Remembrance of Things I Forgot

Mar 15, 2012 Court Stroud rated it 5 of 5 stars

Mark Twain once said, “The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.” I can’t think of a contemporary piece of fiction that illustrates this observation more than Bob Smith’s Remembrances of Things I Forgot. Many reviewers have called the Lambda Award-winner’s latest book a “comic” novel, but that adjective doesn’t begin to cover the breadth of emotions it evokes in the reader. It’s equally inaccurate to label the book as “touching,” or even “gay,” “political,” or “sci-fi.” Remembrance is al...more Mark Twain once said, “The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.” I can’t think of a contemporary piece of fiction that illustrates this observation more than Bob Smith’s Remembrances of Things I Forgot. Many reviewers have called the Lambda Award-winner’s latest book a “comic” novel, but that adjective doesn’t begin to cover the breadth of emotions it evokes in the reader. It’s equally inaccurate to label the book as “touching,” or even “gay,” “political,” or “sci-fi.” Remembrance is all of those things – but also so much more – which makes the work hard to define, but brilliant to read.

The book had me reaching for the Kleenex box one minute and throwing my head back in laughter the next. As a skilled writer and a professional comic, Smith possesses a keen sense of timing. Right after a heart wrenching passage, he’ll toss in a bon mot. The overall result is a tone which implies that life is hard, but there is hope.

For example, see how Smith describes what happens as protagonist John Sherkston runs into his alcoholic father:

When my father came in the back door carrying a twelve-pack of beer, I thought it was grossly unfair that I had to deal with two suicides. It made me feel we should change our family name to the Lemmings.

Smith’s genius is also evident in the way he, much like Mark Twain, manages to write damning social commentary with enough humor to avoid offense:

In some ways New Yorkers are all Mad King Ludvigs who recognize other royal families – protocol requires Londoners and Parisians to be treated as equals – only we ludicrously maintain our sense of grandeur as we give must-be-obeyed Chinese take-out orders from tiny studio or one-bedroom palaces while sneering at commoners in Terre Haute hovelling in their three bedroom, two bath ranch houses.

The “net net”? Smith has written a book full of round characters – flawed, yet funny. Even the depiction of Dick Cheney, villain of Smith’s tale, has been handled so adroitly that the former Vice-President comes across as – yes, evil -- but also complex and even, gulp, human.

Another quote by Twain defines a “’classic" as "a book which people praise and don’t read.” As an Amazon Best Books of 2011, a finalist for the 2011 Green Carnation Award, and a (just-announced) nomination for Triangle Publishing’s 2012 Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction, the accolades keep rolling in for Smith's latest book. Since its July 2011 release, however, InsightOut Books has consistently ranked Remembrance of Things I Forgot among its list of top-tier best-sellers. So in this case, Twain was wrong. Instant classics can be widely read.
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Oct 09, 2012 Gerhard rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2012

A particularly unbelievable plot twist towards the end of this book that completely rubbishes the integrity of the main characters robs this novel of achieving true greatness (or five stars). Up to that point it is one of the most acerbic, laugh-out-loud and poignant comedy of manners I have read in ages.

A guy's boyfriend invents a time machine, and then he finds himself accidentally teleported to the past, where he realises he has an opportunity to prevent the future suicide of his sister. But...more

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Aug 06, 2011 Larry Hoffer added it

"It's safe to say your relationship is in trouble if the only way you can imagine solving your problems is by borrowing a time machine."

It's 2006, and comic book dealer John Sherkston has decided to break up with his long-time boyfriend, Taylor. Unfortunately, he chooses to do so on the same day Taylor announces he has finally perfected his design of a time machine he has been building for the US government.

