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August 9th 2001
by Gollancz
(first published 1970)
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Paperback, 400 pages
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0575073608
(isbn13: 9780575073609)
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"Sleep. And when you awake everything you know of the twentieth century will be gone from your mind. Tonight is January 21, 1882. There are no s
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Read in June, 2001
I had been casually looking for this book for years after a friend/English Lit instructor at Dixie College recommended it to me. I finally found in my local Deseret Industries, a definite treasure. This is a wonderfully gentle book about a New York man who travels back through time to the 19th century. It is a lovely blend of science fiction, historical fiction, and romance and I heartily recommend it. I am strangely taken by the Victorian era, especially Victorian New York City and this book...more
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Read in November, 2008
recommended to Jayne by:
can't rememberrecommends it for: anyone
I'm usually not a fan of science fiction but I enjoyed this story of time travel to New York City in the 1880's. It's a good story that includes love, intrigue and makes the reader experience that time period as Jack Finney transforms the reader through his descriptions of the sights, smells, and sounds of NYC in the 1880's.
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Read in June, 2009
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Dad and sisterrecommends it for: people obsessed with the 1880's
If Simon Morley, protagonist of Finney's Time and Again, had any real personality beyond his nickname being "Si," perhaps the book's loose ends and rough edges would have distracted less. But he is neither a complex and interesting original nor a heavy-handed archetype. He's more of a blank slate onto which we might project ourselves, the first-person writing tone that of an amateur blogger who is trying his hand at a journalistic account of a very exciting place. No matter the topic,...more
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TIME AND AGAIN is probably the most famous novel about time-travel published in past half-century, and one of the most convincing. I first read it around 1976 or 1977, when it was already becoming hard-to-find (fortunately it was brought back into print in the early 1980s and has remained available every since). I fell in love with it from the very first reading, and have re-read it several times since. It's an "illustrated novel" that's illustrated with photographs and woodcuttings...more
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Read in January, 2009
Though the story is about time travel, this is not what one would commonly consider a science fiction novel. Simon Morley, a bored illustrator living in 1960s New York, joins a top secret government program that sends him back to 1882. Rather than your standard time travel machine, temporal distances are covered through self-hypnosis and a bunch of hand-waving involving vague references to Einstein. But never mind all that. Since the narrator is from modern times, his descriptions of New Yor...more
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Read in May, 2008
I love to read. I read because it's fun for me. Pretty much anything I read, it's fun for me.
But I can't remember the last time I've had THIS MUCH fun.
So, a recap: Simon Morley is an illustrator working in the advertising business in 1970s New York. He is recruited to join a top-secret U.S. government project. Scientists, applying a statement of Einstein's, think they have figured out a way for people to travel back and forth in time. Si is chosen as one of the first...more
But I can't remember the last time I've had THIS MUCH fun.
So, a recap: Simon Morley is an illustrator working in the advertising business in 1970s New York. He is recruited to join a top-secret U.S. government project. Scientists, applying a statement of Einstein's, think they have figured out a way for people to travel back and forth in time. Si is chosen as one of the first...more
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Read in May, 2007
recommends it for:
fans of time travel and/or those interested in turn of the 20th century NYC
Perhaps one of my favorite time travel novels, I picked up my copy of Time and Again for a re-read earlier this week.
Si Morley, an advertising illustrator who is living in New York & feeling somewhat unfulfilled in life, is approached by a mysterious man who asks him to commit to a secret project. Not having much else to look forward to (even his relationship is somewhat desultory), he agrees. The project, under the aegis of the US government, is time travel by means of self-hypnotis...more
Si Morley, an advertising illustrator who is living in New York & feeling somewhat unfulfilled in life, is approached by a mysterious man who asks him to commit to a secret project. Not having much else to look forward to (even his relationship is somewhat desultory), he agrees. The project, under the aegis of the US government, is time travel by means of self-hypnotis...more
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Read in January, 2009
This book was strange. There were times when I couldn't put it down, and it was facinating, and others, when I seriously considered not finishing it.
I'm really glad that I did.
It's obvious that the book isn't a modern read, it's got a some what old way of thinking to it. (Even though it was only written in the 80's)
My only arguement against 'Time and Again' is that it is sometimes too descriptive and long winded. Chapters that should have been expounded wer...more
I'm really glad that I did.
It's obvious that the book isn't a modern read, it's got a some what old way of thinking to it. (Even though it was only written in the 80's)
My only arguement against 'Time and Again' is that it is sometimes too descriptive and long winded. Chapters that should have been expounded wer...more
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Read in January, 1998
Finney is a giant in this genre (a blend of science-fiction and mystery), but I had a little trouble getting into it. The story, written in 1970 (with a sequel, "From Time to Time" written in 1995), concerns a time traveller's attempts to alter history. Finney's prose was a little flowery for my taste. I liked them (I wouldn't have finished reading both of them if I hadn't), but there were times that I found it rather slow going. Try the "Time" series of books by Allen Appel,...more
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Read in January, 1991
recommends it for:
time travel nuts, history buffs
I sincerely call this my favorite book and have probably read it 6+ times since I was 12. Someone else mentions that it makes time travel actually believable. When I was younger I found myself wondering if I was in a place that I could hypnotize myself to travel back in time.... but anyway... the historical references and descriptions show the great thought put into this and allow you to feel like you're really there.
