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Summary: it goes nowhere
Review: I too am having trouble finishing this book...I just don't care how it's going to end...A tad boring but essentially harmless stuff.
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Summary: Gore Vidal and Time Travel -- It Doesn't Work
Review: I'm a fan of Gore Vidal's -- he has great wit and an understanding of history that can make stories from the past come alive. What better way to make the past and the present come alive than through a time travel science fiction book right? WRONGUnfortunately I have this habit of finishing almost every book I start reading. I finished this one and it was painful. Right of the bat, I was a little put off by the cover. The Harlequin Romance style artwork can give you the idea that the book will contain torrid erotic passages in the midst of the stuffy museum. Instead you get very tepid action that includes a high school age boy. The story surrounding that is even worse and unlike Vidal's other work, very hard to follow.
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Summary: A Tired Re-Hash
Review: If you visited with Vidal in "Myron" and "Live from Golgotha" then you'll find this book a tired re-hash of attempts to alter time and fun and games with historical characters. Same blase and cynical tone. However, what this book sorely lacks is a character with the style of Myra Breckinridge to handle the proceedings.
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Summary: Entertaining and irreverant
Review: Is this one of Vidal's masterpieces? No. But it is a highly entertaining and wickedly funny stab at a genre (science fiction) that takes itself much too seriously. Included are barbed jabs at the idiocy of politicians and the incompetancy of government. While there's not much to say about the plot, you can certainly enjoy the ride. And, what's with that dreadful cover art?
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Summary: a piece of junk
Review: Sure, if you can get past his stereotypes of Native Americans and other ethnic groups; his homophobia; and his racism; then you might actually enjoy this book. I take that back. Mr. Vidal is so full of himself, so self-conscious of his sentences, that its impossible to focus on the story. He's always smirking and trying to show why he's smarter than someone else. It might be better if he picked up some of the classics and learned a lesson or two. Is he iconoclastic? No, just close minded.
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Summary: Too Fantastic...Not Enough Substance
Review: The back cover of this book was very misleading. I thought there would be a lot of science and philosophy and thought-provocation. However, I found this book to be contrived and the ending to be obvious. I read Vidal's "1876" and found it very dry until the last 30 pages or so. Those 30 pages made "1876" worth-while reading. This book never had that allure. If Black Holes and the Atomic Bomb interest you, the book "Black Holes and Times Warps" had a better description of both.
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Summary: A metaphor for American History
Review: This book is Vidal comment on the american society and how it came to be - and could be, and it is about presidency and running the country - and overall, quite philosophical and insightful view on the american condition. I think the other reviewers fail to see the depth of the work.
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Summary: a touching love story...?
Review: Unlike all the previous reviews of this novel I am not going to dwell on the time machine aspect. Instead I would just like to highlight the love story weaved through the text between Gore Vidal and the main character T....as Jimmie Trimble (Gore Vidal's friend whose was killed on Iwo Jima March 1 1945...one of the bloodiest battles fought in the Pacific). But in this time domain Vidal saves his lover.
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