As the result of an encounter with Vice President Cheney, John gets sent back to 1986,...more

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May 28, 2013 The Book Breeze rated it 4 of 5 stars

In 2006 comic book dealer John Sherkston has decided to break up with his physicist boyfriend, Taylor Esgard, on the very day Taylor announces he’s finally perfected a time travel machine for the U.S government. John travels back to 1986, where he encounters “Junior,” his younger, more innocent self. When Junior starts to flirt, John wonders how to reveal his identity: “I’m you, only with less hair and problems you can’t imagine.” He also meets up with the younger Taylor, and this unlikely trio...more In 2006 comic book dealer John Sherkston has decided to break up with his physicist boyfriend, Taylor Esgard, on the very day Taylor announces he’s finally perfected a time travel machine for the U.S government. John travels back to 1986, where he encounters “Junior,” his younger, more innocent self. When Junior starts to flirt, John wonders how to reveal his identity: “I’m you, only with less hair and problems you can’t imagine.” He also meets up with the younger Taylor, and this unlikely trio teams up to plot a course around their future relationship troubles, prevent John’s sister from making a tragic decision, and stop George W. Bush from becoming president.

Bob Smith has created a fun, funny, and interesting read that weaves together a tapestry of human experience: love, familial discord, compassion, wit, humor, sarcasm, and righteous indignation.

For me the most interesting slant to this book was the protagonist coming to terms with his younger self. The two really don’t like each other, but need to work through several issues in an attempt to accomplish their goal.

As much as I enjoyed this fast, witty read, it is not without flaws. The characters, although charming, never feel more than one-dimensional. Cheney and Bush were cartoon figures, not remotely believable. Still, in a fast paced comedy, that is easily overlooked.

Being a liberal, I enjoyed the book’s bald-faced left agenda. I believe, however, that many of the books political rants (and there are many) might offend anyone who voted for Bush/Cheney.

Lastly, I found the second half of the story lagged a bit, as it became even more far fetched. This plot has a dozen holes you could fly a 747 through.

This is a fun, original comedy that had me occasionally laughing out loud and often snickering to myself. I can recommend it to liberals who enjoy a light, clever read.

This review was written by Alan Chin for The Book Breeze.

You can learn more about Alan Chin and his writing at: http://AlanChinWriter.blogspot.com or about his travels at his travel blog: http://HermanAndAlan.blogspot.com
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Dec 10, 2012 Alan rated it 3 of 5 stars

In 2006 comic book dealer John Sherkston has decided to break up with his physicist boyfriend, Taylor Esgard, on the very day Taylor announces he’s finally perfected a time travel machine for the U.S government. John travels back to 1986, where he encounters “Junior,” his younger, more innocent self. When Junior starts to flirt, John wonders how to reveal his identity: “I’m you, only with less hair and problems you can’t imagine.” He also meets up with the younger Taylor, and this unlikely trio...more

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Jul 09, 2012 Aaron rated it 3 of 5 stars

I loved Bob Smith’s first novel, Selfish and Perverse, which nicely blended realism with humor. His writing style just pulls me right into the stories that he tells, and his protagonists are great gay everymen. In this second novel by the author, we meet John Sherkston in 2006. He has been with his boyfriend named Taylor, a well-established physicist who works for the government, but things have been getting rocky over time. John is a pretty liberal democrat while Taylor fell into being a Republ...more I loved Bob Smith’s first novel, Selfish and Perverse, which nicely blended realism with humor. His writing style just pulls me right into the stories that he tells, and his protagonists are great gay everymen. In this second novel by the author, we meet John Sherkston in 2006. He has been with his boyfriend named Taylor, a well-established physicist who works for the government, but things have been getting rocky over time. John is a pretty liberal democrat while Taylor fell into being a Republican who staunchly supported the Bush administration after 9/11. The result was a rift that seems impossible to mend, even though just about everything else in their relationship works.
Upon going to see Taylor at work, John learns that Taylor has achieved his life’s work. Taylor has built a time machine, which is actually pretty exciting to someone like John, a comic book vendor/trader. Unfortunately, his enthusiasm is curbed by their troubles. It is made even less clear when he meets Taylor’s boss, once Don Cheney, Vice President of the United States and the ultimate evil to John. While their struggling relationship comes to the fore at Taylor’s workplace, John finds himself heading back in time to the year 1986 when the time machine activates by accident.
This is quite a scary proposition at first, but it also is an opportunity for John. Thinking back on things, this could allow him to stop two family tragedies from happening: the death of his father from alcoholism after he retired from the police force and his sister Carol’s suicide. Both were fairly traumatizing experiences. That he barely recovered from. And thus John starts a mission that will have him bringing his younger self (called Junior) and the younger Taylor together with him in order to achieve his goals.
You would think that would be a big enough challenge, but there ends up being a true villain in this tale, and it is Don Cheney. He is able to follow John back in time, and the Veep is clearly chasing John and his allies as they work to achieve their goals. Cheney becomes a caricature of the neocons, willing to use torture, blackmail, and anything else to achieve his own goals. It is actually an interesting idea, but it gets a bit out of control as the book progresses. It becomes so outlandish and bizarre that it detracts from the real strength of the book, which is the story of John dealing with his past and his loss through interactions with Junior, younger Taylor, and other friends and families. He gets a chance to reexamine his life and the good and the bad that happened when he was younger.
The result is a second chance to gain new realizations about the person that he was and the person that he has become. This really would have been a great novel if that had been the sole result of John’s time travel. Instead, that aspect is broken up with attacks on Cheney and George W. Bush that make them totally farcical. I will be the first to admit that I can’t really stand either one of them because of their actions while being Prez/Veep, but I do not see either of them as being horrible human beings … just ignorant and having poor judgment. The novel quickly becomes overwhelmed with them as John and his team decide they must do what they can to prevent a Bush/Cheney presidency in the future. The two storylines don’t really seem to fit together so well as the first is really touching and well balanced with humor and the second is really an outrageous satire that is not well constructed, though the execution of the story and its related humor holds up better than expected.
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Jan 26, 2012 jess rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012, fiction

