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Summary: A PASSIONATE FANTASY IN TIME
Review: I WAS WONDERFULLY LOST IN EACH PAGE OF THIS BOOK. ANXIOUSLY WAITING FOR EACH WORD TO JOIN THE NEXT TO UNRAVEL THIS STORY, OF FANTASY AND OF LOVE , LOST AND FOUND, OF MYSTERY, OF HISTORY. I THOROUGHLY ENJOYED THIS BOOK. I SEARCHED THE LIBRARIES FOR A LONG TIME IN THE EARLY 90'S LOOKING FOR IT. I WAS HEART BROKEN TO FIND IT WAS UNAVAILABLE. BUT I WILL KEEP LOOKING AND WAITING, MY PASSION FOR THE STORY HAS ROOTS AND MY LOVE FOR THE STORY HAS BROUGHT OTHERS TO THE RICHARD MATTHESON EXPERIANCE. THANK YOU MR. MATTHESON.
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Summary: JUST AS WONDERFUL NOW AS WHEN I READ IT IN 1975
Review: This is a timeless book to be treasured by every generation. I will not lend this one out. (I did in 1975 & it was NEVER returned) This copy will be kept in a safe place. I have never enjoyed a book so much as BID TIME RETURN. I loved it, my Parents, Sisters, Sons and Daughters love it too! I will purchase a copy for my Grandson age 4 years and Granddaughter age 9 months. They will love it as their Mother (my Daughter) did & as I, their Grammy does. I can not say thank you enough to Richard Matheson for this very wonderful love story.
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Summary: Time travel and romance you just can't beat it!
Review: I read this book many many years ago. It was recommended to me by an elderly librarian while I was still in college. The irony was not lost on me after reading the book and I wondered about who the woman was and why she would have recommended that paticular book. As fate would have it I never saw the old woman again and to this day I wonder just a little about if I would find her young and beautiful should I decide to journey back in time. It's a wonderful read if you've got some imagination and romance in your heart!
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Summary: A Truely Timeless Romance
Review: Somewhere In Time (Bid Time Return) was by far the best book I have read. My teenage children also read it and they loved it too. (I lent my copy out years ago & it was not returned. I would love to find another copy) The movie with Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymor is a favorite in our home. Somewhere In Time is the greatest. Thank you Richard Matheson
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Summary: The movie followed the book quite well.
Review: I have a special place in my heart for this story as I was working on Mackinac Island, MI(where the movie was filmed) that summer of '79. I also met my bride that summer as we both worked on the island. We were there during the entire shoot. I then read the book after seeing the movie and was satisfied that they followed the story quite well. Jane Seymour has been one of our favorite actresses ever since. Back to the book, it did keep my interest throughout, even knowing what was to take place in the end
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Summary: Very Heart Warming
Review: I was amazed on how creative the Bid Time Return
was. The director of the movie had a good perspective and the right lighting to create
a movie from this novel. Once I read the book,
I had to pick it up and read it again. The
characters described the smallest details to
explain to us what was happening in the dullest
and darkest moments. I am 19 years old, I am sure
you will love it. It is a book for all ages and
hearts of all kind.
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Summary: A romantic trip back in time that will break your heart!!
Review: This novel does take some concentration to get through the first twenty pages but it's worth it. I urge you to resist putting the book down. The need for a dying playwrite to travel back in time to meet the one woman who has captured his fancy will melt your heart. The magnetism between the two is so well written that you will feel as if you were on the journey with Richard Collier. It's easily a one night read and I highly recommend it to someone looking for a good romantic tale to curl up with on a stormy night
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Summary: Adequate example of the genre
Review: This novel was somewhat disappointing although it did manage to convey some of the magic and thrill of time travel. I was hoping that it would surpass the somewhat trite film "Somewhere in Time" that was based on this book. Unfortunately, the screenplay was fairly true to the book and was ultimately somewhat unsatisfying. The narrative describing the protagonist's efforts to travel back in time were extremely lengthy and somewhat unevenly written. Once he succeeds, the novel is a generally enjoyable love story with the fun twists and turns and reverse anachronisms that these Connecticut Yankee types of adventures tend to provide the reader.
