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A wonderful story from a mediocre writer. In parts boring and repetitive (very!...ok, we get it, you have run out of toilet roll...) and other parts quite devastating, I would recommend it if you can be bothered to stick with it until its end, which is much better than the first 2/3 of the book. Ms Willis could have done with a better editor. Incidentally, my edition of the book had hardly any full stops (periods) in it. I thought it was a device of the story, but no, just terrible, terrible edi
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This book suffers from the same repetiveness as Blackout and, to a lesser extent, All Clear. It's still a decent read, and I am planning to read the next one, but it could easily have been 150 pages or so shorter. Or the ending could have been a little longer instead, since it was rushed at the end and the resolution came a little too swiftly. I had actually been thinking that the next Oxford book was going to be the continuation of this one, as All Clear was to Blackout, because there just were
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This was the first of Connie Willis's books I read, and I think I picked it up at random from a display because of the title - being a genealogist I knew what the original "Domesday Book" was. This is a fascinating time travel tale of historians going back to the plague years in medieval England. It has some of the same characters as her more recent Blackout All Clear. Highly recommended.
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