The premise of this book is fabulous -- a gay New Yorker borrows his boyfriend's time machine to go back to the 1980s and solve some of the worst problems that plagued his adult life -- his sister's suicide, his failing relationship with his boyfriend, his father's alcoholism, etc. Along the way, it seems like a good idea to try to stop Bush and Cheney from taking over the country. Think of all the good you could do 25 years in the past!! Hindsight is more than 20/20. Don't sleep with your adora...more

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Apr 20, 2013 Margaux rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: gslis, modern

This is one of those books I fully expected to dislike. It's got a science fiction element to it. It's political. It's about a breakup (I usually like romantic-comediy-esque books, where the protagonist falls in love during the development and the grand finale is a kiss and happily ever after. This book picks up after the "ever after" and during the "embittered" phase). HOWEVER. However I really did love this book. So much so that when I did a presentation on Remembrance of Things I Forgot: A No ...more This is one of those books I fully expected to dislike. It's got a science fiction element to it. It's political. It's about a breakup (I usually like romantic-comediy-esque books, where the protagonist falls in love during the development and the grand finale is a kiss and happily ever after. This book picks up after the "ever after" and during the "embittered" phase). HOWEVER. However I really did love this book. So much so that when I did a presentation on Remembrance of Things I Forgot: A Novel for my GSLIS "Readers' Advisory" class, I raved about it. You can tell when someone really loved a book and when someone just pretends to love a book so that other people can read said book and they can both gripe about it later. This was a situation in the former category. I had people coming up to me after class asking about both Remembrance and about the books I thought were similar to it.

Here's what I wrote for class:

It’s 2006 and John Sherkston has been with his partner, Taylor Esgard, for 15 years. Although he is a successful entrepreneur, John lives a life full of regret that has embittered him to the world. Just when he decides to break things off with Taylor, the latter calls and informs him he has succeeded in creating a time machine. John goes to see Taylor’s life work and is greeted by a politician John hates: Dick Cheney. Cheney sends John back to 1986 without permission and John teams up with his younger self--who calls “Junior”--to get back to 2006, stay away from the Young and Old Dick Cheneys, meet up with Young Taylor, and try to erase some of the eldest John’s regrets. The trio travels to upper state New York to see John’s parents, Texas to see George W. Bush, and California to see John’s sister Carol. Will all their travels erase some of John’s regrets? Will John, Taylor, and Junior end up irrevocably changing the future for the worst? Will 2006-era Taylor ever come back to 1986 to save his lifelong love, John? Read Remembrance of Things I Forgot: A Novel to find out.
Subject Headings: Time Travel (Past), Breakups, Homosexual Relations
Appeal: Builds in intensity, contemplative, candid, bittersweet, dark humor, flawed characters, nonlinear storyline, urban, historic, well-crafted, witty

I'll also add that there is far too little LGBTA literature out there, and that I really, REALLY struggled to find any similar fiction works. But Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green & David Levithan, although it was a YA book, seemed to fit the bill.

