So expect that this novel will last hundred more chapters. Expect a lot of timeskips. Well, they are dealing with technology here that can't be built in a day or a week, so instead of me describing their everyday life on every chapter, why not do a timeskip right? Romance? Hmm...there will be romance for each of our main characters and their own moments but they are not the focus, but you'll see me often teasing it. About the setting. Well, it's a parallel late nineteenth century so expect some similarities to our own world history. While this novel may feature a character with the same name as a famous historical figure, please be advised that any similarities in personality, behavior, or appearance are purely coincidental and should not be taken as an accurate representation of the real person. And that's it, I hope you enjoy this novel. If you are reader of RIP, you'll enjoy this. Think of it as the main characters building the Imperial Dynamic Systems.
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