

S'està carregant… To Say Nothing of the Dogde Connie Willis
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I get confounded by time travel stories. This is a time travel story. I got confounded. In the midst of my confusion there were some glimmerings, and I had a chuckle or two, but not enough for a four star rating. ( ![]() Willis' Oxford Time Travel series are always fun adventures and this is no exception. This one takes us to Victorian England and has a lot of mysteries for the historians to solve. I liked the characters and the sense of time and place. The plot kept me guessing without being too technical with its time travel explanations. There were plenty of fun mentions of literary classics - but some of the discussions spoiled classic mysteries that I had hoped to read soon. Overall a fun read that was light enough to entertain, but deep enough to hold my interest. The opposite feel from the Doomsday book. Light and full of whimsy. Mistaken assumptions. Verity is a fan of classic mysteries. Lots of references to Agatha Christie and Peter Wimsey. This was a fun book, and I'd put off reading it because I'd understood that it heavily referenced (if not was an outright homage to) Three Men In A Boat, a book that I was unfamiliar with. In addition, I remember the first book (Doomsday Book) being a bit heavy. So as prep, I started Three Men In A Boat, and decided that after a chapter or 2 that I didn't need to finish it, and that I got the general gist of the book. On to THIS book, then. And except for the chapter headings? summaries? and only a small few mentions of 3MIAB, I found that I'd definitely been over-sold on the necessity of being familiar with 3MIAB. Also, I'd like to take this opportunity to state that the chapter heading/summaries gimmick wore out REALLY fast. Nothing like spoiling your own book in the middle of it. Anyway, this story was crazy-complicated (as all good Time Travel books should be), especially at the end as they were trying to tie everything together. But it was a lot of fun, and there were some very funny parts. The whole tone of the book was so much lighter than Doomsday Book, and I appreciated the minimum amount of exposition needed to explain Time Travel and the net. Audiobook notes - the narrator did a nice job of making distinctive voices, and if there were any mispronunciations I didn't notice them. 1st Review: The problem with laughing when reading this book is that you have to put it down until you have stopped laughing. And no one, in their right mind, would want to do that. Willis is one of the best authors I have ever read! Clever, funny, and marvelously brave, she dives headfirst into complex ideas and makes it work! 2nd Review: March is the month of rereads. And this was a delight. This time around, having polished my detective skills with extensive Agatha Christie reading (See my 2018 reading list), I caught much more of the details that Willis sprinkles generously but not obstructively in the novel that make the puzzle all fit together. Truly a masterful composition by Willis. Worth the read. And the reread. And the next reread.
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. Contingut aInspirat enTé una guia d'estudi per a estudiants
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. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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