As for non-fiction, a book that Remembrance made me want to read was The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family by Dan Savage (creator of "Savage Lovecast"). Although it's obviously not science fiction, I did feel like Savage's struggle to fit into his family was comparable to John Sherkston's struggle. Do yourself a favor and read this book! (less)

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Sep 21, 2012 Kevin rated it 5 of 5 stars

I thought this novel might just be a goofy comedy but there's really much more to it. A middle-aged gay man on the verge of breaking up with his longtime partner (a scientist who just created a time machine) ends up being sent back two decades. Many of the reviews say he goes back in time to stop George W. Bush from being elected President, but his real quest is to attempt to change history and prevent his sister from killing herself.

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Aug 20, 2011 SheilaRaeO rated it 4 of 5 stars

I think most of us ponder what things would be like if only we could go back and change one or two significant events in our personal history. John has been given that very opportunity when his partner Taylor invents a time machine. Unexpectedly finding himself back in 1986, he realizes he might be able to change the future and prevent a family tragedy that has yet to happen. Being the passionate political activist that he is, along the way he decides that he should also try to find a way to pre...more

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Jul 30, 2012 Michael rated it 5 of 5 stars

This is absolutely the best book I have read in years! If you haven't read it, stop whatever you're doing right this minute and BUY THIS BOOK. Bob Smith is absolutely brilliant. His writing is so crisp, funny, engaging, entertaining - he's a fantastic writer. This book is ingenious and brilliantly executed. Loved the book and have given copies to friends. READ IT NOW!

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Jun 29, 2011 Lorri Steinbacher rated it 4 of 5 stars

OK so I generally hate gimmicks and I really hate time travel and this book is almost--almost--too cute for its own good, but somehow Smith managed to charm me anyway. By page three I was chortling out loud, by page ten I was relating the storyline to my bf, who proceeded to give me a wtf look. The book is seriously funny, even when it is ridiculous, I guess especially when it is ridiculous. I do feel that Smith added in too many characters towards the end in furtherance of the plot and not much...more

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Sep 01, 2011 Carol rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction

Top 5 Things I Loved about Remembrance of Things I Forgot, by Bob Smith

5. Bob tackled time travel and made it work.

4. The sentence that made me really think about my life: "I'd failed to even try to be a failure, which is the real definition of a loser."

3. The sentence I'd really love to do up in needlepoint: "Life usually doles out horrible events in increments, allowing us time to slowly digest pain like an anaconda after a capybara meal."

2. The opening sentence. "It's safe to say your relatio...more

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Jul 25, 2011 Ang rated it 5 of 5 stars

So, so good. I'm not sure this book is going to get the audience it deserves, which is too damn bad, because it's funny and sweet, and quirky as hell in the best way possible. Time-travel is a premise I nearly always enjoy, and this book does it in such a NOT SCIENCE FICTION way, which is part of what makes the book great. Who among us hasn't wanted to go back and change the past? But who among us ever has a good plan for doing it? That's kind of the situation the main character John finds himse...more

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Mar 08, 2012 Dani rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: fic

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Feb 14, 2013 Mark rated it 5 of 5 stars

What would you do if you had the opportunity to go back in time and meet yourself? I hope it's a lot like this book. The tone is a pitch perfect --modulating seamlessly between laugh out wittiness, keenly observed trueisms and painful emotional realities. Particularly surprising and refreshing is the book's unrelenting politcal stance. He lets the villains remain the villains even though explaining (in this world) the reasons for their villianous acts. He also completely captures what's good, ba...more

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Jul 02, 2011 Gochrisgo rated it 5 of 5 stars

There's an quirky glee to this book. I have precisely no interest in time travel fiction or political satire, yet this book made me laugh and nearly cry at times. With perfect wit, it is a hearty but depiction of gay men coping with the AIDS crisis, 9/11 and sneering Republican politicians. All done with a mercifully light tough.

