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Summary: Loved the movie - loved the book
Review: I hate those sappy romance movies and novels but this story is one of my all time favorites. After seeing the movie over and over for years, I hunted down the author and the book and I wasn't disappointed.
This book fills in a lot more details than the movie(of course) - and basically if you loved the movie, you'll love the book.
The entire mystery of the woman with the watch and the 'what ifs' just captured me from the get go. You know its a doomed romance from the get go but the romantic period of time it takes place in just captures your imagination.
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Summary: An Amazing Love Story
Review: This book was just fantastic !!!!
One of Richard Mathesons best books ever. It was an easy read, and theres just not enough I can say about this book.Im not going to bother writing a long detailed description of the book, just go out and get it for yourself and read it. The only issue I had with the book was the ending. It was good, nothing wrong with it, just somewhat abrupt and unexpected.
All in all, greatest love story I ever read !!!
(Other than What Dreams May Come)
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Summary: Better than one suspects
Review: This book is a lot better than I expected it to be. It chronicals the last months of a man with a terminal tumor who falls in love with a beautiful silent movie actress. The problem is, the actress happens to be dead. By reading several books and listening to Mahlers 9th symphony, he manages to travel back in time to be with her. In doing this, he also manages to temporarily escape the horrible reality of his own impending death. But, like most books, the ending is not as happy as one would like.
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Summary: Entertaining Time Travel/Romance Novel
Review: Richard Collier is a 36-year old writer with a terminal brain tumor who falls in love with a beautiful actress - Elise McKenna. But there's one big problem. She's dead. She lived years ago in another time. But that doesn't stop Richard who figures out a way to travel back in time and win her heart.
Somewhere in Time is an entertaining time travel/romance novel. It's at times both humorous and tragic. If there is one problem with the novel it spends a bit too much time getting to the point where Richard travels back in time. In some ways this helps the novel because Richard uses mental will power to move through time and so the first part of the novel shows us how obsessed Richard becomes and lends believability to the story. The understated humor as Richard adapts to 1896 and in his encounters with Elise and her mother and Mr. Robinson (her manager) are well done. And Matheson has done an excellent job at creating the proper ambiance for the novel. I would have liked to have a more intimate portrayal of Elise McKenna. The first person narrative leaves her character a little less well drawn.
Despite these few quibbles, overall I found the novel quite entertaining.
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Summary: Flat and One-Sided Romance
Review: I saw the movie long ago, and frankly, I thought the movie was better. There is an old axiom that romance stories by women end in happily-ever-after and romances by men end in death, and that holds true in this case. I found the romance cloying, flat and one-sided. Suspension of disbelief is one thing, but a virtuous 1896 woman sleeping with a man she's known one day is another. I know this book is the precursor that laid the foundation for all the modern time travel love stories, but I still couldn't like it.
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Summary: Tiresome
Review: This was a short story padded to the gills to make it book length. That much becomes obvious midway through the book, when Matheson constantly repeats the same tired thoughts of the love-sick protagonist -- namely, that he loves and needs the actress Elise. Over and over again we are reminded of this, until I wanted to hurl the book across the room and shout, "Yes! I KNOW IT!" The love story aspect required way too much suspension of disbelief, and was far too cloying. I was practically choking on the endless dialogue and thoughts of the two lovers expressing their undying love for one another -- this after meeting approximately 12 hours earlier.If there was a redeeming factor, it came at the end, which was touching, and maybe even explains some of the unrealistic behavior throughout the book. But I don't think two nicely written pages at the end of the book justifies two-hundred-and-seventy pages of tiresome story. It would have made a much better short story; it would have been tighter, less tedious.
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