Time and Again by Jack Finney Audiobook
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Finally on audio -- i of the well-nigh dearest tales of our time!
Science fiction, mystery, a passionate love story, and a detailed history of Old New York alloy together in Jack Finney's spellbinding story of a beau enlisted in a hush-hush Government experiment.
Transported from the mid-twentieth century to New York Metropolis in the twelvemonth 1882, Si Morley walks the fashionable "Ladies' Mile" of Broadway, is enchanted past the jingling sleigh bells in Fundamental Park, and solves a 20th-century mystery past discovering its 19th-century roots. Falling in love with a beautiful young woman, he ultimately finds himself forced to choose between his lives in the nowadays and the past.
A story that will remain in the listener's retentivity, Time and Again is a remarkable blending of the troubled nowadays and a nostalgic by, made vivid and extraordinarily moving by the images of a fourth dimension that was...and perchance even so is.
About the author
Jack Finney (1911–1995) was the writer of the much-loved and critically acclaimed novel Fourth dimension and Again, every bit well every bit its sequel, From Fourth dimension to Fourth dimension. All-time known for his thrillers and science fiction, a number of his books—including Invasion of the Body Snatchers—have been made into movies.
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Fantastic ending. Starts out a bit slow and picks up steam throughout. The leap of imagination for time travel is rather reasonable. Very enjoyable read.
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Read this a long time ago. A wonderful story. Enjoyed it even more this time.
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Fascinating if you are interested in New York City in the 1880's. Too much description for me and not enough story line. If y'all can arrive past the first three quarters of the book, then the story line picks upwardly and the descriptions drop off.
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TIME AND AGAIN has been touted as the time travel novel to read. While I found a lot to similar in it, and I thought information technology was compelling historical fiction, I did non ultimately think it was a great book nigh fourth dimension travel. Si is working an unfulfilling job at an advertising agency in New York Metropolis when he receives an offer to join a mysterious government project. After that attention-grabbing hook, though, the story gain very slowly. It takes so long to explicate the time travel process that when it finally is revealed, information technology seems laughably simple and somewhat absurd, as if Si is merely going to wish himself into the past. He does manage to travel to 1880s New York, which Finney describes in corking and convincing detail. These facts of ordinary life in a different age are interesting, simply only to a bespeak (probably more so for those who are very familiar with New York City). They also tiresome the story downwards to a crawl. I particularly didn't care for Finney'southward romanticization of the past, in the phonation of his main grapheme, toward the cease of the novel. Every time has committed its own crimes against humanity. The late 1800s were certainly no golden age, when yous consider kid labor, the unequal status of minorities and women, and the farthermost poverty of some with no social safety internet -- a facet of the time that Finney explores in the novel. In many means, the 1970s are immeasurably better, so it seems naive to presume that the people of the earlier historic period were somehow more "existent" or "live." This is a personal bugaboo, but it bothered me bothered me quite a flake when I was reading the novel.When Finney does finally become effectually to the meat of his story, things go very heady very quickly. At that place'southward a devastating fire, a police chase, a sugariness romance, a conspiracy, a mystery to be solved and, of class, leaps about in time. I just wish those events had made upward more of the meat of the novel.
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Mr favorite New York City novel. I e'er think of it when walking in Fundamental Park after a fresh snowfall, particularly if there's a horse clip-clopping along the park drive cartoon a carriage.
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Classic time travel story that evokes the era with drawings and photos and then that its existent. The fourth dimension travel is based on the notion of a gestalt switch of seeing/feeling the era. Exploration is corrupted past a Political effort to dispense the past to suit USA interests(so what'southward new!) This is stopped simply at a toll. I of the most memorable SF books read and equally far equally techie activity as y'all can become
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