Bob Smith has great control. He could go the Kathy Griffin over the top route, speeding right past our comprehension, but never disrespects his audience that way.

He m...more

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Dec 12, 2011 Don rated it 4 of 5 stars

A brilliant turn of fiction covers alternate universes, changing the past, conspiracies and gay novel. A male couple are about to break up. One is a scientist who has perfected a time travel machine and the other, a comic book (I suppose the correct terms is graphic novels) dealer. There are hilarious twists and turns including hanging out with a young George W. Bush, sex with one's younger past self, the realization of technology and social culture of past and present, and being tracked by a ma...more

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Nov 16, 2012 Wils Cain rated it 5 of 5 stars

I never even knew a book like this existed - it's perfect for me! Gays and time travel - sign me up! Our narrator is in 2006 and his partner of 15 years who are just about to split from each other invents the time machine and then his boss (Dick Cheney) throws our narrator into the machine and back 20 years to 1986. As he tries to right some wrongs in 1986 along with his companions, the younger version of himself and his partner, they're chased by old 2006 Cheney and young 1986 Cheney, meet up w...more

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Sep 30, 2012 Lane rated it 3 of 5 stars

This was a quick read and a nice change after reading some more "serious" fiction lately. There are a ton of plot holes, none of which matter much, although all the logical pitfalls of time travel are just ignored or brushed aside. What bothered me more than the plot holes, though, were long stretches of unnecessary detail and scenes that went on way too long without advancing plot, character, or theme. I found it hard not to skim some long passages.

It was fun to imagine George W. Bush and Dick...more

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Feb 24, 2012 Dylan rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: gay-fun, time-travel, political

This book had a fun premise that got me interested and excited to read it: a gay man who travels back to the 80's to stop Dubya from becoming president in 2000. That is something I have personally fantasized about doing, but this book just sorta pisses all over the fun of it. It was just terribly written. A lot of it was fun, funny and original, but not nearly enough to save it. Almost all of the little sayings and one-liners that were supposed to be funny/deep just left me irritated and stalled...more

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Feb 18, 2012 Misha rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012, time-travel, novel

This book has a fantastic opening line and moments that genuinely made me laugh out loud or feel for the characters, but overall the book failed to live up to my wildly hopeful expectations for it. I enjoyed it well enough, but I really wanted to love it. Alas, there was far too much telling and not enough showing, particularly when it came to the main character's emotional life, and that created a distance between character and reader that left me feeling a bit cold.

I think it also suffers from...more

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Nov 06, 2011 Chris rated it 4 of 5 stars

At one time or another, we’ve all said, “If only I had known then what I know now”, or “If I had it to do over, I would…”, either quietly to ourselves or out loud. The idea of traveling back in time and rewriting history is hardly new, and the concept has been profiled repeatedly in literature, television and film.

Nevertheless, a select few titles tend to stand out as classics in the genre, such as H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine, and movies like Back to the Future, and The Terminator. Author and s...more At one time or another, we’ve all said, “If only I had known then what I know now”, or “If I had it to do over, I would…”, either quietly to ourselves or out loud. The idea of traveling back in time and rewriting history is hardly new, and the concept has been profiled repeatedly in literature, television and film.

Nevertheless, a select few titles tend to stand out as classics in the genre, such as H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine, and movies like Back to the Future, and The Terminator. Author and stand-up comedian Bob Smith’s second novel, Remembrance of Things I Forgot (Terrace Books), is a funny, touching and ferociously entertaining tale of time travel that has the potential to become such a classic.

John Sherkston, a comic book dealer, and his partner, Taylor Esgard, a brilliant physicist, have been together for more than a decade. The two haven’t been getting along lately, especially since Taylor was born again as a card-carrying Republican. One evening in 2006, John decides he has had enough and plans to break up with him. Yet before he can get the words out, Taylor proclaims to have made history by inventing the world’s first time machine.

When John is left alone with this breakthrough mechanism, he accidentally transports himself back to 1986. Once he recovers from the initial shock, John soon realizes the advantages to turning back the clock and tries to prevent some of the more horrific events of the past twenty years, like his sister’s downward spiral into depression, his father’s untimely death, and even the election of George W. Bush.

