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Willis, Blackout (2010)
Willis, All Clear (2010)
These two titles are best treated as one, for they form a continuous narrative with a break point that appears arbitrary. To call this two-volume set Willis’s magnum opus is to upset any expectations we might have had were we to have been sent back to the 1990s and observed the advent of Doomsday Book, a roughly 225K-word epic that would seem to have set the high point, quantitatively at least, for almost any writer’s career. But, had we stuck aroun ...more
Willis, All Clear (2010)
These two titles are best treated as one, for they form a continuous narrative with a break point that appears arbitrary. To call this two-volume set Willis’s magnum opus is to upset any expectations we might have had were we to have been sent back to the 1990s and observed the advent of Doomsday Book, a roughly 225K-word epic that would seem to have set the high point, quantitatively at least, for almost any writer’s career. But, had we stuck aroun ...more
I feel a bit used. I've listened to the audiobook performed by Katherine Kellgren and apart from her over enunciating "pAAAsengers" she did several different types of British accents extremely well. Well enough that the boring characters in this book came to life. The banal things they overcome when things are going right for them, such as a character desperately seeking a black skirt or she'll get fired from her department store job. In an ideal world, these time travelling historians never go
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I'm torn about this book. The concept was lovely. Historians going back in time and needing to know and research every tiny detail to avoid bombs, death etc I had a good time for the first half and I was surprised how much tension the author was able to create, non-stop, every chapter. But after a while... it was just repetitive. This would have been a great read if it was half the length (just found out this book wasn't even the entire story... Part 2 was supposed to be all one book as well...)
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Overall good, but I'm rather annoyed that this whole book ends in a cliffhanger.
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Aug 30, 2011
Flos
marked it as to-read
Sep 09, 2012
Fernando Barrocal
marked it as to-read
Apr 10, 2017
Ash
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May 04, 2017
EA Solinas
marked it as to-read