But on the flip side, it can be pretty slow at times and kinda sap...more
But on the flip side, it can be pretty slow at times and kinda sap...more
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Read in March, 2010
Parts of this book dragged, but I really liked it overall. I've always thought I might belong to a different time than my own, so the popular idea of time travel appeals also to me. Loved the original way of telling the story with the photos, drawings, woodcuts, etc. The history was fascinating.
I especially love the paragraph on page 387: "I was stunned. I was, and I knew it, an ordinary person who long after he was grown retained the childhood assumption that the people wh...more
I especially love the paragraph on page 387: "I was stunned. I was, and I knew it, an ordinary person who long after he was grown retained the childhood assumption that the people wh...more
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Read in March, 2008
My 85-year-old mother recommended this book to me, and I can see why. It is similar to Somewhere in Time in that the main character, Si Morley, who becomes involved in a secret government time-travel project and goes back to the New York City of 1882 and falls in love. I think my mom liked this book because she lived in Manhatten and Finney spends quite a bit of time detailing and describing the New York of the late 1880s. Even though my mother wasn't alive then, I think she probably could visua...more
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Read in September, 2009
I was disappointed in this one. I don't remember exactly where I heard about it, but I think it was on NPR. I'm pretty sure it got a glowing review there, which I don't think it lives up to at all.
The writing in this novel is very immature, as are many of the concepts. Basically, it's about this guy who works at a boring job he doesn't enjoy. He's recruited by the US government to take part in a top secret time-travel experiment. He signs up, travels back to New York in 1882, an...more
The writing in this novel is very immature, as are many of the concepts. Basically, it's about this guy who works at a boring job he doesn't enjoy. He's recruited by the US government to take part in a top secret time-travel experiment. He signs up, travels back to New York in 1882, an...more
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Read in January, 1974
Back in the day, a friend handed me what he said was a sci-fi novel with a twist and told me I’d enjoy it. The book was "Time and Again", and the friend was right. The adventures of Simon Morley struck a chord, particularly as, like him, I was working in advertising, chronically bored, and fascinated with the history of New York City Joining a secret government project, moving into the legendary Dakota apartment building overlooking Central Park, learning to time travel, and discov...more
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Read in January, 2010
I read this book for January's Circle of friends.
Jack Finney's TIME AND AGAIN is a classic time travel story. Si Morley is a commercial artist in New York in the 1970s and he is so bored that he quits his job and accepts a position in a secret government project. The project is training people to feel so comfortable in a different time and place that they can travel there, not just to the different place, but to the different time.
Si is one of a very select group of peopl...more
Jack Finney's TIME AND AGAIN is a classic time travel story. Si Morley is a commercial artist in New York in the 1970s and he is so bored that he quits his job and accepts a position in a secret government project. The project is training people to feel so comfortable in a different time and place that they can travel there, not just to the different place, but to the different time.
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Read in August, 2009
recommended to Jennifer by:
Amazonrecommends it for: fans of time travel
I heard about this book on an Amazon list of best time travel novels. It was originally published in 1970 and I think the copy I got from the library was an original, based on the musty smell (ewww).
Anyways Simon (Si) is an illustrator who is recruited to be part of a top secret government project to travel back into time. But they don't use any special machines, they just go to a historical place and mentally transport themselves there (think Somewhere in Time). He travels back...more
Anyways Simon (Si) is an illustrator who is recruited to be part of a top secret government project to travel back into time. But they don't use any special machines, they just go to a historical place and mentally transport themselves there (think Somewhere in Time). He travels back...more
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recommended to Michele by:
My Mom
recommends it for: everyone (in fact, I do)
recommends it for: everyone (in fact, I do)
“Have you ever given someone a book you enjoyed enormously, with a feeling of envy because they were about to read it for the first time, an experience you could never have again?”
Yes, yes, and yes. And it is exactly how I feel about this book. There's a spoiler moment I won't mention but I want to be sitting on the couch with you when you experience it. I want you to look over at me with the same wonder I feel every time I get to that point in the book and I want your eyes ...more
Yes, yes, and yes. And it is exactly how I feel about this book. There's a spoiler moment I won't mention but I want to be sitting on the couch with you when you experience it. I want you to look over at me with the same wonder I feel every time I get to that point in the book and I want your eyes ...more
Read in March, 2010
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Read in February, 2010
A history professor I knew in college once advised me to stop reading all fiction, except for this novel. That certainly raised my expectations for it, and while the Pickering/Carmody intrigue was absolutely gripping, all the visual descriptions before getting there nearly made me give the book up out of boredom. I'm glad I didn't; the latter part of the book was worth reading. The preparation for time travel at the beginning was interesting at first, but it went on way too long.
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