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This book isn't as powerful as "Doomsday Book," Willis' other book involving time travel, but her plotting and research are just as meticulous. In short, the book to me seemed a cross between a serious SF time travel story and a P.G. Wodehouse comedy, with some Agatha Christie thrown in for good measure. I found the explanations of time travel conundrums occasionally confusing, and I think at times they get in the way of a really enjoyable story. Otherwise, a good read. I wish I had read [b:Three Men in a Boat|4921|Three Men in a Boat (Penguin Popular Classics)|Jerome K. Jerome|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165515911s/4921.jpg|4476508] first. It would have added more layers to this to enjoy. I very much liked the fish-out-of-water quality of the main character being thrust into mid-Victorian society. The mystery driving the plot was almost more of a distraction; I didn't care much about it. But overall, it was still a pleasant read. Quick Word: Highly bewildering, and although great fun at times, the chaotic mess never tied up as neatly as I would've liked. However Willis has a beauty to her storys - and a historical hillarity- that makes everything worthwile. And such beautiful characterization. Perhaps I will enjoy it better after a re-read. Book club pick ☺ I have always been fond of Three Men in a Boat. It is incredibly nice to come back to To Say Nothing of the Dog, which is basically a love letter to Jerome K. Jerome, an idealised image of Victorian England, Victorian fiction, and Golden Age mystery novels. The author turns all of the above on its head and creates a delightful time travel romp. The stakes are high, too – it’s the whole space-time continuum, no less ;) There is something to chuckle, laugh, or smile at on every page. “ ’What on earth were you doing in the water?’ ‘Drowning’, said professor Peddick.” I loved the effects of time-lag (it happens when you do too much time travelling), which include attacks of maudlin sentimentality. Then you say stuff like “It’s no wonder they call you man’s best friend. Faithful and loyal and true, you share in our sorrows and rejoice in our triumphs…” ets etc. Lovely. There are lots of misunderstandings and people talking at each other rather than to each other, because their brains went on a holiday. Really, I wouldn’t trust any of these characters with ordering a coffee for me, let alone time travel. But it also means that you are wonderfully entertained all the way through. Things come together very satisfyingly by the end. Don’t look too closely, though, because time travel books rarely make sense. Just go with the flow, dear reader. Enjoy the flow of the Thames... :)))
To Say Nothing of the Dog is charming. It’s funny and gentle and it has Victorian England and severely time lagged time travelers from the near future freaking out over Victorian England, it’s full of jumble sales and beautiful cathedrals and kittens. This is a complicated funny story about resolving a time paradox, and at the end when all is revealed everything fits together like oiled clockwork. But what makes it worth reading is that it is about history and time and the way they relate to each other. If it’s possible to have a huge effect on the past by doing some tiny thing, it stands to reason that we have a huge effect on the future every time we do anything. I have read several stories by Connie Willis which I have enjoyed. However, these have all been short stories or novellas. At longer lengths, based on the three Willis novels I've read, I'm afraid I subscribe to the minority opinion that her work is vastly overrated. While I'm sure To Say Nothing of the Dog will sell well and may even garner Willis another Hugo or Nebula, it is another Willis book which adds to my opinion that she should stick with short fiction and stay away from time travel. Gleeful fun with a serious edge, set forth in an almost impeccable English accent. Ingår i serienIngår iInspirerades avHar som instuderingsbokPriserUppmärksammade listor
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HTML:From Connie Willis, winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, comes a comedic romp through an unpredictable world of mystery, love, and time travel . . . Ned Henry is badly in need of a rest. He??s been shuttling between the 21st century and the 1940s searching for a Victorian atrocity called the bishop's bird stump. It??s part of a project to restore the famed Coventry Cathedral, destroyed in a Nazi air raid over a hundred years earlier. But then Verity Kindle, a fellow time traveler, inadvertently brings back something from the past. Now Ned must jump back to the Victorian era to help Verity put things right??not only to save the project but to prevent altering histor Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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“History was indeed controlled by blind forces, as well as character and courage and treachery and love. And accident and random chance. And stray bullets and telegrams and tips. And cats.”
“The reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over.”
“People will buy anything at jumble sales,' I said. 'At the Evacuated Children Charity Fair a woman bought a tree branch that had fallen on the table.” ( )