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Hey, you've found a traveling book!
Picked this book up at a library book sale. Apparently, I already had a copy. So, I'll keep one and send this one out to make new friends! Hope you enjoy it!
Picked this book up at a library book sale. Apparently, I already had a copy. So, I'll keep one and send this one out to make new friends! Hope you enjoy it!
Added to lane1088’s Sci-Fi Bookbox.
I'm claiming this from the SF bookbox.
This is a fast-moving story with some entertaining twists, and plenty of drama. The premise is similar to that of Connie Willis' Doomsday Book; researchers have found a way to go back in time, with plenty of preparation regarding languages and immunizations, and with lots of warnings against trying to change anything. And then some of them get trapped in the past... There's even a similar problem at the modern-day end, so that the time-travel mechanism can't be invoked immediately for a rescue. But the stories themselves, while both very good, are quite different in tone.
I enjoy the way that Crichton explains the technology behind his plot devices; he manages to convey a lot of real science along with just enough doesn't-quite-work-that-way stuff to make the plot work, and he has his characters make use of some of the techno-bits in critical scenes later on. And I liked several of the characters, especially Marek, the medieval-weapons expert who was so delighted to be able to take part in an actual joust! [While all of the time travelers found out that the actual 1300s were rather different than they'd imagined, Marek's expectations weren't nearly as far off as the others' were.]
I liked the descriptions of the medieval communities, and I really enjoyed the ways in which the different characters responded to their situation. There were, perhaps, a few too many convenient coincidences, but not more so than in most fiction, and the story moved along briskly enough that I didn't mind. And while the up-to-the-very-last-second climax was a cliche, it'd be hard to imagine a story like this where they solved everything with several hours to go {wry grin}. I also *really* enjoyed the epilogue; a favorite character got a just reward, and a nasty one was served justice as well!
[There's a 2003 film adaptation of the book; I found it pretty good, but I prefer the novel. The TV Tropes page for the novel has some entertaining notes on book and film.]
This is a fast-moving story with some entertaining twists, and plenty of drama. The premise is similar to that of Connie Willis' Doomsday Book; researchers have found a way to go back in time, with plenty of preparation regarding languages and immunizations, and with lots of warnings against trying to change anything. And then some of them get trapped in the past... There's even a similar problem at the modern-day end, so that the time-travel mechanism can't be invoked immediately for a rescue. But the stories themselves, while both very good, are quite different in tone.
I enjoy the way that Crichton explains the technology behind his plot devices; he manages to convey a lot of real science along with just enough doesn't-quite-work-that-way stuff to make the plot work, and he has his characters make use of some of the techno-bits in critical scenes later on. And I liked several of the characters, especially Marek, the medieval-weapons expert who was so delighted to be able to take part in an actual joust! [While all of the time travelers found out that the actual 1300s were rather different than they'd imagined, Marek's expectations weren't nearly as far off as the others' were.]
I liked the descriptions of the medieval communities, and I really enjoyed the ways in which the different characters responded to their situation. There were, perhaps, a few too many convenient coincidences, but not more so than in most fiction, and the story moved along briskly enough that I didn't mind. And while the up-to-the-very-last-second climax was a cliche, it'd be hard to imagine a story like this where they solved everything with several hours to go {wry grin}. I also *really* enjoyed the epilogue; a favorite character got a just reward, and a nasty one was served justice as well!
[There's a 2003 film adaptation of the book; I found it pretty good, but I prefer the novel. The TV Tropes page for the novel has some entertaining notes on book and film.]
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GoryDetails
at Valley Street Cemetery in Manchester, New Hampshire USA on Thursday, June 29, 2017
GoryDetails at Valley Street Cemetery in Manchester, New Hampshire USA on Thursday, June 29, 2017
Released 6 yrs ago (6/29/2017 UTC) at Valley Street Cemetery in Manchester, New Hampshire USA
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
I left this book, bagged against the elements, hanging from a fountain in the atmospheric Valley St. Cemetery (near the Union St. entrance); hope the finder enjoys it![See other recent releases in NH here.]
*** Released for the 2017 Keep Them Moving release challenge. ***
*** Released for the 2017 Allergic to A release challenge. ***
*** Released for the 2017 Movie release challenge. ***
