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Ok this one has been sitting around for a while and I decided to push ahead and finish it. Now I don't think I am a shallow reader however I will have to admit that I read this book on the strength of the cover - I am a HUGE fan of Michael Whelans' work (he has the ability to mesh the fantastic with the photo realistic so that you know that they are fantasy but still you cannot stop yourself from believing the - after all he created the image of the gunslinger out of the Dark tower series!), and
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I particularly enjoyed the range of strong characters. The child was no less believable that the adult protagonists. (Sometimes I wonder what kind of child an author was since everyone should be writing about this from first hand experience.)
The background themes matched my experiences well.
From graduate student through politically motivated professors in constant confrontation this is academia, read in truth but with a few red claws, too. This parallels the real difficulty of doing research whe ...more
The background themes matched my experiences well.
From graduate student through politically motivated professors in constant confrontation this is academia, read in truth but with a few red claws, too. This parallels the real difficulty of doing research whe ...more
Well, if there's anyone who is going to make time-travel tedious and boring, it'll be Oxford historians. Long arguments of which department is in charge of what, the filling out of forms in triplicate, attempted/missed phone calls and documenting who spoke to whom and when. TEDIOUS. Too many pages dealing with all that and not enough with our time-traveler heroine back in the middle ages.
If we ever do invent time travel, let's not put the Oxford History Department in charge. ...more
If we ever do invent time travel, let's not put the Oxford History Department in charge. ...more
I own this book and am re-reading it. It is a time-travel book that manages to focus on the Middle Ages (I love that period--I had another life at that time, I swear!) at the same time that it reveals in a hysterical fashion the pettiness of academics. The other thing that is cool is that Connie Willis lives in Greeley . . . .
I really enjoyed this book...up until the end. I won't spoil the book or ending for anyone, so I won't say what really annoyed me. I did like the back and forth between the plague and the "present" day and Kivrin's time in the past, but the end just killed it for me...
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one of my favorites. time travel...the plague
Feb 06, 2008
Elyse
marked it as to-read
Nov 24, 2009
Gaijinmama
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Apr 09, 2010
Celeste
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Apr 16, 2010
Jeffrey
marked it as own-but-not-read
Nov 04, 2011
Beth Tabler
marked it as to-read
Oct 08, 2014
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