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Summary: It wasn't that great
Review: This book started out okay but by the time I was half way through it I was wishing it would end. There were too many characters and the time travelling was just confusing. When I got to the end of Novel I was so thoroughly confused that the only thing I could say about this book was that I wasn't very good. I've read a whole bunch of other books by Diana Wynne JOnes and they were all alot better than this one. So instead of buying this one go look at the Dalemark Quartet, The chrestomanci series and Archers Goon.
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Summary: Love this book!!!!!!
Review: This is an awesome book!!! because I am saving for something else I do not own it but I check it out from the Newton library all of the time.It is about Vivian Smith a World war 2 refugee sent from London to live with an aunt whom she doesn't know in the country. As she alights from the train she is approached by a boy who claims to be her cousin Marty. He leads her to a silver capsule and brings to time City. A placewhere people can look out over and enter history. The city is in a state of Crisis but nobody but Vivian,Jonathon who kidnapped her and Sam their young friend know this. They spend their time Traveling through history in order to find the polarities that will restore Time City.The satisfying ending and the suppenseful story line make this one of the best books that of ever read.I thought that the book was still in print in England but unfortunantly not. review by Thomas otherwise known as SilverBlade
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Summary: A fantasic adventure
Review: This is another fantastic story from the pen of a consistantly astounding writer. Once again, it has the YA designation, but the story will appeal to fantasy fans of all ages. The story begins when Vivian, a young girl in WWII England, is sent to the countryside like most of the children of the city to escape the German bombing raids. She is suposed to stay with an aunt she's never met, but as she gets off the train and waits for her aunt on the platform, she is suddenly hustled off by two boys she has never before seen -and is brought to another time- another *patch* of time, to be more precise. As her two new unwilling acquaintances explain to her, Time City is a city that is built on its own piece of time, separate from History. The government manipulates History to the benefit of the human race, intervening secretly in wars to be certain of the outcome, and moving or removing people who might mess up the timeline. In fact, there is a trouble rising of an incompletely understood cause right now, and in the nature of young children Johnathan and Sam decided to take the matter into their own hands- and, because they really *didn't* know what they were doing (even though they were sure that they did), they have kidnapped Vivian instead of the true culprit. Conveniently, they have a cousin Vivian, daughter of their Uncle Viv, who is a field operative in the same time that Vivian came from. No one has seen since their cousin Vivian since she was an infant, and in an attempt to hide their wrongdoing the two boys decide to pass Vivian off as their cousin who has been sent home to Time City because of the German bombing raids until they can bring her back. What follows is a delightful adventure in an amazing city whose wonders will amuse even the most jaded science-fiction lover. The story is never boring and in her special, familiar fashion, the author skillfully juxtaposes the careless play of children with the sense of terrible responsibility that children often feel when the adults that they love are in more trouble than they can handle. This is another favorite of mine, and one I have read over and over again.
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Summary: One of THE BEST books ever!!!
Review: This is one of my absolute favorite books and is also my first Diana Wynne Jones book.
Vivian Smith has just been evacuated from London and on the train ride to the country side where a Cousin Marty is supposed to meet her. She imagines millions of things that could go wrong, except what actually does.
Two boys kidnap her off to Time City, thinking she was the "Time Lady" and was trying to destroy Time City, which exists in Time, but not in history.
After finally convincing the two boys (Jonathan and Sam) that she wasn't the Time Lady, they realized they're in trouble and can't take her back. So she poses as Vivian Sarah Lee, their cousin, whose parents are out watching time in the 1940's.
All the kids then, after finding a time egg, which allows them to move through time and as Time City gets nearer and nearer torward the end of its cycle, travel through time trying to warn Gaurdians of Caskets (which hold Time City together) that someone is trying to steal them.The iron gets stolen, as well as the silver, but they continue thinking that the Time lady had something to do with it, although a boy keeps showing up.
As time runs out, unsuspected people prove to have important parts and Time Ghosts are made.
This is an absolutely wonderful book, although some parts, mostly the very end for me, are a bit confusing and you may want to read it a few times to help clarify.
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Summary: How can they have let this book go out of print!
Review: This science fiction book is fun, perfectly crafted, novel, worth reading again and again. Apparently it's considered a children's book, but the best books are written for both children and adults, and this is one of them. Why did they ever let this book go out of print! (I'm lucky, someone found me a used copy.) I'm very happy to see that the book has been reprinted since I first wrote this review. I still reread my copy from time to time.
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Summary: I LOVE IT
Review: veery good book. dianne wynn jones at her best :)
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Summary: OK
Review: Wasn't that great compared to her other books. I was a bit dissapointed because I was expecting more of somthing like the Chrestomanci books :(
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Summary: absolutely wonderful
Review: What more is there to say? Fantastic, involved plot, interesting characters, very detailed setting, to summarize, it was simply superb! Most time-travel books are thouroughly science fiction, but this is the exception to the rule. To me, it falls more under "fantasy" although that may be because of my own personal bias. I won't summarize the book, because you see enough of that already, but just trust me- it was wonderful. The only problem I had with it was the cover picture, and that has nothing to do with the quality of the book (except you keep imagining everyone in Time City in clown suits the whole time)
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Summary: This book should NOT be out of print!
Review: When I looked up one of my favorite books, it said that it was out of print! I could not beleive it! If any book deserves to be out of print, this is not it. I am really mad.A TALE OF TIME CITY IS WONDERFUL!
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Summary: My favorite sci fi book of all time?
Review: While most of DWJ's books are fantasy, this one is pure sci-fi: there is no magic, just plenty of 23rd century butter pies (cold on the outside, warm and gooey inside: I wish the 23rd century would hurry up so that I can try one!). This is the story of Vivian Smith, a girl who is being evacuated from London because of WWII. Because of a mixup with names, she gets kidnapped by two boys from Time City, a metropolis located outside of time where the officials monitor time and make sure it runs smoothly. Unfortunately for the boys, the sons of distinguished dignitaries, their "playing hero" went horribly wrong and Vivian is NOT the girl they are looking for. By plucking an innocent person out of a time period that is already unstable, the boys have set off a chain reaction. Now they must work with Vivian to put everything right, before Time City itself disolves around them. This is a fast-paced and exciting book. I have probably re-read it hundreds of times in the past 10 years. Anyone who likes DWJ's other books should give this one a try, even though it's a little different. Anyone who doesn't like the fantasy in her other books should definately give this one a try: it's a great work of science fiction, and oh so fun. I normally really dislike science fiction books, but this one is very well done and avoids the usual traps of the genre.
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