Tunnel Through TIme
Just finished reading "Tunnel Through Time" by Lester Del Rey, published by Scholastic Book Services back in 1966.
Now this will probably comes as a bit of shock the frequents readers of my reviews associated with my "Great Re-Reading Favorite Books of My Youth" Project. I did not buy my reading copy from Chamblin's Book Mine - the greatest bookstore here in Florida and the Eastern United States. I actually had to buy my reading copy off of eBay.
I first read "Tunnel Through TIme" when Mom gave me the money to buy it from the Weekly Reader Book Club. I think I can honestly say that I would always receive anywhere between six and ten books when my teachers would distribute out the books that had come in. Keep in mind that all the books were usually under a dollar. And keep in mind that my teachers greatly disapproved of all the science fiction books I would buy and read. Oh, there were a few science books in the mix from time-to-time.
Now because the current "Woke Culture" that is so whiny and pervasive currently - if the thought of reading about two heterosexual cis-gendered teenage young
men who travel through time with actual guns to rescue a missing scientist lost 80 million years in the past is going to trigger you, perhaps you should not read this review, let alone the book.
When Bob Miller discovers that his father - a physics professor at the university - has invented a time machine that bridges the past and present through means of an artificially generated rainbow doorway, he tries to sneak along when Dr. Tom, a paleontologist and multimillionaire, who funded the research and development of the rainbow doorway time machine into the past to see dinosaurs. Dr. Miller stops his son, but is soon forced to send Bob and Pete - Dr. Tom's son - back into the past in order to rescue or recover Dr. Tom.
Lester Del Rey wrote a thrilling adventure story about the perils of time travel and does touch upon the impact time travel can have. Curiously enough, I had forgotten - SPOILER ALERT - that Bob actually uses his gun to kill a man who was about to attack and kill him, Pete, and Dr. Tom. Bob rightfully has no regrets about his actions. It was either kill or be killed.
Curiously, Bob believes that after his adventure traveling through time will never happen again. It's just to dangerous and filled with too many unknowns - and he's a bit haunted by the knowledge of the young girl he knew 20,000 years in the past has been dead for countless centuries.
"Tunnel Through TIme" has held up very well and is only a tiny bit dated.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
TEN STARS!
https://www.amazon.com/Tunnel-Through...
Now this will probably comes as a bit of shock the frequents readers of my reviews associated with my "Great Re-Reading Favorite Books of My Youth" Project. I did not buy my reading copy from Chamblin's Book Mine - the greatest bookstore here in Florida and the Eastern United States. I actually had to buy my reading copy off of eBay.
I first read "Tunnel Through TIme" when Mom gave me the money to buy it from the Weekly Reader Book Club. I think I can honestly say that I would always receive anywhere between six and ten books when my teachers would distribute out the books that had come in. Keep in mind that all the books were usually under a dollar. And keep in mind that my teachers greatly disapproved of all the science fiction books I would buy and read. Oh, there were a few science books in the mix from time-to-time.
Now because the current "Woke Culture" that is so whiny and pervasive currently - if the thought of reading about two heterosexual cis-gendered teenage young
men who travel through time with actual guns to rescue a missing scientist lost 80 million years in the past is going to trigger you, perhaps you should not read this review, let alone the book.
When Bob Miller discovers that his father - a physics professor at the university - has invented a time machine that bridges the past and present through means of an artificially generated rainbow doorway, he tries to sneak along when Dr. Tom, a paleontologist and multimillionaire, who funded the research and development of the rainbow doorway time machine into the past to see dinosaurs. Dr. Miller stops his son, but is soon forced to send Bob and Pete - Dr. Tom's son - back into the past in order to rescue or recover Dr. Tom.
Lester Del Rey wrote a thrilling adventure story about the perils of time travel and does touch upon the impact time travel can have. Curiously enough, I had forgotten - SPOILER ALERT - that Bob actually uses his gun to kill a man who was about to attack and kill him, Pete, and Dr. Tom. Bob rightfully has no regrets about his actions. It was either kill or be killed.
Curiously, Bob believes that after his adventure traveling through time will never happen again. It's just to dangerous and filled with too many unknowns - and he's a bit haunted by the knowledge of the young girl he knew 20,000 years in the past has been dead for countless centuries.
"Tunnel Through TIme" has held up very well and is only a tiny bit dated.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
TEN STARS!
https://www.amazon.com/Tunnel-Through...
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