If you want to read the best of the genre, there is little doubt that Jack Finney's Time And Again is the finest time travel novel of this type. Finney's book is in a word - spectacular. Beautifully crafted and historically fascinating, it is the book most often referenced as the inspiration for other time travel works. If you like this one, you'll love the following - - -
Time And Again by Jack Finney - - -
From Time to Time by Jack Finney - - -
If I Never Get Back by Darryl Brock - - -
Possession by A. S. Byatt - - -
Time Out of Mind by John R. Maxim
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Summary: A haunting and heartbreaking blend of romance and sci-fi.
Review: Imagine a perfectly haunting and heartbreaking blend of time travel and timeless romance. This is what you will have the pleasure of reading if you chance a copy of Bid Time Return" by Richard Matheson. This book later released in hardback as "Somewhere In Time" is exquisetly crafted and unique both as science fiction and as a genuine and tragic romance. A dying playright sets out to spend the last of his days on the road. A Chance flip of a coin leads him to a hotel where
in the lobby he falls painfully in love with a picture of a beautiful actress who had performed there nearly a century earlier. His love for her growing inexplicably stronger eventually becomes obsession and through a series of subtle and haunting events he crosses the boundary of time itself to meet her and fall deeply in love. Do not expect a trite or trivial love story nor the use of the conventional time travel formula. This book takes a unique approach at the concept of time travel and love offering the idea that physically spanning time is not someting to be achieved through the use of advanced technology or the power of superior races. Rather that the strengh of the mind coupled with the power of true love can span any boundry including time itself to be connsumated. Written in first person perspective "Bid Time Return" will leave the reader with a lingering sense of wonder and sadness. Like waking from a dream of beauty and bliss or watching the last days of summer drift away. The reader will feel a sense of longing for the love they never had for years to come.
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Summary: "Somewhere In Time" Misses The Mark- Unbelievable & Overdone
Review: Richard Collins is 36 years-old, a writer by profession, intelligent, handsome and dying. He has a temporal-lobe tumor and the doctors give him 4-6 months to live. Richard has never been in love, and feels like he has not even begun to live his life, which is now doomed. He takes off, leaving his job and relatives behind, and decides to drive along the California coast, at whim, and write a book about the dying process. Collins stays at a turn-of-the-century resort in San Diego one night and there sees a portrait of a beautiful woman who lived and died almost 100 years before. He falls truly, deeply, madly in love with the woman in the painting and becomes obsessed with going back in time to find her.Now, I am a huge fan of excellent romance fiction, and novels about time travel fascinate me. Jack Finney's "Time After Time," and Diane Gabaldon's "Outlander" series are favorites of mine. "Somewhere In Time," however, left me cold. Actually, I found the book annoying and it is only because I am an eternal optimist that I finished it. The novel is written in a diary format. Richard Collins, the narrator, sounds appropriately desperate and depressed, given his situation. When he fixates on the woman in the portrait, actress Elise McKenna, he becomes obsessive. This obsession might also be appropriate. He is dying and he does have a brain tumor which could make him delusional. However, the reader must suffer along with him as he moans, (literally), for page after page, about how he loves Elise McKenna. Then we go along with him for yet another 50 pages while he repetitively attempts time travel. This is pure and simple narrative padding. Finally, on page 118, Collins arrives in 1896 and when the reader arrives there with him, exhaustion is felt by all. The meeting with Elise and their subsequent, very brief, relationship is simply not believable. And Collins is such a weak, almost hysterical figure, that if the story were easy to accept, one would wonder why a woman would fall for a man like him. I really wanted to like this novel but in all honesty I cannot recommend it. There is some excellent time travel fiction on the market - books which also include great love stories - this is not one of them.
JANA
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