Knowing his disappearance has aroused suspicion in the present, John joins forces with his younger self, whom he refers to as Junior, and a younger Tyler, in a literal race against time. Their journey takes them across the entire country, beginning in the South Bronx, including stops in Buffalo, Texas, New Mexico and California.

On its own, the sequence of events makes for a compelling read, but it is Smith’s voice and signature wit, personified in the mind and spoken words of his protagonist, John, that make this novel so much more than just an adventurous road trip. The pages literally sparkle with clever, bristling, darkly comic commentary on everything from relationships and technology to politics and the environment, and how well or poorly each has evolved from then to now.

While the story is essentially a collection of outlandish incidents, Smith has created a colorful assortment of genuine, engaging characters who speak from the heart. Even those readers who are quick to dismiss a novel about time travel as absurd will be impressed or amused, at least, by the author’s choice of words and keen storytelling ability.

Bob Smith’s Remembrance of Things I Forgot is a delightful, moving portrait of a man who is given the rare opportunity to literally revisit his past, and the novel will likely be considered one of this year’s best.(less)

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May 05, 2013 Ed rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: library-book

I can't believe how much I loved this book! I couldn't put it down. A fun concept brilliantly executed.

The short description: a gay man gets the chance to go back in time and make some changes to his life and the world.

So charmingly written, with a nice balance of humor, politics, observations about aging and some outright absurdity with a surprisingly solid emotional core. Interesting characters, nice dramatic tension and a thorough exploration of the possibilities.

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Sep 01, 2012 Fvck rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: read-2012

I was surprised to learn this was not a debut novel. The writing is quite amateurish and uneven, the characters flat and unfocused, and the whole thing seemed constructed quite flimsily. (The final chapters that resolve the whole time-travel issue are almost laughably opaque in their attempt to overlook gaping plotholes in the story.) I also agree wholeheartedly with the narrator's progressive politics, but the scatching political rants injected into what is effectively a piece of queer pop fluf...more

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Feb 09, 2013 Jonathan rated it 5 of 5 stars

I'm only one chapter into this, and I'm already obsessed...
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A few of my fav authors (Edmund White & Christopher Bram) blurbed this book, describing it as unique, and it truly is. Touching, funny, unexpected. It's smart and actually sort of profound, but it also strikes this conversational tone. It explores lots of stuff I've been thinking about recently : facing our mistakes, moving beyond regret, growing apart in relationships, self-acceptance. By using time travel as a device to explore...more

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Jan 27, 2012 Proustitute rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012, american-literature, contemporary-fiction

From the acknowledgments:

"The first person I want to thank is Michael Carroll, who read a time-travel short story I'd written and told me, 'I think this should be a novel.'"

I strongly disagree. This would have been a fine short story, and Smith writes really well, with an acerbic sense of humor that is actually funny. But the relentless digressions and left-wing politics, jokes, and even Dick Cheney showing up with a gun and stalking the narrator into the past—well, it was all a bit too much. Th...more

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Mar 10, 2012 Andrew Porteus rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: gay-lesbian-bisexual, science-fiction-fantasy

Hilarious book about a gay Democratic guy sent back in time by Dick Cheney in order to change events, so that ultimately his actions end up sending the Bush/Cheney team to the White House. His interactions with his mother, his younger self, the younger George Bush & both Dick Cheneys become quite complex, and forces him to examine all of his beliefs and values. Some heatwarming moments, especially when he realizes the effect he has had on his sister. Well recommended.

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Jun 08, 2011 Ryan rated it 4 of 5 stars

This book provides a very fun and exciting time-traveling adventure. The mix of politics and action/adventure is original, and it works. I would have preferred more of a character drama, but I didn't write the book. Poignant and funny, I highly recommend this read.

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Jan 19, 2013 David Fiore rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: time-travel-fiction

some brilliant set pieces (including the unforgettable tableau of Dick-Cheney-of-2006 waterboarding Dick-Cheney-of-1986) and a very amusing first-person narrator, but ultimately a little too scattershot to add up to more than just a moderately above-average time travel novel

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