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Summary: time travel lover
Review: I enjoyed the basic story in this book however Mr. Delacorte needs to get over his Reagan hatred or at least subdue it a smidge!
Sheesh, the repeated cheap shots and Reagan-ranting came close to ruining an otherwise good book. If you don't mind wading through the author's personal hangups then you'll probably enjoy the book.
The end of the book was like hitting a wall. I thought someone had torn a few pages out of my book. The "leave 'em wanting more" theory was a little abrupt here.
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Summary: I want more!
Review: I enjoyed this book a lot. I want the author to do a sequel. It could involve totally different characters who come across the repaired machine, or the same character doing other things.
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Summary: I want more!
Review: I enjoyed this book a lot. I want the author to do a sequel. It could involve totally different characters who come across the repaired machine, or the same character doing other things.
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Summary: Stopping Ronald Reagan
Review: I enjoyed this book. The main charactter is sent back in time to alter events so that Ronald Reagan does not become President. The use of old photographs works pretty well throughout the book. Its tough to further describe what goes on here without giving away cool parts of the book.
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Summary: A lot of fun awaiting a sequel
Review: I enjoyed this novel very much. I like the time travel genre in general, and found this particular work well-written with good dialogue and interesting characters. Additionally, the protagonist travels back to 1938 Hollywood, a fun and interesting era, and does his best to waylay Dutch Reagan from becoming president -- you've gotta like that.The ending was not very satisfying; there was no definite resolution to the narrator's dilemma nor was there a clever twist to make you rethink the events that had transpired. The work concludes with a list of questions for reading groups and a short interview with the author in which he says he hopes to do a sequel -- I look forward to it!
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Summary: Time-tripping with history.
Review: I found this book to be quite interesting. Though not quite up to the standard of other time travel novels, the book is an engaging read. The premise is this, a modern political activist wants to go back in time and keep Ronald Reagan from becoming President. However, he's not up to the voyage himself and convinces a travel writer, Gabriel Prince, to do it for him. Gabriel ends up making the journey several times because not only does he keep Reagan from becoming President, he also keeps getting him killed. Along the way, he also falls in love, and is pursued by a couple of 22nd century crooks who claim to own the machine. This book is a page turner and the pictures add a nice touch. I hope Delacorte writes a sequel.
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Summary: Excellent, despite a very disappointing end
Review: I had a very big dilemma about writing this review. On one hand, I think the book is very good. Creative, superbly written, realistic characters. However, I really didn't like the end. I'd say this book is a part of sub-genre inside the "Time travel" genre. I'm a time travel fanatic, I read any time-travel book I could get my hands on, And I've noticed that many of these books tend to concentrate on historic facts, as if to make the story "come alive". Well, "Time on my hands" is definitely the best. (MUCH MUCH better than Joshua Dann's series). The story has some unusual twists. But again, the ending somewhat ruined the book for me. It seemed to be a homage to H.G. Wells' classic story, "The time machine", which also had a bad ending in my opinion...pity. I just hope the author will live up to his promise, and write a sequel. And if that happens, I guess this review should be upgraded to 5 stars :)
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Summary: time travel lover
Review: I had a wonderful time reading this book! I stumbled upon it from an Amazon recommendation and have since ordered one for my son to read also. It was hard putting this book down once I started reading it. It's the kind of book that is very easy to read and you can bring it on an airplane trip and the hours just fly by! As I guess you can tell, I highly recommend it and hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
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Summary: What fun!
Review: I had a wonderful time reading this book! I stumbled upon it from an Amazon recommendation and have since ordered one for my son to read also. It was hard putting this book down once I started reading it. It's the kind of book that is very easy to read and you can bring it on an airplane trip and the hours just fly by! As I guess you can tell, I highly recommend it and hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
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Summary: It should have been a fantastic book.
Review: I love time travel stories and I love political stories. I should have loved Time on My Hands, but I didn't. Far from it, I found its characters, other than its hero Gabriel Prince, unidimensional, espcially the 27-year-old Ronald Reagan, who's portrayed as a near-retarded simpleton. In addition, the treatment of time-travel is confusing and unsatisfying. A truly great time travel story, in my opinion, is one where the time traveler acts in such a way that I'm prompted to say, "Yes! That's exactly what I'd do." Prince is the complete opposite. He's got a time machine, and can go whenever he wants, yet he rushes every decision. In addition, after doing a lot of very interesting things with prince in the 1930's, it seems Delacorte gives up at the end, and can't adequately resolve it. I finished this book feeling genuinely uncomfortable and upset. I don't think this book had a soul, and I think that the last fifty pages should never have gotten past Delacorte's editor. If you're a sucker for time-travel, as I am, you'll still read it in one or two sittings, because it's gripping, but if you're at all like me, it'll be something of an unpleasant experience.
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