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To Say Nothing of the Dog

de Connie Willis

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Sèrie: Oxford Time Travel series (2)

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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 history itself.… (més)
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    amberwitch: A much darker book set in the same universe. This time the timetravel is to the dark middle ages instead of the gay Victorian era
    Othemts: To Say Nothing of the Dog is a more light-hearted time travel adventure which is sort of a sequel to Doomsday Book. Both are excellent, enjoyable novels.
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I enjoyed this a lot more than the first book! It has a more straightforward storyline and a lot more humor. On the downside is the 'science' of time travel is not science but fantasy. ( )
  leslie.98 | Jun 27, 2023 |
A time traveller suffering from time lag is sent to the 19th century to recuperate but the bishop's bird stump and the incongruities around the rescue of Princess Arjumand get in the way.

Not as funny as its reputation led me to believe but still a very enjoyable time travel romp. ( )
  Robertgreaves | May 20, 2023 |
A strong, moving ending makes up for a soggy beginning and middle. Willis spends too much time on English countryside hijinks along the lines of Wodehouse or The Importance of Being Earnest, but (no disrespect) her humor isn’t as good as theirs. We could lose 150 or 200 pages there. But as soon as the characters start their trip to Coventry, the plot really starts moving.

At the end Willis paints a compelling image of being able to recover lost treasures of the past. She seems to truly believe that recreating Coventry Cathedral is a valuable effort. In that I think she demonstrates a pretty American attitude. ( )
1 vota theoldlove | Apr 12, 2023 |
A romp through 19th, 20th and 21st century Oxford and Coventry as time travelling historians attempt to confirm details in order for Coventry Cathedral to be rebuilt as it was before it was des destroyed in WWII. With respectful references to Jerome K Jerome, ( )
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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.
afegit per Shortride | editaTor.com, Jo Walton (Jun 24, 2010)
 
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.
afegit per Shortride | editaSF Site, Steven H. Silver (Feb 15, 1998)
 
Gleeful fun with a serious edge, set forth in an almost impeccable English accent.
afegit per Shortride | editaKirkus Reviews (Oct 15, 1997)
 
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Willis, Connie—autor primaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Berry, RickDissenyador de la cobertaautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Crossley, StevenNarradorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Dinyer, EricAutor de la cobertaautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Górska, DanutaTł.autor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Lagana, Randy J.Il·lustradorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Lautenschlag, ChristianTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Marín Trechera, RafaelTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Pugi, Jean-PierreTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Sinclair, JamesDissenyadorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Vigne, JoanIntroduccióautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Youll, Jamie S. WarrenDissenyador de la cobertaautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
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To Say Nothing of the Dog or how we found the bishop's bird stump at last
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Ned Henry
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"...a harmless, necessary cat"--William Shakespeare
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To Robert A. Heinlein

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To Say Nothing of the Dog.
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She sighed. "It's too bad. 'Placetne, magistra?' he said when he proposed, and then she said, 'Placet'. That's a fancy Oxford don way of saying yes. I had to look it up. I hate it when people use Latin and don't tell you what they mean.
It was actually more of a swoon than a faint. She slumped sedately to the flowered carpet, managing to avoid hitting any of the furniture--no small feat since the room contained a large round rosewood table, a small triangular table with a tintype album on it, a mahogany table with a bouquet of wax flowers under a glass dome on it, a horsehair sofa, a damask loveseat, a Windsor chair, a Morris chair, a Chesterfield chair, several ottomans, a writing desk, a bookcase, a knick-knack cabinet, a whatnot, a firescreen, a harp, an aspidistra, and an elephant's foot.
Plans, intentions, reasons. I could hear Professor Overforce now. "I knew it! This is nothing but an argument for a Grand Design!"

A Grand Design we couldn't see because we were part of it. A Grand Design we only got occasional, fleeting glimpses of. A Grand Design involving the entire course of history and all of time and space that, for some unfathomable reason, chose to work out its designs with cats and croquet mallets and penwipers, to say nothing of the dog. And a hideous piece of Victorian artwork. And us.

"History is character," Professor Peddick had said. And character had certainly played a part in the self-correction--Lizzie Bittner's devotion to her husband and the Colonel's refusal to wear a coat in rainy weather, Verity's fondness for cats and Princess Arjumand's fondness for fish and Hitler's temper and Mrs. Mering's gullibility. And my time-laggedness. If they were all part of the self-correction, what did that do to the notion of free will? Or was free will part of the plan as well?

One of the first symptoms of time-lag is a tendency to maudlin sentimentality, like an Irishman in his cups or a Victorian poet cold-sober.
It is a temporal universal that people never appreciate their own time, especially transportation.
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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 history itself.
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813.54Literature › English (North America) › American fiction › 20th Century › 1945-1999

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