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Summary: Great Adventure
Review: This was a total blast. Except for a very short meandering spot midway through I smiled at our hero's adventures for the better part of a week. What's to say - except that if you're a "time travel" nut who is more into plot twists & "story" rather than techno-physics stuff you'll eat this one up. Perhaps the ending is a bit maddening. On the other hand it makes one cry for the sequel. If one IS in the works I hope that he's thinking of Bush this time. - Oooh, if it were only possible!
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Summary: time on my hands
Review: This was light entertainment that ultimately disappointed. Borrowing heavily from Replay, Back to the Future, and Jack Finney (old photos to lend credibility) this comes across as the plot of a Quantum Leap episode. However, the highly negative opinions expressed about a highly regarded American are too heavily handed and the main character has some glaring character flaws that are too easily glossed over. I missed the bantering between Sam and Al. Needs a sequel to remedy the letdown of not even a hint of a solution. If you want to devise your own alternative endings then write your own story! Again, ok for an afternoon on the veranda but I preferred the Delorean over the boat. Keep trying Peter, Matheson and Finney are hard to match.
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Summary: A well crafted, fascinating story.
Review: Time travel has always fascinated the human spirit and captured the imagination of not a few writers. Jack Finney may be the most well known and capable at his craft, but Peter Delacorte earns high marks for this story of time travel to the 1930's Hollywood. Delacorte has grappled well with the consequences of travel in time and leaves much unanswered, which is as it should be. The Hollywood of yesteryear is captured here in small nuances that do more than descriptive prose. Not many books will
wake me at five in the morning for a good two and a half hour bleary eyed read
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Summary: You'll stay up late to finish this one!
Review: Time travel, romance, adventure, and the puzzle of how and whether we can change the past and future are featured in this beautifully crafted novel. Delacorte loves ideas and words, and both are showcased in this fast-paced, fascinating take on our strange, perverse, and wonderful species. TIME AND AGAIN is considered a classic, but Delacorte's novel is even better. Read TIME ON MY HANDS. You'll thank me
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Summary: A likeable time travel novel
Review: Travel writer Gabriel Prince, the protagonist of Peter Delacorte's Time on My Hands, spends a dreary afternoon in 1994 in Paris's Musée des Techniques. He encounters there the eccentric, 72-year-old Jasper Hudnut, formerly an academic physicist, who is intrigued by a jet-ski-looking machine he finds stashed in the museum's basement. Though Prince is a trifle unnerved by the occasional, near maniacal intensity of Hudnut's gaze, he accompanies his new acquaintance to a nearby café, where the conversation turns quickly to politics--specifically to Ronald Reagan's presidency in the 1980s. Hudnut would prefer a world in which Reagan had never been elected. But unlike your average embittered liberal, content to complain about Reagan's ascendancy, Hudnut means to prevent it.So begins Delacorte's delightful time travel novel, which is at least as likeable as Jack Finney's classic Time and Again--even for readers who do not share Hudnut's political views. Told in the first person, the book is Prince's account of his journey, at Hudnut's urging, to 1938 Hollywood, where the likes of Humphrey Bogart and Errol Flynn, not to mention B movie star "Dutch" Reagan, can regularly be spotted in the Warner Brothers commissary. But changing history is not as
easy as it looks. Sometimes you don't get it right on the first try. Delacorte's plot becomes deliciously complicated as Prince attempts repeatedly to manipulate events to his satisfaction. The ending of Time on My Hands will leave you pondering the book's twists, and hoping that Delacorte means it when he says he'd like to write a sequel.
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Summary: "A great novel and a quick read"
Review: Very informative; I really enjoyed this
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Summary: from a fan of R.Reagon
Review: Well, I really enjoyed this book, it was very very entertaining. I think it is well worth a read , (even if your a Ronald Reagon fan like me) Once you get over Mr. Delacorte's politics , you will find an exciting book. I really like the "old timey" narrative, it adds allot to the story. when you finish you will be waiting for a 2ND book to come out.......
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Summary: Why?
Review: Why would ANYONE want to prevent Ronald Reagan from becoming President? Is THAT the premise of a book?? Has the author not benefitted from the prosperity and peace that era has brought? Who helped bring down the Iron Curtain/Berlin Wall? Perhaps we should time travel back to the Clinton White House / playboy mansion wannabe days. Swill at the public trough!
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